Sunday 30 January 2011

CLASSIC ROCK readers,WELCOME to CRAZY PIG DESIGNS

As an introduction to CRAZY PIG DESIGNS I thought I might
as well start with the world best known SKULL RING.
I called it the LARGE EVIL SKULL back in the early 80's
I designed it originally for myself but soon I had a lot of enquiries
and the first wearers of the EVIL SKULL included
KEITH RICHARDS, JAMES HETHFIELD, CLIFF BURTON
and followed over the years by many more like
FAITH NO MORE, THE CULT,JOE PERRY,BILLY IDOL
IGGY POP, BILLY GIBBONS,SCOTT WEILAND, SLASH
RICK NIELSEN, ERIC CLAPTON,

Over the years I have made many variations of the original
EVIL SKULL RING
We have three different sizes at present to choose from
as shown on here.
I also made a LIMITED EDITION , KEITH RICHARD SKULL RING
( the first 25 or so went to the ROLLING STONES)  but these are completely SOLD OUT.
There's a LIMITED EDITION ANNIVERSARY EVIL SKULL
from our online store.
The EVIL SKULL RING is actually one item only out of over 1000 designs
to choose from.

The EVIL SKULL is probably the most copied skull ring in the world
but there's only one REAL ONE from the ORIGINAL DESIGNER ( ARMAND SERRA)
made from the ORIGINAL PROTOTYPE and first generation MOULD.
only available  at CRAZY PIG DESIGNS.

For more information on CRAZY PIG DESIGNS see VIP section and
prvious blogs.
WELCOME to the world of CRAZY PIG DESIGNS
Rock & Roll jewellery

Thursday 27 January 2011

CRAZY PIG DESIGNS and STUSSY

One of the first Limited Edition ring that I made was for the famous brand STUSSY.
They approached  me with some ideas for the design
They wanted a very chunky silver ring
with a roman profile on one side and of
course the logo STUSSY on the opposite site
They wanted the ring to look like an ancient roman ring.

Above: first prototype
Here's some of the artwork supplied by STUSSY as the basic idea.
STUSSY advert in fashion magazine (below)

Other LIMITED EDITIONS  rings  over the years have included
KEITH RICHARDS SKULL ring
Only 365 were made and the firts 25 were assigned to the ROLLING STONES.

PLANET OF THE APES for the NIGO of BATHING APE clothing brand

and JAMES LAVELLE UNKLE rings

Sunday 23 January 2011

SKULL logo a.k.a.GOMEZ history

CRAZY PIG DESIGNS logo is known has GOMEZ
Here's a little backgroung of how it came about
While I was working in the mid eighties as a jeweller
in Carnaby street I also indulge in my first passion
of playing lead guitar.The band was called PANAMA
( I wanted to call it CRAZY PIG but no one in the band
liked the name).I designed a logo fpr PANAMA
it was at first a grinning skull with bones but with hands and feet
to give it an amusing twist.The new singer in the band wore a top hat
on stage so we added a top hat to our logo
Finally we added a JACKSON guitar , because I got and
endorsement with Jackson /Charvel guitars.
The band was really a great hard rock band but as always
the manager took most of the money and weended up broke.
As I had been making jewellery for about 10 years
I decided to concentrate on jewellery designing and this is why
the store is named CRAZY PIG DESIGNS
and GOMEZ is the shop mascot
Before you can call yourself  ROCK & ROLL jeweller
you really need to know a thing or two about Rock & roll.


Friday 14 January 2011

PLATINUM TUDOR SKULLS RING with BLACK DIAMONDS EYES

Here's one of our latest SPECIAL ORDER
just collected by a customer last week.
Sometimes we have no time to organise
a photo shoot for some items, as they leave
the shop as soon as ready
So we quickly snapped this one...

Thursday 13 January 2011

MICKEY ROURKE in the movie SPUN wearing our EYE RINGS and PENDANTS

Over the years we had the pleasure to make jewellery
for some of the most notorious bad boys of Rock
But here's a few shots from the movie SPUN
featuring the best of the bad boys in the film industry.
We sent two eyes rings and one eye pendant
to him in the US , and we were please to see that he
 decided to wear all of them for the movie "SPUN"
He also has been wearing on occasion our
classic Evil skull ring

Here's the details of the items worn by Mickey on these pictures
4 CLAWS EYE RING is code number 4 on our online store
SMALL EYE RING is number 538
BALL EYE pendant is number 539
EVIL SKULL RING is number 27 ( not shown on these pictures)

Thursday 6 January 2011

NEW SILVER FEATHER pendant fron CRAZY PIG DESIGNS

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our customers
Here's the first new design of 2011
it s called Large LOUVRES FEATHER
While visiting the LOUVRES museum in PARIS
I took various photos of statues with wings
and I was  really amazed by the details and how
each feather was completely different from the next.

I decided to carve a large three dimentional  single feather pendant following
one of the pictures I had taken and I will soon be making two more
in smaller sizes.

This new item is not available online yet , but will be added soon,
In the meantime you still can purchase in store or call customer service

Tuesday 4 January 2011

SLASH wearing CRAZY PIG DESIGNS

GOOD START OF THE YEAR with SLASH
Wearing our SOLID SKULL PENDANT.

In the latest issue of CLASSIC ROCK
special edition on JIMI HENDRIX
There is a truly great DVD titled
JIMI HENDRIX THE GUITAR HERO
This was broadcast on television in early December
Many celebrities have participated to the
documentary, SLASH, PAUL RODGERS, LEMMY
and many more
It was great to see SLASH wearing our SOLID SKULLwith
BALL CHAIN (code number 703 on our online store)
SCOTT WEILAND and MATT SORUM have
also been regulars at CRAZY PIG for quite some times...

Saturday 1 January 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS around the world

We at CRAZY PIG DESIGNS are  starting a fresh new year with loads of new plans. ideas ,
 and already working on great new designs.
We will reopen on the 4TH of JANUARY after a well deserved break.
Our Online store was not interupted between the 24th of December and now ,
so we will start shipping orders again later on this week.
So if you missed the deadline at CHRISTMAS, no worries!
Be assured that even a late present is always welcome,
specially from CRAZY PIG DESIGNS.

Our latest design; The Large  LOUVRES FEATHER was finished two
days before Christmas and were SOLD OUT by the 24t th of DECEMBER
It s a really beautiful SILVER feather pendant, and I am planning to make two more
very soon in different sizes .

HAPPY NEW YEAR
Armand
signing of from CPD central