Circadian Shift

I was originally going to wait until the end of the year to do a mood board retrospective, but since the website for the Multimedia and Website Design class at the University of Bolton in the UK has seen fit to include my weekly mood boards in their list of Help & Useful Links, I decided to put together a post covering what are (in my opinion) some of my mood board highlights.

So here are my picks for the top mood board for each month, from March to September...

28 March 2005

This was only the second mood board I ever did, and I was still playing with things and getting a feel for what I could do. I like how the stretched-out photos complement the blurriness of the background image. The text(ures) worked out pretty well too.

03 April 2005

Incoporating imagery taken from a CD I bought and a movie I saw wound up being a lot more symbolic than what I had originally -- or at least consciously -- intended. The hand is clearly grasping at the UML diagram (which represented a job that I had applied for) and I was sort of feeling adrift.

08 May 2005

A Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy riff, but the real message was me trying not to panic over having been unemployed for several months. In a happy accident, the "DON'T PANIC" text wound up being the same shade of green as Marvin the robot's eyes.

26 June 2005

By this time, I had found a job, and although I was enjoying it, the pace was leaving me rather overwhelmed. I rather like how the colours of the different images worked together on this one.

24 July 2005

Not a particularly remarkable mood board, but I thought the colours and background image worked out well.

14 August 2005

This was an incredibly busy and tiring week and this board was put together very quickly, using only five different images, but boy did I nail it. Like the egg says, I was just fried.

11 September 2005

After the very fast-paced summer contract, I found myself in a new job. Life had slowed down considerably and everything became much more structured. And I was looking back and thinking "Where did the summer go?"

Feel free to poke around and look at the other mood boards. Some of them that didn't make this list didn't turn out too badly either. (Conversely, there are a few that just make me cringe when I look at them now, but they can't all be winners, can they?) I'll try to put together some good ones in the future too.