Today I wanted to share a little bit about making the best Mood Board using your creativity and inspiration.
Mood boards are a fun, creative practice that can be used in several different ways, and, in the past, I shared about how to make a mood board for inspiration and how it can help create your next design!
Mood boards are essentially physical or digital collages that arrange images, materials, text, and other design elements, presenting the style, mood, textures, etc., that are intended to represent the final designโs style.
How to Make the Best Mood Board
Purpose of a Mood Board
Mood boards can serve many purposes. One is organizing the inspiration. They are a valuable resource throughout the design project to help keep the style and aesthetic consistent.
Mood boards are also an excellent way to refine a projectโs style before diving into the actual design process. Use them as prototypes in terms of resources and time and convey the final design’s look and feel.
Focus on a Theme
Mood boards can be a great visual aide but finding inspiration is one thing. Organizing it and turning it into a cohesive base for creating a design is a different thing.
One of the biggest problems is the overwhelming amount of choice out there. Stay focus on what goals or central themes are for avoiding being distracted.
Color Combinations
Have fun playing with many different color combinations. Incorporating the designโs color palette is an important part of most mood boards and can be included as swatches or incorporated into images and other design elements.
Whether you will make digital or physical mood boards, theyโre an important step in creating a cohesive design style for any project. Spending sufficient time on the mood board phase can result in a project that runs more smoothly.
One of the big advantages of creating mood boards is that there are no real โrulesโ that dictate what a mood board must include or what it must look like. This gives designers a ton of creative freedom during this phase.