Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Pinterest as a research tool


I resisted the encouragement of my teacher to use Pinterest at first. I'd been on it before and only saw cakes, wedding dresses and recipes but I also noted the useful ability to create seperate 'boards' that you can 'Pin' any image on the internet to. I realised that this feature alone could be used to collate visual research images from the internet. So I made an account an a board for our current theme; Light.


I instantly started pinning my artist research to the Light board. Research was easy as I could pull images together, give them a breif description with dates, titles and artist info. I could then view them all visually and together in one big stream. I've then been pulling the images from Pinterest over here to Blogger to do more in-depth research.

I've been calling Pinterest my digital scrapbook, because that's what I've been using it for, rather than a social network to share my favorite wedding dresses on.

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