Sources

Print Resources


Dadey, B. and Bond, K. and Chin, G. and Rheault, S. "Moving Stillness, Expressive Silence: Reframing the Semiotic Resources of the Comics Medium." Queen City Comics 2010.
Eckert,C and Stacey, M. “Sources of inspiration: a language of design.” Design Studies 21.5 (2000): 523-538.Print.
Halbritter, B. (2011). Big Questions, Small Works, Lots of Layers: Documentary Video Production and the Teaching of Academic Research and Writing. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 16(1). Retrieved November 1, 2011, from http://www.technorhetoric.net/16.1/praxis/halbritter/index.php.
Lamott, Anne. Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Anchor Press. 1995. 
McCloud, Scott. Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels. William Morrow, 2006.
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible ArtWilliam Morrow, 1994.
McDonagh,Deana and Howard Denton. “Exploring the degree to which individual studentsshare a common perception of specific mood boards: observations relating toteaching, learning and team-based design.” DesignStudies 26 (2005): 35-53. Print.
McDonagh,Deana, Nan Goggin, and Joseph Squier. “Signs, symbols, and subjectivity: Analternative view of the visual.” Computersand Composition 22 (2005): 79-86. Web.
Russell, G., Hedberg, J., Steele, J., and McNamara, S. "Reconceptualising pedagogy: students’ hypertext stories with pictures and words." Learning Technologies: prospects and pathways. University of Melbourne, 1996.
Yuan, Ting. "From Ponyo to 'My Garfield Story': using digital comics as an alternative pathway to literary composition." Childhood Education 87.4 (2011).
Shipka, Jody. (2011). Toward a Composition Made Whole. The University of Pittsburgh Press. 



Digital Resources

The Carl Comics


A few blogs that use mood boards (these are decidedly non-scholarly and are meant to serve as examples for you and your students):



YoungHouse Love, an interior design and home improvement blog - http://moodboards.younghouselove.com/
Free People - mood board examples
aflickr group for inspiration boards http://www.flickr.com/groups/inspirationboards/

Some images of non-digital mood boards:
from 101 Cookbooks
from Whoorl