With the development of the world, the design of modern jewelry has changed through time. Now the design can be inspired not only by present events but also by ancient symbols and traditions. A good example of recent events that have inspired jewelry designers is the first atomic bomb leading to a massive increase of starburst designs and sprays of diamonds.
 
Ancient traditions can be found in the designs of vintage jewelry, spiritual jewelry with kabala symbols, tribal designs, amulets for protection and sacred talismans. The day or night time also has its influence on these designs being gold as the preferred metal for daytime jewelry and diamonds for the evening or night.

When designing modern gold jewelry that will be worn mainly during the daytime, designers usually prefer Florentine finishes, mesh and foxtail or similar chains. In the fifties the chain of cultivated pearls was very popular amongst the modern jewelry designers. In the sixties, famous for its very colorful history gave birth to hybrid jewelry designs and women also started to wear silver jewelry, gemstones and geode crystals alongside the more traditional diamonds, gold and platinum. The flower Power era inspired the jewelry designers to create brilliant cuts for the diamonds like organic or abstract and jagged shapes. Some designers even started to use regular metals in their designs.

Trendy jewelry are known to change very often so in the seventies the jewelry designs were influenced and inspired by the blooming of feminism and the women’s movement. This lead to a complete different type of jewelry designs. Women started to have a major influence on the design jewelry because they expressed their likes and dislikes.

Jewelry started to look as they wanted by incorporating new materials like wood, ivory, rock crystals and coral.

And when time goes on, people became more affluent and so modern designer jewelry took another turn and veered to the more glamorous, glitzy as well sparkling style of jewelry, and when Princess Diana wedded, there was a noticeable shift to elegance and also grace in the modern designer jewelry of this time.

When we entered the new millennium modern jewelry designers started to use even more materials in their creations to make them even look more special and unique.