A guide to redesigning your life, one pin at a time!
It’s difficult to say what makes anything art, but especially for Pinterest it has to be your own. Something that you can look at and understand as if your own brain has just been scattered onto the screen.
It really is about pinning your interests and whatever particular interest has sparked the board. It needs to be inspired and look that way. It’s easiest to think of the board like a person: it needs to feel like someone lives within in and has a personality. Making a playlist alongside the board is always a good way to bring it to life – the playlist creates the character of the board.
Get comfortable, wrap yourself in a blanket and get some snacks. Maybe you want to be sitting around with your friends, comparing ideas or alone. You could even be on the go, visiting someone or just bored of the mundanity of everyday.
Co-ordination is never a necessity. Use any colours, any theme, any setting. The only necessity is that the board means something to you. Even if that just means you like the images but can’t think of a reason you like them, that is okay. Your Pinterest is your Pinterest and not a platform requiring justification.
Maybe dramatically, my boards help me envision the life I want to lead. They feel like capsules of my future that only I can bring to fruition. Even if my life looks nothing like the collection of sandy beaches and fridge magnets that I’ve pinned, it doesn’t matter. The art is in the inspiration: both what was and what can be.
All that being said, no one can tell you how to make your Pinterest board. After all, it’s not a job application or a dating profile. Pinterest is not a chore but a snippet of who you are inside. So even though I cannot tell you what the art of a good Pinterest board is, I can say that anything inspired is as close as you’ll get.
Photo provided by Hannah Doran for The Student