Vision Board

Lesson Summary

Designing a vision board is a fun way to figure out what you value and want in life. It is used to make your dreams take a visual form. When you create a vision board and place it in a space where you can see it often, you have a visual reminder of your goals, which will help you stay on task. This project gives students an opportunity to apply the graphic design principles of typography, alignment, layout and color.

Lesson Objectives

• Design a vision board to help students visualize their goals.

• Practice self-reflection to understand ones intrinsic values and desires.

• Learn how to apply the graphic design principles of typography, alignment and layout.

Brainstorm Discussion

We tend to follow the crowd and do what we are told by parents, teachers and society, which is comfortable and familiar. But if you want to seek deep fulfillment, we need to know ourselves and find our own path in life. We need to have clear goals, but they should act as a guide and not a fixed destination, since life often doesn’t turn out exactly as we want it to.

Look deeply, what are your deepest motivation? To help family, society or enviomrnet or Money, fame, status? The second group leads to suffering. Try not to trick youself and really honest with youselves. 

1. The first step in getting what you want in life, is knowing what you want. Have you’ve ever thought about what you want for yourself in the future?

2. What do you value most in your life? e.g. Family, poplularity, career, friendship, or money. Why?

3. What are your hobbies and interests?

4. Do you have an idea of what type of work you will enjoy doing?

5. Who are your role models?
   What characteristics do you like about them? Why?
   What kind of person do you want to become? 

6. What do you want your future to look like?
   What kind of lifestyle do you want to live?
   What type of house will you be living in?
   Will you have any pets?
   Will you have any children?
   What items do you want to own?

Process

1. Search for Images. After the brainstorm discussion, search for images from magazines that match your intrinsic goals and values. You can use a combination of text and images. You may also bring some pictures that you have at home.

2. Typography. Design your name on your vision board. Include words and phrases that act as a reminder for your values and goals. You can cutout and put together letters from magazines or draw them by hand.

3. Layout. Arrange the images on a blank sheet of paper to make a pleasant layout. You may apply the principles of rule of thirds, composition and alignment.

4. Glue. Once you have all of the images in place, glue them onto the paper.

5. Illustrations. If there are any images that you cannot find, draw and paint them in an interesting way by hand.

6. *One of the problems you may face when making your vision board is that you can't fit everything on to it. This is actually positive because it forces you to keep only your most valuable and important goals. It makes you cutout and prioritize only what’s most important to you, which is something we all need to do in our lives.

Terminology

• Collage — A piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.

• Rule of Thirds — A technique that designers use to determine focal point. Using a grid of three rows and columns, focal points are indicated where the lines converge. Designers use this as a guide to determine where to place important elements in their design.

• Layout — In graphic design, it is the way your content is arranged in-order present the content in a visually appealing way.

• Alignment — Is a design principle that refers to lining up text or graphics on a page, whether left, right, centered or full justified.

• Grid - A series of intersecting lines used to organize graphic elements on a page.