Mood Board — An Effective Communicator in the Design Process
The practical and advanced usage of the visual tool
We had a mood board competition in our colour theory class in design school. And we were set in groups of four in a studio with a stack of fashion and interior magazines, probably outdated ones. We cut and pasted clipping the images onto foamboards with glue, tapes and glitter based on a concept and presented it with a theme and colour code. Collaboration for a common objective in a fun and creative way. This is how mood boards were first introduced to me hands-on where we hurriedly stuck it all cohesively within a time limit.
Evolution of the mood board
Mood board sets the scene temperature of the visualization. It has evolved from a scrapbook kid version to vision boards, mood boards and personalized many other various forms. Vision board is basically deciding how you want the mood of your future life to be.
Digital or physical collages can be used to present and translate the ideas into your mind in a visual format to communicate it to another person. Or to express to a group of people to share your ideas. There are many collage applications and websites where we can do mood boards. The best tools I would like to recommend is Adobe Photoshop and Pinterest. In…
