GALIT BARAK

A multidisciplinary designer & jeweler working in both conceptual & commercial fields. Her artistic practice explores political themes through the human body, creating wearable objects that emphasize movement and often incorporate performance. Simultaneously, she lead a commercial jewelry career specializing in the design and production of fine & fashion jewelry using gold, diamonds, silver, and mixed materials combining craftsmanship with a distinctive visual language, concept development, and art direction for lifestyle and craft brands.

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021 - Present - OAK AND LUNA, Tenengroup Ltd, Tel Aviv
Jewelry design and product development of personalized jewelry

  • Designing in-house factory-manufactured jewelry: laser cutting, laser engraving, CNC milling, 3D printed casting made to order.  

  • Designing purchased jewelry: 3D modeling, creating product spec sheets, samples quality assurance.
    Factory team training.

2017 - 2024 - SHENKAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & DESIGN, Ramat Gan
Teaching fellow, Department of Jewelry Design

  • BA program course “From the Jeweler’s Workbench to the Online World.”        
    Developing conceptual project for a commercial collection, pricing and adaptation for target market, creating branding language, structuring e-commerce website.  

  • Summer training          
    Basic goldsmith techniques of precious metal processing: sewing, forming, soldering, and polishing.

2015 – 2020 - CONTOUR STUDIO LTD, Tel Aviv
Co-founder, Jewelry Designer

  • Designing two commercial collections annually: concept development, target population, trends, price points, and creating a line of samples.  

  • Art direction: concept and distinctive visual language development, production, styling, and casting; creation of campaigns for the brand's collections, visuals for social media promotions.

  • Managing the production of fashion, silver, and gold jewelry; raw materials acquisition (precious and semi-precious stones, diamonds); producing for private and wholesale clients locally and abroad; managing suppliers' liaison.

  • Sales management of the brand's four stores; 3 online and 1 in-studio including staff management. Export to private & wholesale clients, international wholesale fairs. Administration of annual NIS.2 million budget.

  • Marketing and organic promotion, creating sponsored campaigns across social media.

2013 - 2021 - GROW: E-commerce
Consultancy and mentoring for designers and artists

  • Set up, operation, and marketing of online brand stores on Etsy and Shopify for ceramics, wood, fashion, textiles, and industrial design. Building work plans, setup of e-commerce websites and infrastructures, product photography, product optimization, SEO, export and international shipping, organic and sponsored promotion on social media.

  • Focused study lectures at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Bezalel Academy, Holon Institute of Technology, Studio 6B, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, “Iskit” women entrepreneurship program.

  • Etsy & Pinterest Marketing workshops at Mati Business Development centers and privet courses.

2008 – 2015 - FORMA JEWELRY
Founder and designer

  • Designing silver, gemstones, and enamel collections: concept development, adaptation for target market, development, and production of samples.

  • In-studio and online sales: local and international, private and wholesale clients

  • Production management, raw materials acquisition.

  • Organic promotion and social media content creation.  

Additional expirience
2013 - O-Shan Studio, Tel Aviv: jewelry production and assembly. 

2013 - Studio Inbar Shahak, Ma’agan Michael: jewelry production and assembly

2012 - Meller Designs, London, UK: jewelry design internship for Next, Fat Face, Marks & Spencer.

 

EDUCATION, COURSES & WORKSHOPS

2025 - Student exchange programm Shih Chien University, Taipi, Taiwan

2024 - Present - Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Master of Industrial Design

2009 - 2013 - Shenkar College of Engineering and Design Bachelor of Design (B. Des.), Jewelry Design

2013 - Maya Landau Marketing Course (40 hours)

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

2025 - Piece of Peace, Wearhouse, Munich Jewelry week, Munich

2025 - IX Muestra, Museo Nacional De Artes Decorativas, Museo Cerralbo, Madrid, Spain

2025 - Generation, 25 years for the Jewelry Design Dept. at Shenkar College, Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2024 - Unchained, Galerie Lewis, Quebec, Canada

2024 - Jewellery and Freedom, Tincal Lab, Porto, Portugal

2024 - Goosebumps, Plattform Schmuckkunst, Graz, Austria

2024 - Personal Narrative Spaces, Art Mill and Old Artists Colony, Szentendre and Hybridart Space Gallery Budapest, Hungary

2014 - The Contemporary Jewelry Exchange, Olga Raben

2014 - METALLOphone: Personally, (AV 17) Gallery, Vilniaus, Lithuania

2014 - Fresh Design, Fresh Paint, Tel Aviv, Israel

2014 - Joya, Barcelona, Spain

2013 - Joya, Barcelona, Spain

2013 - Klimt02, the international journal of contemporary jewelry

2013 - International Biennale for Jewelry, Beijing, China

2013 - Graduates’ Exhibition, Shenkar College's Department of Jewelry Design, The Diamond Museum, Ramat Gan, Israel

2012 - Fashion Jewelry, Shenkar College's Department of Jewelry Design

2012 - Publication in the book “Showcase 500 Rings”, published by Lark Crafts

2011 - Jovella, Expo Tel Aviv, Shenkar College's Department of Jewelry Design pavilion

2011 - Enterfashion, Israel Fashion Week, Design Museum, Holon

2011 - Jewel & Color 7, Gallerina, Bat Shlomo, Israel

ENTREPRENEURSHIP DURING ACADEMIC STUDIES

2012 - 2014 - Shenkar College's Department of Jewelry Design: social media Public Relations set up, development and management

2013 - Shenkar College's Department of Jewelry Design: “Nonobject Group” final projects catalog.

2011 – 2013 - Shenkar College's Department of Jewelry Design: setup, development, and design of a series of lectures by jewelry designers under the title “Jewelry Talks.”

COMPETITIONS AND PRIZES

2016 - 2017 - Finalist (Contour Studio), The Future of Fashion Program by Not Just a Label X Premiere Class, Paris, France

2016 - Finalist (Contour Studio), The Future of Fashion Program by Not Just a Label X Capsule, New York, U.S.A

2013 - Finalist in Enjoia’t, Barcelona, Spain

2013 - Leah Kaplan Prize for Enamel, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design

2013 - H. Stern Prize for Excellence, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design

 

SKILLS

Software
Rhino +++++
Photoshop +++++
Illustrator ++++
InDesign +++
Premier +++
Office +++++

Hard Skills
Goldsmithing +++++
Model Making +++++
Casting ++++
Rapid prototyping +++++
Knit & Crochet ++++
Painting & Drawing +++++
Sculpting +++++
Photography ++++

LANGUAGES

Hebrew | Full professional proficiency (Mother tongue)

English | Full professional proficiency