What Your Moodboard Says About You
Quick test. Open your last moodboard and ask how far each image is from where it started. If the answer is "a pin of a board of a repost of a Behance project of a photo of a magazine," congratulations: you've made a photocopy of a photocopy.
No judgement. Our Pinterest is also a crime scene. But what you make is capped by what you feed it. Here's where we go when we want the good stuff.
A research platform for connecting ideas. The difference from scrolling is intent. You're building a collection, not doom-saving. Slower. Better. Fewer ads for linen pants.
A minimal, research-driven tool for exploring ideas and visual culture. For when you need to actually understand a concept, not just find something pretty to put next to it.
An archive of branding and visual identity, presented like a digital museum. The framing matters. You study things in a museum. You save things on Pinterest and never look at them again.
A continuously updated moodboard of images, photography, graphics and textures. This is what a moodboard looks like when someone has been training their eye for years. Steal the habit. Not the images. We're watching.
Fashion, design, art and culture in one place. Good for spotting what's actually shifting, as opposed to whatever the algorithm decided was a "core" this week.
Curated archival images for projects and storytelling. Go back to the source and your work stops looking like everyone else's. Wild concept.
Your output is only as good as your input.
Real Designers Don't Gatekeep series. More finds every week on @two.sleepyheads.
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