It is much easier to create a mood board after you have first made an inspiration board.
Put yourself in the shoes of a decorator. Imagine yourself having discussed with the client to find out their tastes, needs and desires… Ideas will come to you, let your imagination run wild, listen to your feelings… In the end, inspiration can come from a word, a material, an image, a feeling…
The idea is to remain spontaneous, faithful to a feeling, to produce a board that evokes an atmosphere.
The inspiration board does not contain elaborate or structured elements. It should be seen as a preparatory work for the mood board. On the other hand, there must be a common thread that will be found on the second board: the general idea, the visuals, the colours…
There are 2 main ways to proceed :
cutting and pasting images from magazines
creating a photomontage on the computer
I tested both. I much prefer the second method. For the first one, you need a lot of material (a lot of magazines) and you spend your time browsing through them, sometimes being frustrated not to find the visual that corresponds to your inspiration. But it’s really up to each person’s taste, because the manual method can actually increase your creativity because you don’t limit yourself to filtered searches for images. It’s up to you to try out the method that best suits your personality!