Ups and Downs: Rx Ring 23

NEW! A new spin on this addictive line of hand-cast jewelry for 2011, the duo behind Cast of Vices—creative director Christopher Glancy and artisan jeweler Jay LeCompte (a.k.a. Jay the Jeweler)—have translated their coveted pharmaceuticals into porcelain. Each piece is still hand cast and finished for greater detail. The Los Angeles-based designers cast a critical eye on the culture’s obsession with self-medication and addiction, while admiring the inherent design of these substances in these effigies of the detritus that wreaks pleasure and pain in our modern world.