Mood Boards – Personalizing your bedroom with what talks to you most….

Mood boards are generally used for designers to brainstorm on thoughts or feeling before creating a look or design. A mood board is basically a collage of pictures or  inspirational ideas that help stir up emotion and creativity. Well, not all of us are designers. But we always love to create and decorate and make the spaces we live in more beautiful. I found this post on another blog and I really feel like the blogger nailed it:)! Here is it enjoy it and try one out.

As a fashion design student, I need to create a mood boards before constructing any garment. The garment doesn’t need to to look like the mood board but somehow it should have a similar vibe. The mood boards below are either school assignment of random expressions of self. Often I will chose a friend who means a lot to me and just create a mood board for her expressing our friendship though scrap paper and words.

This mood board was submitted as part of my portfolio to FIDM fashion school in LA. They wanted me to express my style and who I am as a designer in one page.

I created this mood board in 11th grade. Evidently, fashion meant just as much to me then as it does now:)

I had to do a report about social problems in the United States with a focus on Marriage and Divorce. While most students wrote up a few pages, or boringly read statistics off of a paper, I decided to get creative and put this mood board together. It literally took me hours to construct. I put so much thought into every piece of paper. When It was time for me to present it to my teacher, she looks and me and says “What is this mess??”. Clearly, she did not appreciate it at all! And I know without a doubt that I put more effort into my report that almost any other student. Oh Well, it happens…

To sum it up: Everyone has their own style with their mood boards and designs. Mine are always extremely busy. That’s just how my brain is. In class, when all the student put their boards up, mine is usually the most neat and thought out. But that’s just my style. Other students carry a much more mellow approach to mood boards and aren’t as intense. But each to their own, right?

Lets see what you can come up with. It will be like a creative writing exercise except with magazines, glue, scissor, and poster board. Let me know how it goes:)

Social Experiment for 8th Graders

I recently stumbled across a website that discusses a “social experiment” for middle aged students. Ironically, the name of the article was “Egg Baby” Parenting. Naturally, it caught my eye. In short, the experiment tests students and how they act as the “parent” of an egg for a full week. The students treat the “egg baby” as a real being. They can take the “egg baby” wherever they go, but only with utmost care. The objective of this project was to have the students experience some of the responsibility that is involved in the care of human “babies”.  At the end of the assignment, the teacher left a note which i thought was very cute:

NOTE:  "Egg Babies" may be decorated or given whatever
necessities you feel necessary to make your "baby" more
real.

Every morning before class, the teacher checks each student’s egg, making sure it had proper care and is in good condition. The rules for this experiment were very strict. If  a student’s “egg baby” is left alone without its “mother”, even for a short time, points are deducted from that students point sheet. The real parents of each student were also asked to be involved. They had to sign a paper shower their involvement and they were officially agreeing to be the “egg baby grandparents”.

At the end of the week, the student were given time to think about their week as parents and really reflect on it. They had to write up a page explaining exactly what they learnt and how they felt about it.

I really liked this experiment. I feel like it’s important for kids to understand the concept of responsibility with someone “alive” or breakable. I think this experiment would be slightly less effective for students who have younger siblings. None the less, it works for anyone. Even adults (dare i say).

I would love to hear what you thought about this. Feel free to comment and give me feedback!