Creating a mood board is great fun and will help you be selective with the research you have gathered for your new Fashion Ideas. This is the first stage of organizing your thoughts and collected images, enabling you to channel your creative excitement toward a cohesive and targeted design outcome. Mood boards are made by arranging images and color ideas on a large board so that you can see at a glance how your designs might evolve. They vary in their complexity but, as the name suggests, mood boards should always capture the mood or flavor of your design project, as well as reflecting your target customer. In grouping your researched images you will have to make decisions about editing and prioritizing your selection, as well as confirming your season and color palette. Colors should reflect your chosen season soft pastels will suggest a summer story, for example but whatever the season, the color palette should be applied consistently throughout the project.
A successful mood board has a unique personality. It expresses the essence of the design ideas and sums up the theme as well as reflecting practical concerns such as the season and the target customer. As the board is built up, combining inspirational items with pictures from magazines and information about upcoming styles, creative themes are married with current fashion trends. In this way, mood boards provide a focus for a creative yet commercial design solution. The very act of deciding which images to include will help a designer narrow down and develop his or her ideas. As key ideas become prioritized, a clear thought process evolves and the job of producing designs then becomes much simpler. The finished mood board should tell its own distinct story – being disciplined about creating only one board per project keeps creative efforts focused.
