While I studied at the School of Jewellery in Birmingham, in my final year I took part in a competition that was designing a medal for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth games. For my medal design I looked at the movement 'the industrial revolution'. From that I took the shape of gears and based my medal around them. I got to the final three designs out of 180 designs that where submitted at the start of the competition and I am really proud of this accomplishment. With the gears there was another deeper meaning that I felt that the gears gave and that was that when gears are in a machine they worked together to create an end product and that is what the athletes are doing as well to get their Gold, Silver or Bronze. Also all of the gears didn't look the same because we are all not the same and I wanted them to represent all of the athletes. Throughout the different stages of the competition my design developed more which I really liked because this made me think about the design more and improve it. With my medals, I wanted them to look quite contemporary because I felt the Birmingham is becoming quite contemporary with their architecture and I wanted them to fit in with Birmingham today. I added some texture to some of the gears and they represented the CWG values as well as the pattern from the outside of Birminghams library. I am really gratefully that I got this opportunity of designing something that I wouldn't design in my day to day work and also having the opportunity to work with an organisation as big as the commonwealth games.