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Fast 50- East Bay Business Times, September 11, 2008
Today, the 2008 East Bay Business Times Fast 50 list was released, and Melissa Joy Manning, Inc.is ranked 15on the list of the fastest growing private companies in the East Bay. Read more...
Melissa Joy Manning Inc. Sustainability Statement, 2008
We have been receiving an increasing number of inquiries from retailers and consumers regarding our sustainability practices, particularly the sourcing of conflict-free diamonds. We appreciate and applaud our customers for asking these questions, as we believe that challenging retailers and producers to be more aware of the impact that their products have on the environment and communities is ultimately what will drive real industry change. Read more...
Pretty Fabulous: Melissa Joy Manning-Bussbuss.com,July 16, 2008
Do love jewelry as much as we do, but aren't exactly a fan of in-your-face glamazon bling?
Then you'll likely love Melissa Joy Manning's treasures as much as we do.
The California designer seductively melds the modern with the traditional, the rough with the pretty, the unexpected with the organic. Read more...
MJM Puts the Joy Back in Jewelry-Canvasandclover.com, July 11, 2008
By: Courtney Carlisle
Few things are worse than finding a special piece of jewelry that your heart gives a little leap for only to find out that 1. someone else has it and looks better in it than you or 2. it isn’t eco-friendly, sensitive or slightly eco-savvy.
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Melissa Joy Mannning: Luxe, Eco-Friendly Jewelry-Your Daily Thread.com, June 20, 2008
By: Connie Wu
Bay Area native Melissa Joy Manning’s passion is making beautiful jewelry, and we love her elegant pieces even more for being environmentally-responsible. Influenced by indigenous and non-Western cultures, her handmade designs incorporate gold and silver with semi-precious and precious stones, as well as found objects.
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GreenGirlGuide Loves Melissa Joy Manning-Ecostiletto.com, June 2008
By: Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Get ready to drool.
Melissa Joy Manning designs jewelry using 100% recycled metals and conflict-free, responsibly sourced stones. The company initiated a Green Certification Process that focuses on waste reduction and recycling, energy and water conservation and pollution prevention. Their mission statement reads as follows: “We believe that challenging retailers and producers to be more aware of the impact that their products have on the environment and communities is ultimately what will drive real industry change.” Obviously, we have stumbled upon a Green Girl Extraordinaire.
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Melissa Joy Manning interviewed in Flashfilm.com, June 2008
Q1 What was your best experience in designing jewelry?
Recently I had the pleasure of custom designing an engagement ring for a young chef in San Francisco. He was a joy to work with- so thoughtful and purposeful in his choices. In the end he ended up selecting a gorgeous yellow and red diamond slice set in 18 karat red gold. His attention to detail and desire to choose something unique allowed me to create something truly special. After asking his fiancé to marry him he emailed me to thank me- telling me how much our joint design process had meant to him. Designing an heirloom ring that the couple will always treasure was a truly humbling and wonderful experience.
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Inner City 100, Inc. Magazine, May 2008
Today, the 2008 ICIC-Inc. Magazine Inner City 100 list was released, and Melissa Joy Manning, Inc. is ranked #18 on the list of the fastest growing inner-city companies in America. Extraordinary growth is the predominant trait of the 2008 Inner City 100, a ranking created by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Inc. Magazine of the 100 fastest-growing businesses in inner city communities nationwide.
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JCK Online: Style360
Must Have: Melissa Joy Manning
February, 2008
True Yogis spent their lives marking different occasions in their physical and spiritual practice by adding charms to their sacred necklaces. Vintage photographs show yogis wearing traditional loin cloths, layered in these charm necklaces.
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Melissa Joy Manning: Jewelry Business Shines-SF Business Times, August 2006
Naysayers take note. Melissa Joy Manning is not listening. Manning founded her West Oakland jewelry business about 10 years ago, after getting fired from a succession of jobs.
"Everyone was telling me, "You can't make a living as an artist," Manning said. "I said, ‘I don't believe you;'".
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Melissa Joy Manning Jewelry-Oakland Magazine, June 2006
Growing up in Alameda, Oakland-based jewelry maker Melissa Joy Manning always had creative vision. She crafted her first piece (a ceramic bead necklace) in preschool and studied jewelry design at San Francisco State University, but was told she could never make a living in the arts. After trying numerous "traditional" jobs ("I took several waitressing jobs, but I kept getting fired"), Manning knew she was destined for something else.
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Trends & Views: Hot, New & Noteworthy
by Dena Smolek
With the launch of a new 18-karat gold collection, Melissa Joy Manning will enjoy continued success. Her company has experienced unprecedented growth in the past few years, with no sign of slowing down. She has 12 trade shows scheduled for 2007, including stops in L.A., New York, Paris and London. Manning is a San Francisco Bay Area native but recently relocated to New York City. She plans to open a showroom in New York but the production team will remain in the San Francisco Bay Area. "We're expanding into Europe," she explains. "So it just makes sense for me to be in New York."
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How to become a fashion czar, rock star chef, celeb DJ or writer for the Daily Show made really, really simple.-Jane, Feb 2006
Ever wonder how people with dream jobs got started? Our own Katy McColl's new book, Should I Do What I Love? (Or Do What I Do—So I Can Do What I Love on the Side), includes success stories of 30 people with super-cool jobs. We've excerpted it here in case your college counselor didn't tell you how to get Jon Stewart's attention.
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No Sweat: Companies Bet on Living Wage-Xpress Magazine, June 2005
The din of jewelers' hammers pounding away on anvils competes with the sounds of Beck, The Shins, and Violent Femmes blaring from the radio. There are six work stations in the front half of this old firehouse in West Oakland. Five of seven artists in their twenties and thirties can be found at any given time laughing and talking as they work. At their stations, the artists cut and shave gold and silver. They polish druzy agate and other precious gems. They solder metal and wrap it around vintage tiger claws from the Himalayas. They place finished earrings and necklaces in tiny Ziploc bags.
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Non-Western influence
by Melissa Joy Manning
I have always felt compelled to honor the histories of our ancestors. The tradition of tribal craft has forever inspired me. My original collection (designed in 1997) incorporated teeth and bone and was influenced by Non-Western Culture. It is said that when you take an animal you are to honor ALL parts of it. In using teeth, claws and fur, tribes were giving thanks to the spirit of an animal for giving its life for their survival. They also believed that wearing the relics of a killed animal imbued the spirit of the animal into the wearer- carrying its spirit into the future while simultaneously imbuing the aspects of that animal's spirit into the wearer.
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Stone energy & settings
by Melissa Joy Manning
Stones hold an inherent value not only in monetary worth but in meaning. For example, Agates promote strength, Cavancite aids in intuition and Labradorite enhances faith. However, the elemental value of a stone is lost when it is not worn in direct contact with the skin. With this precept in mind, we have recently incorporated a dynamic opening within all of our designs so that the healing energy of our selected stones can benefit the wearer.
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Interview with Art Effect
Each of the stones I use is unique. Unlike cut gems, no two are alike; it is the diversity of shape and originality of color that make each of the stones I use interesting, collectible and engaging. I am intrigued by the history of objects. Using metamorphic stones in my work, I am bringing nature to the wearer. Dreusies and Agates are formed in beautiful occurrences; they encapsulate the history of the earth's development- lightning storms, plate drifts, volcanic eruptions, even asteroid landings. It is this knowledge, that I am holding a piece of nature's history in my hands, which impels me to make jewelry of these stones.
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