Mood Board Research Articles

CHRYSANTHEMUM FLOWERS AS A SOURCE OF IDEAS FOR CREATING PARTY WEAR

Chrysanthemums have several types of flowers with attractive petal shapes and colours. This research describes the making process and the result of men's and women's party wear with chrysanthemums as decorative trims. This research method uses a double-diamond design process consisting of four stages: discovered, defined, developed, and delivered. The discovery stage is the stage of finding the source of ideas as outlined in the mood board, inspired by the arrangement of petals and varied colours in flowers. The defined stage was to create eight designs of women's party wear and four designs of men's party wear based on the mood board. In the development stage, the women's party fashion will be created using the draping technique on a medium-sized mannequin, and the men's party wear will be created using a large-size construction pattern. The deliver stage is the stage of making decorative trims in the form of chrysanthemum flowers and fabric manipulation tucking as the centre of attention on the apparel. The result of the research was a party dress that was based on the source of the chrysanthemum flower idea. Recommendations for future research can explore the application of chrysanthemum flower idea sources on different designs.

The Effectiveness of Mood Board Learning Media in Developing Ideas in Fashion Design Courses

The Effectiveness of Mood Board Learning Media in Developing Ideas in Fashion Design Courses

Creating inspiration by developing digital mood boards in student teams

Mood boards have notable potential to serve as inspirational tools in design. However, we still do not fully understand how mood boards are created utilizing material found online in collaborative educational settings. The purpose of our study is to deepen our understanding of both team design and the creation of shared digital mood boards through a qualitative analysis on how three student teams created shared mood boards using computers, and how they gathered inspirational material from the Web. We discuss how the creation of a shared mood board is a complex process, including deepening and broadening cycles, where a key idea is either explained more thoroughly, or then expanded with additional, related ideas. In relation to mood board ideas, the teams decided the specific keywords to be used to gather images online, balancing the design constraints, with an intuitive yet systematic way of working. We encourage to acknowledge a digitally created mood board as a collaborative method for creating meaningful starting points for designing, and for finding inspiration outside the direct design problem. Our study provides information which is beneficial for developing pedagogies that include collaboration and the use of online inspirational material.Keywords: team ideation; mood board; sources of inspiration; online material; metaphor; design education

Lobbying and Negotiation Techniques to Enhance Business Communication Skills through Virtual Reality Training: A Preliminary Study

Lobbying and negotiation skills are some of the required skills to succeed in business and social life. Conventional universities may develop their students’ skills through real-life scenarios while this could be challenging for open and distance universities which students are scattered around the world. Virtual Reality is an alternative technology that allows students to experience real-life scenarios in a simulated environment. This research aims to develop website-based Virtual Reality training to enhance learning in the business communication subject, with a specific focus on lobbying and negotiation techniques in distance education. This research adopts the Borg & Gall Research & Development (R&D) Method for educational research. This paper focuses on the preliminary stage which gathered the data required to construct a high-quality mood board and flowchart aligned with stakeholder needs to produce high-quality virtual reality training to enhance negotiation skills. Primary data is gathered through Focus Group Discussions involving students, tutors, and business communication practitioners. Additionally, secondary data is derived from extensive literature and document reviews, including relevant studies and documents. The result shows that informants are passionate about the idea of using virtual reality to enhance negotiation skills. Options of background, gender, and situation settings as well as interchangeable roleplay are preferred in boosting the motivation and enhancing the practical knowledge of negotiation skills.

“DAUNTLESS” BUSANA DENGAN SUMBER IDE PAVILION CENGHUANG

The process of creating this artwork is explored as a cultural topic, and ideas are sourced from the Chenghuang Pavilion. The inspiration for this artwork comes from the pavilion, which has a strong Chinese cultural identity. The iconic form of the pavilion and the bold colors present in it add a sense of power, representing a strong and characteristic pavilion. The process of creating this artwork involves several analyses, starting from the mood board, design, calculation, selection of materials and techniques, and design simulation. The process of creating the artwork begins with the search for ideas and concepts from a similar pavilion, which has a similar architectural style and texture to the Chenghuang Pavilion. Until a mature concept is found, the selection of ideas, design, techniques, and creation of the pavilion clothing is carried out. Thus, a suitable artwork is obtained that aligns with the purpose, reasoning, and analysis of why the product was created.

MALLOW APPS: Aplikasi Berbasis Android untuk Pencegahan dan Monitoring Gangguan Depresi

Depression is often defined as a mental condition characterized by severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by a lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep. Its mortality rate is 800 thousand deaths worldwide. This project aims to make a gamified Android-based application to prevent and treat depression titled Mallow apps. The stages of this project were planning, designing, prototyping, usability testing and satisfaction, and publishing. Figma was the primary tool used for designing and prototyping. The prototype’s functionality was measured by success rate and ease of use. User satisfaction was measured by using a SERVQUAL-based questionnaire. Mallow has several features: medication and appointment reminders, drug information, depression self-test, education specifying depression, and a mood board, a collage art therapy. The functionality test showed a success rate of 88.9% and an easiness rating of 4.4 on a scale of one to five in the latest Mallow version. The satisfaction evaluation showed an expectation score of 4.63 and a perception score of 4.42 on a scale from 1 to 5. It is possible to use Mallow Apps for widespread.

Ginkgo biloba Metaphor On Gala Party Performance Costume Design

The Ginkgo biloba plant is the only living species in the division of Ginkgophyta. It is also known as the maidenhair tree. The uniqueness of Ginkgo biloba lies in its fan-shaped leaves. The color and shape of Ginkgo biloba have been adapted into a performance costume for the prestigious Met Gala Party. This article discusses the design of the stage costume using Ginkgo biloba as a source of metaphor in fashion with adaptation techniques. The method used involves designing fashion products, starting from creating a concept, and mood board, making several alternative designs, and product prototypes. The resulting product is a Ginkgo biloba metaphor visualized in the form of fashion silhouettes, colors, accessories, and decorative details in the form of knife pleats. Respondent’s response to the metaphor through the adaptation technique of the Ginkgo biloba leaf shape is that almost all respondents can capture it well in the form of accessories, knife pleats, and silhouettes. However, the metaphor through the adaptation technique of the pattern arrangement, less than half of the respondents can capture it. In terms of color, almost all respondents can capture the color metaphor in the monochromatic scheme of the basic yellow color as the source of color ideas from Ginkgo biloba.

Designing pain visualisation for caregivers of people with special needs: A co-creation approach

Recognizing pain in people with communicative disabilities is challenging. A support system detecting pain signals provides caregivers with information to intervene adequately. This study aims to develop a design for a user interface visualizing pain experiences for a signalling system intended for caregivers. Caregivers receive alerts, indicating the presence or absence of pain experienced by a disabled individual. The design process included the use of value proposition, a brainstorm, a mood board with basic design elements, and multiple questionnaires and focus groups. During the multi-disciplinary design process end-users were extensively involved. The final design was deemed intuitive, clear and recognizable, and useable in daily caregiving. This article describes the creation process for a non-hedonistic visualization for this niche end-user group.

Individual outfit designs: Expanding idea development using shared mood boards

Earlier studies have indicated that mood boards have notable potential. The impact of collectively created mood boards on individual ideation, however, has not been thoroughly studied. This article demonstrates how to bring together collaborative and individual elements in design education. We analysed the role of specific, collectively created, mood boards in student-level conceptual design and how students describe this role. We asked the eleven craft education students participating in this study to develop shared mood boards in team design sessions, and to individually design an outfit utilizing a mood board. The data (i.e. video-recorded interviews, students’ visual and material artefacts, notes) were analysed qualitatively. The results indicated that the shared mood boards played an active role in the students’ processes by expanding their creative idea space and providing a context for their idea development. Our findings could be beneficial for developing craft education by combining collaborative and individual efforts.

Determining key colors from a design perspective using dE‐means color clustering

AbstractDesigning a mood board is a creative tool designers often employ at the start of a new (interior) design project. The colors of a mood board represent important information about the envisioned interior designs. In this article, we focus on digital mood boards and we propose a novel method to determine the mood boards' key colors from a design perspective using dE‐means color clustering. This proposed algorithm includes a fixed initialization to overcome the non‐deterministic nature of traditional k‐means, and a merging step to ensure all colors in the calculated palette are at least a dE‐threshold apart. Quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods in determining the key colors from a design perspective. Additionally, we introduce a novel method to visualize the calculated color palettes that takes into account the contribution of individual pixels to the construction of the calculated color palettes. Finally, we demonstrate how the proposed algorithm can be used to characterize color palettes for various design styles like modern, industrial and art deco.

PERANCANGAN STOCK ILLUSTRATION BERTEMA BEACH HOLIDAY DI FLORTO STUDIO

In implementing the MBKM work/internship practice, Florto Studio became the place the author chose as a partner for the internship. Florto Studio itself is a creative company that provides visual communication design services. Florto Studio is located at Jalan Singasari Gg. Grouse No. 5 Peguyangan, North Denpasar District, Denpasar City. During the MBKM internship program at Florto Studio, the author has been given the task of working on various illustration and design projects. One of the projects entrusted to the author and currently in the process of being worked on is the design of a stock illustration with a Beach Holiday theme for Florto Studio. The design for this Beach Holiday-themed Stock Illustration begins with creating a concept by brainstorming, creating a mood board, creating a Thumbnail Design, loading Tight Tissue, and creating a Mockup for the final Beach Holiday-themed stock illustration. Some media designs that the author has done include unit illustration vector designs, greeting cards, patterns, and web banners.

Building Innovation Capability for the Sustainability of Rancabuaya Village Craft Weavers

The research studies how innovation capability can be nurtured within community of artisans through design tool development. Innovation capability has generated widespread interest both academically and practically. However previous works have mostly been performed at profit organizations with few discussed at community level, especially in artisans’ community who are struggling to create innovative product and have lost their competitiveness in the market. The research focusing on a unique case, Rancabuaya Village, Tangerang, Indonesia. The research used qualitative exploratory study design with single case study. Data collection methods used in the study were in-depth interviews, literature study and documentation. Innovation capability is key for long term sustainability and need to be nurtured in community sectors. To accelerate the innovation capability building process in informal setting, the study proposes a design tool to facilitate idea generation for new product development in community of artisans. The design tool is developed with design thinking process: empathize, define, ideation, prototyping and testing. The design tools as the study result are the bamboo and rattan idea book, a book consisting of a mood board and a compilation of different weaving patterns from each component of a weaving object. The book aims to foster the idea management and creativity within a community of artisans, two determinants that are found to be essential for building innovation capability. This research contributes on two main ways: first, it provides an understanding that nurturing innovation capability in community artisans setting necessitates strategic management initiatives such as: a product development strategy, an idea sharing system, and a collaborative culture, this has not been profoundly explored by the present literature; and second, it employs design thinking as an analytical framework that provides a human-centered approach to the process of building innovation capability and ensures that the tool developed is rooted in the needs of the artisan community.

Fashion trends and their impact on the design of men's moccasin footwear

Footwear industry is one of the oldest crafts known to human, where the main function of them was to protect the foot from external factors, then they played an important indicative role in the history of civilizations of peoples, and the fashion of shoes has passed Through the centuries in many phases and took many forms through the different decades as affected by historical and political changes. The importance of designing men's moccasin footwear is highlighted because the shoe is characterized by the combination of originality and modernity and its availability in many styles, which suits different occasions and can be worn throughout the seasons, and until the shoe reaches its final shape, it passes through many stages, topped by the design stage, which is most difficult Because it is a complex process consisting of many steps, intellectually and then practically, and requires shoe designer to present an innovative design with a creatively formulated vision in which the foundations and elements of design are achieved that attract attention and meet the needs of the consumer. The research aims to study men's moccasin footwear fashion trends in the light of global mood boards as a source for developing suggested designs for men's moccasin footwear, where the research followed the descriptive analytical approach to study the impact of fashion trends on the design of men's moccasin footwear using mood boards, in addition to the applied study by developing 3 suggested collections, Each collection consists of 5 designs that include different types of moccasin footwear based on mood board according to fashion trends for the year 2021-2022 in terms of lines, colors, materials and techniques. Then the researcher evaluated the proposed designs using an evaluation form that was judged by the academics (the research sample) and access to the best proposed designs in terms of functionality and aesthetics. The research found the designers need studying fashion trends, the importance of international fashion mood board, and the need to delve into the study and analysis of the inspired artistic sources to extract their implications and then employ them in new innovations in the field of footwear, and work on developing design methods and following up in the field of fashion, which contributes to raising the competitiveness of the shoe industry in Egypt.

A Digital Toolkit (M-Healer) to Improve Care and Reduce Human Rights Abuses Against People With Mental Illness in West Africa: User-Centered Design, Development, and Usability Study.

BackgroundThe resources of West African mental health care systems are severely constrained, which contributes to significant unmet mental health needs. Consequently, people with psychiatric conditions often receive care from traditional and faith healers. Healers may use practices that constitute human rights violations, such as flogging, caging, forced fasting, and chaining.ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to partner with healers in Ghana to develop a smartphone toolkit designed to support the dissemination of evidence-based psychosocial interventions and the strengthening of human rights awareness in the healer community.MethodsWe conducted on-site observations and qualitative interviews with healers, a group co-design session, content development and prototype system build-out, and usability testing.ResultsA total of 18 healers completed individual interviews. Participants reported on their understanding of the causes and treatments of mental illnesses. They identified situations in which they elect to use mechanical restraints and other coercive practices. Participants described an openness to using a smartphone-based app to help introduce them to alternative practices. A total of 12 healers participated in the co-design session. Of the 12 participants, 8 (67%) reported having a smartphone. Participants reported that they preferred spiritual guidance but that it was acceptable that M-Healer would provide mostly nonspiritual content. They provided suggestions for who should be depicted as the toolkit protagonist and ranked their preferred content delivery modality in the following order: live-action video, animated video, comic strip, and still images with text. Participants viewed mood board prototypes and rated their preferred visual design in the following order: religious theme, nature motif, community or medical, and Ghanaian culture. The content was organized into modules, including an introduction to the system, brief mental health interventions, verbal de-escalation strategies, guided relaxation techniques, and human rights training. Each module contained several scripted digital animation videos, with audio narration in English or Twi. The module menu was represented by touchscreen icons and a single word or phrase to maximize accessibility to users with limited literacy. In total, 12 participants completed the M-Healer usability testing. Participants commented that they liked the look and functionality of the app and understood the content. The participants reported that the information and displays were clear. They successfully navigated the app but identified several areas where usability could be enhanced. Posttesting usability measures indicated that participants found M-Healer to be feasible, acceptable, and usable.ConclusionsThis study is the first to develop a digital mental health toolkit for healers in West Africa. Engaging healers in user-centered development produced an accessible and acceptable resource. Future field testing will determine whether M-Healer can improve healer practices and reduce human rights abuses.

The «Museum and Inclusive Fashion»Project. A Design for All Experience at the Balearic School of Art and Design.

International regulations about Accessibility and Design for All are clear. They provide two guidelines to ensure equality, autonomy, and non-discrimination, such as Reasonable Accommodation and Universal Design (or Design for All). Reasonable Accommodation leads to Adapted Fashion, which adjusts clothing to the body (average clothes for the average consumer). Universal Design leads to Inclusive Fashion, which creates clothes for everybody even if you have a body issue. Design for All (or Universal Design) implies projecting from the beginning to the end of the design process based on inclusion. In this context, the Museum-Foundation Juan March in Palma was the starting point to conceive, develop and communicate a collaborative and transdisciplinary design project; it was designed under the principle of Universal Design. This transdisciplinary co-design project took place during the first semester of the 2019-2020 academic year with a third-year BA in Fashion Design students. They designed an inclusive ready-to-wear fashion micro-collection, which focused on sensitizing BA in Fashion Design students, promoting a change of attitude, and fostering a better understanding of the challenges clothing design process. Students were invited to complete two online questionnaires to collect data on the project. The first survey was used to assess alumni's perception of acquisition, development, and/or consolidation of key competences in participating students and control groups. The second survey was used to assess alumni's activity on the project among participating students. This project was aimed at sensitizing BA in Fashion Design students, promoting a change of attitude, and a better understanding of the challenges clothing design process. After visiting the museum, getting inspired by their artists and their works of art, creating a mood board, and drawing the first sketches, two groups were created to develop an inclusive, ready-to-wear fashion micro-collection. Each collection focused on a different users' profile: one group worked with a model with achondroplasia (woman), and the other group worked with two wheelchair models (man, woman). Despite the mixed results, the main objectives of the project were reached. As members of a school community, students must learn about other realities that differ from their everyday environment. As members of a school of design, students must be aware of an important prospective market niche and expand their fields of action that must include Design for All. In any case, human diversity is the key concept to approach user-centred design in the twenty-first century. The «Museum and Inclusive Fashion»project was part of an ongoing academic research project funded by the Balearic Government (2017-2020). This article reflects the views only of the authors, and the Balearic Government cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Persona in a form of mood boards as a part of the design process

The research aimed to design a mood board by using persona as a tool to understand consumers. Persona helps clients and designers better understand the target consumers of the organization and map consumers’ desires and needs. The research was a case study of Loewee Cipta Busana, one of Indonesia’s garment companies that planned to design a visual identity. However, to complete the final process of designing a visual identity, a visual guideline in the form of a mood board was required. The research aimed to illustrate the whole design process and to what extent a mood board could be a useful tool to communicate with clients; to minimize the waste of guessing what the client wants. The research’s result is a mood board which can help designers generate and develop ideas, keywords, and visual assets more quickly due to consumers’ understanding. Mood board helps designers to communicate with clients regarding the design concept. Mood board can also help clients have a clearer direction about what they can do to expand their network and communicate their offerings to the broader market.

Use of wood waste from Amazonian tree species for the manufacture of products with regional identity

Based on the problem of the quantity of wood waste generated by the timber milling process in sawmills in the state of Amazonas and the possibility of manufacturing products using this material, the aim of this study was to develop a product with regional identity made from this wood waste. The research process involved analysis of cultural issues in the North Region of Brazil and the quantity and quality of wood waste present in the Wood Engineering and Artefacts Laboratory (LEAM/INPA). This wood was donated by the company Mil Madeireira, located in the municipality of Itacoatiara in the state of Amazonas. Assessment of the regional themes of northern Brazil found that animals are represented in many products. This is especially true for handicrafts, where artisans seek to represent animals typical of the region in carvings, paintings, sewing and other crafts. As a result, a mood board was created with images of the most popular animals in the North region. The product was developed from hand drawings and 3D modeling to check the relationship between the pieces. Later, a physical prototype was developed using sawmill waste from the species Peãozinho (Micrandropsis sclerorylum W. Rodr), Cardeiro (Scleronemoma micranthum) and Mandioqueira (Qualea paraenses), after their classification. Based on the quality and quantity of waste generated from milling, one of the proposed alternatives was a coffee table called Arara (Macaw). The coffee table consists of 5 (five) pieces: 4 (four) of wood and 1 (one) of glass. In search of satisfactory results, this idea arose based on two factors: the aesthetic and emotional appeal, and modularity. The product was generated from analysis of elements of the northern Brazilian regional identity and the classification of waste from milling of certified wood and forestry residues. It has been observed that much of the wood is discarded or is burned to generate energy. In addition to the amount of wood wasted, two other factors were also analyzed: the first is the possibility of generating value through the culture of the northern region, specifically that of the state of Amazonas, through the manufacturing of products, and the second is to leverage the production of the wood industry. The product is easy to construct and the process can be taught to third parties, since the technical details are presented so as to facilitate its large-scale production.

Transformative Adoption of Traditional ‘Kantha’ Embroidery to Modern Fashion Design Through ‘Khadi’ Fabric

For the clothing-based industry, conventional elements' presence in a design increases its demand and acceptance. Nowadays technology plays a vital role in the development of fashion, but it’s never the replacement of traditional elements applied to modern fashion design. The author has at first studied the Khadi fabric, Bangladesh from the perspective of its distinctive regional background and social-cultural milieu. Besides the traditional technique, conventional fabric using in the dress design will enhance its morality and aesthetic appearance. The purpose of this study is to explore the traditional Kantha embroidery which will be revitalized through a design process in order to archive its characteristics, heritage, and practice. The results of this study signify a design process from traditional art to modern dress design process through analyzing of mind mapping, mood board, color board, style board, accessories board, fabric swatch, and the final sketch. The outcome of this research will show the transformation of traditional Kanta embroidery which will be adopted by Khadi fabric in order to generate a new trend of the design process in Bangladesh. The author also finalizes the design by ornamenting the surface ornamentations. Finally, the outcome of this study will impact the new upcoming fashion industry and also in the garment industries.

Image composition influences on the mood board visual reading process through eye-tracking

Mood boards (MB) are a visual tool used to provide references for inspiration and decision-making in the design development process. However, it isn't easy to obtain objective and precise measures about the MB organization if exclusively qualitative approaches identify how the image composition can affect the visual reading process. In this sense, this study aimed to evaluate how the position and physical image aspects influence an attentive MB visual reading. The results presented that variations in image contrast and positioning influence the observer's visual reading. Besides, the observers' identified tendencies were to concentrate the visualisations in the boards' central, lower and left areas, indicating the importance of this region's MB construction. Moreover, the results evidence that the visual reading of an MB presents a different pattern from those reported by studies directed to analysing the visual reading of websites. Thus, changes in image positioning influenced the viewer's perception, being a relevant point to be considered when assembling the MB's image composition. The results of this study contribute to creating criteria for the construction of MB.

Learning media using the tie-dye technique

The ready to wear clothes are developed through two stages, namely clothes designing and producing based on Martello Fort. The process of designing starts with first, the designing process which includes studying the references (idea, style, look), constructing the mood board, sketching, and designing motif. Then, producing which includes: a) preparation stage involving creating the work design, measuring the size, making the 1:4 scale pattern and the large pattern, designing the material, and estimating the product price; b) implementation stage involving creating the abstract motive using tie-dye technique, placing the pattern on the materials, cutting, adding stitching lines, basting stitching and sewing; and c) evaluation stage involving evaluation process I, evaluation process II, and final evaluating of the result. The result of the study is in the form of design of ready to wear abstract motive clothes inspired by Martello Fort. The design has a T silhouette consisting of three pieces, namely: a dress, obi belt, and jacket. The production of ready to wear clothes is not as simple as what it seems since this high-quality concept has an elegant and edgy design. The clothes are targeted for fearless urban teenagers within the middle and upper classes because most of these classes are interested in high-quality products and trend changes.