Mood boards visually illustrate ideas and concepts by collecting relevant assets like photos, fabrics, and colors. They help generate concepts for a specific style. Mood boards can be created physically with pins on a board or digitally using design software. This lesson teaches how to understand the purpose of mood boards, know how to select suitable assets, and create an electronic mood board on the theme of Great Britain or the USA including flags, colors, landmarks, people, food, and brands.

1. Mood Boards
Lesson 1

2. Lesson Goals
 Understand the purpose of a mood board
 Know how to collect suitable assets for a mood board
 Be able to create an electronic mood board
#moodboard
#assets

3. What is a moodboard?
Think about our research lessons…

4. Mood Boards
Understand purpose of mood boards
Create an electronic mood board
 Mood boards visually illustrate the
direction a new idea or concept can
take.
 A mood board is used to collect ideas
(photos, fabrics, colours) and help
generate concepts on a specific style.
 They can be made by pinning things
on a display board or using software:
 Desktop Publishing
 Image Editing
#moodboard
#assets

5. Odd One Out
One of these assets doesn’t belong with the others…

9. Assets
Understand purpose of mood boards
Create an electronic mood board
 Assets must be relevant to the
theme or topic of the mood board
you are attempting to create.
 Sometimes there may be some
very straight forward things that
could link a series of different
images together:
 Colour
 Shape
 Style
#moodboard
#assets

10. Your Task
Understand purpose of mood boards
Create an electronic mood board
 Create a mood board on the theme
of either of the following places:
 Great Britain
 USA
 Your mood board should include
relevant assets such as:
 Flag
 Colours
 Landmarks
 People
 Food
 Brands
#moodboard
#assets

11. Key Words
 Mood Board
 Visually illustrate the direction a
new idea or concept may take.
 Asset
 An object or thing (often images)
that can be used in a mood board.