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What’s a Mood Board?

 

One of the first steps to a style update or room remodel is to gather your thoughts so they can translate to actual stuff. When you find a color scheme you love or are moved by a certain design palate, you need a place to put these insights.

One way to collect all your inspirations is to keep the magazine you found the image in, dog-ear the page, and stack it on top of the ever-growing pile of other magazines with dog-eared pages.

Or, you could just create a mood board.

This is a simple and effective way of keeping what inspires you in one easy-to-view place. Your mood board is designed to combine images of products, colors, and text so that you can keep coming back to one place whether you’re ready to add something or just want to see the progress of your project.

There’s no wrong way to start your mood board, but there are a few basic steps to follow. As the mood board creator, you have total creative control over what goes on the board.

You can do things the “old fashioned” way: Grab a cork board, and when you see a paint sample, an image of a kitchen faucet, or motif from a design magazine you’d like to keep, get it.

After a while, your collection will start to grow and take shape. Group it all together on the board in a way that will keep the creativity flowing and help you get closer to completing your project.

Or if you’d prefer, you can create a digital mood board. The entire process is simplified, and a wealth of potential online inspiration is waiting right at your fingertips. Save, copy, paste, save. What could be easier?

Of course, some people prefer the tactile sensation of a mood board they can touch and feel (especially if it includes swatches of color or fabric). Regardless, visit Oliboard.com for a great example of a digital mood board.

And, yes, if you were wondering, there’s an app for that, for iPad users.

So, when you’re ready to start collecting all of your thoughts (and others’ ideas) together in one place, simplify things, streamline the process, and remove the clutter. A mood board can help with any new design project.

 

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Denver Biz Tech Expo Announces the 2014 Event Integration, Mobility, SecurityGet in Front of Whats Next

Denver, CO (PRWEB) May 15, 2014

The Denver Biz Tech Expo, which connects Colorado businesses with top local and national technology and cloud providers, announces today the 2014 Denver Biz Tech Expo, “Integration, Mobility, Security…Get in front of what’s next”, exclusively for business owners, executives and IT decision makers.

The Denver Biz Tech Expo (DBTE), scheduled for Thursday, October 9, 2014, takes place at the amazing Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, and will include up to 80 exhibitors showcasing hardware, software, and service solutions in all areas of technology. The DBTE is designed to help companies operate more successfully in today’s competitive global marketplace by showcasing the most advanced technology solutions available. Attendees will include business owners, executives, directors, managers and IT professionals across all industries.

Latisys, a Denver based national datacenter and managed services provider, returns as the DBTE 2014 Platinum Sponsor. Latisys provides an end-to-end suite of premier IT Outsourcing solutions, including data center colocation, managed hosting, managed services and cloud solutions that extend and enhance your company’s IT infrastructure.

“As one of the primary sponsors of the Denver Biz Tech Expo for the last two years, Latisys has been very pleased with both the high production quality of the event as well as the sales return on investment,” said Tim Nielsen, Regional Sales Director for Latisys. “The Denver Biz Tech Expo has quickly established itself as a must-attend event for both IT and business professionals in Colorado.”

Other sponsors include: Axcient (Presentation), HP (Speaking), Windstream Communications (Recycling) and Momentum Telecom (Show Book) as first time sponsors with Dell and Microsoft returning as speaking sponsors and Denver based security firm Forensic Pursuit also returning as a sponsor.

The 2014 DBTE will feature both local and global exhibitors showcasing technology hardware, software and services in IT management, security, mobility, integration, telecom, Internet hosting, datacenter, managed services, network specialists, cloud services, technology recycling, digital signage, document scanning and management, business continuity, technology staffing, business software, digital forensic investigation/e-discovery, software and application development and green technology services.

“Our goal is to provide Colorado business with the ability to ‘get in front of what’s next’ in the technology industry,” stated David DeCamillis, President of Denver Technology Partners. “The 2014 Denver Biz Tech Expo will also help companies address the rapid convergence of IT and consumer devices including the growing need for integration, mobility and security.”

The DBTE will feature a speaker’s series throughout the expo day highlighting key global technology providers who will deliver presentations incorporating dynamic, leading-edge solutions and product demonstrations of cutting-edge hardware, software and service solutions. Much of the speaker series content will focus on integration, mobility and/or security.

DBTE also provides two innovative forums that will bring local, state and federal resources and experts to the event: The SMB Government Resource Center and Public Town Hall help foster relationships between small businesses and government entities.