Digital Mood Board Template
Digitally design your mood board
Unlike traditional methods, digital mood boards leverage technology to enhance the creative process. Mood boarding software allows flexibility, ease of collaboration, and mood boarding tools that ultimately make the mood boarding process easier and more creative.
Although we're using StudioBinder’s mood board creator, the following process is universal no matter what digital mood boarding tool you are using.
Steps in this guide
Step 1
1. Create a New Mood Board
Create a new mood board to give you a clean slate for brainstorming and gathering ideas. As you look to create a digital mood board, you can explore other mood board examples to see how creatives have leveraged the digital nature to make their mood board stand out.
Platforms like Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and Behance are great resources for discovering visual inspiration.
Whether you're designing a brand aesthetic, planning an interior design project, or conceptualizing a film, it's important to start your digital mood board with a structure or process in mind.
How to do this in StudioBinder
- From the project page, select Mood Board.
- Create mood boards for every important category.
Step 2
2. Gather Images
Once you have a direction, start gathering images that capture your concept. Digital tools make it simple to pull visuals from online sources and save them directly into your mood boarding software or at least on your computer.
Don’t hesitate to include images that speak to you, even if the connection isn’t immediately clear. This step is all about exploration and feeling. After all, since you're doing this digitally, saving every image that resonates with you is much easier.
How to do this in StudioBinder
- Search the web and save images to your computer.
- Upload images to your various mood boards.
Pro Tip — Gather more images than you think you need. Eventually, you’ll edit and refine your images, but it's better to start with more materials. Luckily, digital mood-boarding platforms make collecting easy.
Step 3
3. Add Details
With the flexibility of digital platforms, consider integrating multimedia elements and details. Digital mood boarding tools make it easy to add details to contextualize your images such as text annotations, color palettes, or video clips.
How to do this in StudioBinder
- Open the image from the mood board.
- Select Edit.
- Crop, annotate, or fine tune your image settings.
Step 4
4. Arrange the Mood Board
Now that you've gathered your materials, arrange them in a way that tells a story or best communicates the concept of your project. Digital platforms provide intuitive drag-and-drop features, enabling you to experiment with layouts effortlessly.
Group images by theme, color, or any criterion that aligns with your project’s goals. The flexibility of digital lets you rearrange elements until the board embodies your vision.
How to do this in StudioBinder
- Consider "zones" to group images in proximity.
- Drag to rearrange images into a layout that tells a story.
Pro Tip — With digital mood boards, you can rearrange your layout at the touch of a button. Try a few different layouts and see what works best for your project.
Step 5
5. Collaborate & Share
One of the greatest strengths of digital mood boards is the ability to collaborate seamlessly with others. Share your mood board with colleagues, clients, or team members to gather feedback and refine the project’s direction. Digital tools often offer various sharing settings. This means you can share and control access levels and permissions for different collaborators.
How to do this in StudioBinder
- Create a View Only link or Invite Collaborators to work with you.
- Use the Comments sidebar to review feedback.
Conclusion
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Technological advancements have always been key in the progress of are and the creative process. While the tactile nature of physical mood boards still holds tremendous benefits, digital mood boards offer a level of convenience, flexibility, and collaboration that can take a creative concept even further.
This digital mood board template is one of many creative mood board templates you can use. Browse all other creative templates on our Templates page.
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