Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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Depending on how much time one will spend on initial research one may cover a lot of ground and accumulate lots of creative options.

When we have explored enough research it’s then time to edit this down.

It’s the synthesis of visual research that becomes crucial and can determine the direction of your potential design solution.

Moving into the third step of the design process, we're now looking to focus on a more decisive direction for our poster design, and we do this by creating mood boards.

Mood boards are our visual brainstorming tools that bring our ideas, Mood Boards, and visual direction into focus.

Mood boards are great to keep you focused on a particular direction and can also be good to share with work colleagues or even clients to help present and sell your design intentions.

In the last step, we were thinking divergently and looking outwards, in this step, we start to think convergently, where we will want to look inwards.

In this video, I’ll be demonstrating how I develop my mood boards for poster design.

So let's get into it!


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KEY AREAS

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:42 Mood Board Review
00:06:54 Task 5 - Create a Focused Mood Board


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POSTER DESIGN EBOOK

This lesson is part of a bigger series on poster design, and part of the Poster Design eBook.

If you want to take a closer look at the examples I demonstrated in this video and learn more about poster design, with tutorials on how to make a poster design and undertake a poster design challenge.

You can invest in the poster design Ebook

GET EBOOK HERE: garethdavidstudio.com/design_school/modules/poster_design.html



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If you would like to join the GDS design school community, where we chat about design, give each other feedback and where I set design challenges.

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See you there


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