Vision boards aren’t new. They have morphed into something that’s really only used online though. The process has become complicated, incorporating everything from typography, colour schemes, images, backgrounds, and with various textures.
Away from digital, tangible vision boards are so much simpler, making it a terrific project you can use to enjoy creating something worthy of displaying on your wall.
Tangible Vs Digital Vision Boards
By tangible, we mean, you will have it in your home, or office, on display on your wall to look at, at any time. Digital vision boards are more for planning, or something to see when you want to, usually requiring you to log in to an account to access your boards.
The benefit of a vision board being printed and framed on your wall is that it’s there when you need it. Hang it above your desk or a nearby wall where it will remind you why you are doing the work you do.
Your dream board, essentially a vision board filled with your dreams and aspirational beliefs is what can keep you motivated, pushing forward.
As for the efficacy of tangible versus print, the Journal of Experimental Education, University of Maryland, researched the topic in 2016 to find out how print advertising stacked up against digital advertising. They discovered that print outperformed digital for reading comprehension, emotional impact, persuasiveness, and memory recall.
For your vision board to have an effect on your mind, print has the neuroscience field behind it proving it to be the more effective method. Seeing is believing unless it’s on the internet!
Plan and Design Your Board Digitally for Better Quality in Print
The best in design, not just for vision boards, but almost anything you plan to print is to plan and create with digital technologies, edit for clarity and quality, then have it printed and framed professionally.
Technology has made what used to be impossible, possible. And what was possible before, is far higher quality now.
As an example, if you wanted to include a dream home or a photo of a sports car in your vision board a decade back as something you were working towards buying, you would probably need to cut a picture out of a magazine and pin it onto a corkboard, or something similar.
In today’s era, you are only ever an online image search away from anything.
Your best tool for creating your image board is an image editing program that lets you crop screenshots. Search online for whatever you have a goal for. Fancy cruising? Search for island hopping. How about wedding planning? Grab a screenshot of your dream location, the honeymoon destination, and to make your vision board more encapsulating, include some typography.
Inspirational quotes, words that have a special meaning to you, or even dates, such as including the date for your five or ten-year goals in your vision board, probably as the title.
Once you have a collection of images and typography gathered, edit them to be of print quality (300 dpi), then print and frame your vision board in a size to fit all your images, and hang it up where you will see it frequently.