3B Design Era Moodboard
Brief:Choose a design era you find interesting, collect a variety of images from the era to represent its aesthetic, and make a full-colour, double-sided, portrait A4 page for a design textbook, including key points and design vocabulary to describe the era.
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Here a professional design moodboard shows the Midcentury Modern aesthetic. Key points and sources are on the back of the moodboard.
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Click above to watch your professor walk you through the making of a moodboard, including the research and design!
Full Instructions
1. Choose a design era. It may be one of the Pinterest Design Eras you have already chosen, or you may pick another one from the Timeline link here.
2. Use Pinterest, Google, and any other online or offline resources to find 10 - 20 images which represent the aesthetic of that era.
3. Take notes or make your own observations about the key points / vocabulary of the era. You should not copy other writers' text directly, but try to write the ideas in your own words. You should have 4 - 6 point-form sentences (50 - 90 words) or key points which describe the aesthetic.
4. Images can be sourced from anywhere (your Pinterest Design Era sections, elsewhere online, books, magazines, photographs, etc. but must be properly credited with the URLS or other source citations! Images should show a variety of genres (fashion, interiors, architecture, art, sculpture, household products, hairstyles, food, etc.) and should also contain contemporary items (clothing, tattoos, nail art, vehicles, wedding cakes, etc.) inspired by the era, as well as objects designed in the era.
5. Create two A4 portrait layouts (front and back of the moodboard page).
6. On the front, create a collage of your images. You should have the title and date of the design era somewhere clearly on the page. Finally, add the key points and make sure they are readable.
7. On the back of the moodboard, Include your ID and Student Code. Create a clear and readable list of all references & sources, in APA referencing format. You may use additional graphics on the back of your moodboard. Online classes do not need the rubric.
ONLINE CLASSES: Post the full-colour digital versions of the front and the back to your Pinterest board; paste the links for the images into your Portfolio. You should also add the FRONT of the poster to the Gallery.
OFFLINE CLASSES: Post the digital versions of the front and the back to your Pinterest board; print a full-colour copy in A4 portrait mode. The finished printed posters will be handed in, marked, and then collated into a class reference ‘book’ for use during the semester.
2. Use Pinterest, Google, and any other online or offline resources to find 10 - 20 images which represent the aesthetic of that era.
3. Take notes or make your own observations about the key points / vocabulary of the era. You should not copy other writers' text directly, but try to write the ideas in your own words. You should have 4 - 6 point-form sentences (50 - 90 words) or key points which describe the aesthetic.
4. Images can be sourced from anywhere (your Pinterest Design Era sections, elsewhere online, books, magazines, photographs, etc. but must be properly credited with the URLS or other source citations! Images should show a variety of genres (fashion, interiors, architecture, art, sculpture, household products, hairstyles, food, etc.) and should also contain contemporary items (clothing, tattoos, nail art, vehicles, wedding cakes, etc.) inspired by the era, as well as objects designed in the era.
5. Create two A4 portrait layouts (front and back of the moodboard page).
6. On the front, create a collage of your images. You should have the title and date of the design era somewhere clearly on the page. Finally, add the key points and make sure they are readable.
7. On the back of the moodboard, Include your ID and Student Code. Create a clear and readable list of all references & sources, in APA referencing format. You may use additional graphics on the back of your moodboard. Online classes do not need the rubric.
ONLINE CLASSES: Post the full-colour digital versions of the front and the back to your Pinterest board; paste the links for the images into your Portfolio. You should also add the FRONT of the poster to the Gallery.
OFFLINE CLASSES: Post the digital versions of the front and the back to your Pinterest board; print a full-colour copy in A4 portrait mode. The finished printed posters will be handed in, marked, and then collated into a class reference ‘book’ for use during the semester.
TEACHER MODELS |
STUDENT EXEMPLARS |
You can see that the images match the keywords, with the colours and forms of the old dynasty Egyptian aesthetic consistently depicted and described. The sentences should give us an idea of the style even without the photos; adding the images helps us see the look even more clearly.
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Digital examples don't have to worry about ink or printing costs, so they can often be even more dramatic than printed moodboards! Here you see a lovely example of design, using strong triangular shapes in layout, careful image sourcing and good key points. Fauvism is primarily a painterly aesthetic, but this student did a good job of finding not just paintings but clothing, food, a house, and even a wedding done in fauvist fashion. I'm looking for a few more examples for full points, so make sure you have enough variety in your boards! |
Hint: If you are not a designer / not familiar with Photoshop, you might want to go to this page and watch this video, from 13:00 minutes onward. In this video I take you through how I create a 'foodboard' (food-themed moodboard) step by step, using MS Paint, a very simple program available on every Windows computer.
USEFUL LINKS:
If you don't have Adobe Photoshop, you can still make an attractive moodboard!
How to Create Moodboards - you don't have to use the free Milanote software to get lots of great ideas (and more great links) from this well-written article.
https://spark.adobe.com/make/photo-collage-maker/ - a free online photo collage maker
FireAlpaca - a free imaging/painting software you can use as a budget PS to arrange images (Windows / Mac)
https://www.photojoiner.net/collage-maker/editor - grid-style free online collage maker
Canva - another free application for creating moodboards & a walk-through for moodboards here.
Moodboards Lite - a free Apple app
If you don't have Adobe Photoshop, you can still make an attractive moodboard!
How to Create Moodboards - you don't have to use the free Milanote software to get lots of great ideas (and more great links) from this well-written article.
https://spark.adobe.com/make/photo-collage-maker/ - a free online photo collage maker
FireAlpaca - a free imaging/painting software you can use as a budget PS to arrange images (Windows / Mac)
https://www.photojoiner.net/collage-maker/editor - grid-style free online collage maker
Canva - another free application for creating moodboards & a walk-through for moodboards here.
Moodboards Lite - a free Apple app