Trend board

Part of our assignment brief asked us to hand in a trend board so I used the skills I had learnt on using InDesign to create my trend board.  This is my final board but this took time and many different decision making processes to get to this point. This wasn’t what I originally started out to create but over the weeks which we had to make the trend board I made certain decisions which lead to a change in ideas and theme but I really like the overall outcome and feel that this trend board was made to the best of my abilities. 

My first idea however was to create a more inspirational board which was not as technical or as focused as my final board. I had a whole other colour scheme and I created an initial trend board but after much thought on the idea I decided to change my idea. My first idea was to use red, yellow and blue as my inspiration for my board, this was a off the back of the research I did in the trend hub using bright colours for an autumn winter range but after putting all my images together onto the trend board I decided that the idea was not what I wanted to hand in so I looked into other ideas. Here is my original trend board on my blog.

I then moved onto my next idea which was to look at more traditional autumnal colours and I felt more comfortable creating a board for this idea. The board was definitely a work in progress and was changed many times before it got to the stage I felt I could hand it in at. Here are some of the different versions my trend board went through. I changed the initial layout because I felt there was too much text in the first and I wanted another flat to show how the layering could work. In the second image I like the layout it is just the layout of the text under the flats which I wanted to change. I found that the layout changed the most when I put the text into the document. 

 

I feel that my final board really reflects my personality; it was quite different to many that the other trend boards that my peers were creating but that showed my individuality and I feel that this board also shows part of who I am which I think is very important. What I feel went well in this project was how well the images came out on the board; the image quality was high so the image looked good putting across the standard I wanted my work to be at and also my idea of high quality knitwear. I also like how well all the colours of the board come together making everything tie together showing consistency across the whole board. What I feel could have gone better was the writing I finally put on the board, I feel that compared to the other content on the board the words let it down because they are not to the same quality as the other sections of the board, I feel I didn’t have a good enough understanding of what to write on my board to put something I feel was good enough on it.

If I were to create another trend board I would definitely experiment more with different layouts as I feel that I spent to long with one specific layout when I could have tried many different layouts and chosen from those the best one to hand in. I have learnt from making my trend board that I need be open to more ideas as once I think something is good I do get attached to it making it harder to move on and create more things. I also learnt that it is okay to scrap ideas you don’t feel are going anywhere, it is okay because it helps to move on and create something better, which I feel is something I can transfer into other areas of my life.  Future action I think I will take from this experience is to keep creating trend board, collecting images and thinking about how they would link together then uploading them to my blog as I feel this would improve my skill set for industry, improve my InDesign skills and also improve my blog so when I show it to people as part of my portfolio it can show how I have developed my trend boarding skills over time