 Hi Hi, Robin. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Oh good. It's so good to see you. It's so good to see you, too Welcome Hello, everyone. Thank you for your patience while we kick this off. I'm Ben Reinhardt the style director at Domino Magazine and Welcome, I'm so excited to Be talking about some of my favorite topics today color and mood boards. There's nothing better There's nothing better. No, the very talented Robin Verrier Robin is here below joining today She is a prop stylist a photographer and the founder of very Robin and company based in Charlottesville, Virginia I'm so thrilled to have you Robin works with Tastemakers and brands such as look who say and Brick helps to bring their stories to life using beautiful objects flowers and their products and Robin I know you recently partnered with look who say to celebrate the launch of agave their latest color introduction a rich blue and green Jewel tone and the brand's first color to blend shades from two different color families So welcome Robin. Thank you for having me. What an awesome intro. I'm so excited that we're doing this Of course Well, so one of the things I love about look who say as a brand is that they really do celebrate color So it sounds like it sounds like such a perfect pairing for you. Yeah, I so like you said I help brands advertise in a really fun way and Like as a person who loves color. It's so great to work with brands who love color You know, it just makes the process so much more fun So when like who say approached me and we've done a few different color launches together To help create the campaign for their new agave color I was so excited because who doesn't love a good blue, which this is it's a beautiful blue green And it was just so much fun We really had a good time with this one. It really is a stunning color and I'm going to pull up An image here One second But while I do that what how did you first get into creating mood boards that's a really good question and I get asked that a lot. So I started this business almost five years ago, which is so crazy But I would like a lot of creative professionals create mood boards to help with like a planning process, you know Like if I'm doing a project or something Moveboards are a really great way to kind of get all of your thoughts in one place, you know like everything in front of you no matter what it is that you're doing and so I Was actually creating a mood board of a working mood board for a stationary company that I was working with and I was you know, I it was for spring and I got all of the beautiful spring Stationary out and I was like, what are the cool props that I can pull to kind of bring this line to life Help tell this new story in a really fun way. And so I did this mood board And I was like, well, maybe I should share this to my Instagram. This is years ago I was like, I don't know people will care. I'll go like it, but I did and so I shared I'm my mood board to insta and people loved it and I kind of started falling in love with the process of mood board creating and it kind of became like my way of Telling my story and of expressing myself So it really started five years ago when I was creating a mood board just for a client for a project And I guess the rest is history, but that's really how it started. Yeah Well, and and you are obviously you're surrounded by your inspiration. I can see that now Yep, we often I'm at the Domino office and we often put up our working issues as as we're developing them here So I I totally get how important it is to kind of keep those items sort of around you and You know in proximity to where you're working So I was curious to hear from you about what like how do you set goals around creating mood boards and in your opinion, like what makes it successful for those of our readers who are tuning in how can they Create a successful mood board for one of their own projects. Yeah, that's a great idea. So You know, we can do inspirational mood boards just for fun or a mood board to help plan for a project I think mood boards all have different missions. Do I mean like they can be for different things? So I think for a mood board to be successful just for fun is to have fun doing it That's kind of the point. I Always think that a good place to start and this is what I do is to pick a single color or a single theme And who doesn't love the theme to kind of start there and kind of build off of that and Then you can kind of it makes it easier when you're getting props too because like if you're like I'm just gonna work in one color color family in all blue then it makes your job easier when you're getting things together But if it's for a project, I think It just needs to help you kind of get the job done You know when you have like a million little bits and pieces and things in your brain And you can put them all in front of you at one time and see everything it kind of makes everything gel And do my colors work do my aesthetics work. It's just a great way To kind of plan for something so it just depends on what the end result you want is either for fun or for a project But they're so helpful. I think you know absolutely. I'm going to pull up. This is a Clip from one of the mood boards that you had worked on for the look crusade project And yeah, I love that you're thinking about colors in terms of like different tones So how do you bring in like, you know, three-dimensional objects or other things aside? What else do you kind of, you know, like to include aside from like magazine tears and printed printed pieces? Yeah, that's a great question. So Kind of like what I was saying earlier. I like to play like on a color story so this mood board that you're showing in particular is Really kind of a perfect mixture of blue and green, which is just like like crusades agave color that we just launched Which is blue and green. So I kind of wanted to have a mood board that represents fun and Nature and excitement and so I kind of sourced a lot of different things and that's usually what I use my mood boards Anyway, it's just lots of different bits and pieces to kind of I'll tell one really cool story. So I Love a physical mood board over a digital one just for me personally because I can really use like anything like you can see here in my CDO, I just have lots of just different items So I think it just depends but I do love playing with the color story kind of like the one you just showed with really fun with blue and green and Yeah, I love that you bring in elements from nature and that you're looking outside of just like I think we all have Screen fatigue and zoom fatigue. So it's it's refreshing that you're seeking Sources of inspiration from nature and other places, which leads me to wonder, you know During that these times, where are you finding inspiration for your creative projects? Are any unconventional places or anything? Anywhere that you maybe might not have expected to find Or for an upcoming project or something that you're working on now Mm-hmm. That's a really good question and I actually get asked that one a lot And I think my answer is always going to be nature just because it's kind of like an immersive experience Like when you go outside or if you're at the beach, it's a full sensory experience You know, like if you're at the beach You can hear the ocean and you can feel the wind and like we'll stand on your toes and it's really kind of a sensory moment that you don't really get when you're inside or if you're at your computer, you know I mean, so when I'm able to kind of be out in nature and surround myself with whatever is going on there it kind of sparks these other creative ideas and Yeah, and I love nature so much that I really do love to include it in a lot of my work So I use shells and plants and pressed ferns and whatever I can get my hands on I love that and and I love that you're sort of analyzing what's out there and kind of grouping those things into different families And one thing that you know, I've always loved about the brand The Crusade is that they always really stood behind color and Domino as a brand Really loves to celebrate color as well. Yeah, our team is Always on the hunt for what's new and what's next in terms of trending colors palettes So I'm curious to hear from you just a little bit about What it was like to sort of apply a new color That's sort of launching the market with actual product like Dutch ovens skillets and casseroles and sort of incorporate that type of retail product into The work that you create. Yeah, that's a great question and Kind of the beauty about what I do is that I can work with so many different types of product You know to bring them the life and so working with like cookware and pots and pans was a new kind of Medium if you will and I and I loved it and the thing that made it fun is because like you say really leans into color and Personality and they really it's just fun. You know, it's something that you want to be a part of and have in your life So The really cool thing about these color launches is that these colors over the years that we've done just have so much personality and I think they kind of Have so many inspirations behind them like for example the agave blue that just launched to me It's kind of like when you're walking out on the dune and you're looking out at the beach in front of you And it's just that feeling, you know of the the wind on your face And it's kind of the feeling that that blue gives you I feel like color is so powerful and it can really move you and I think like you say really understands that and they are able to bring these feelings into your life with these pieces That you can have in your kitchen and your in your world and so it was really cool to do these color launches because I Could kind of bring out all the inspirations that are behind these colors like what does This color make you feel and what does it evoke for you? So it's kind of fun to play off of those feelings in the mood board to kind of give the color a little bit of narrative You know to tell the story and what inspired it and kind of where it takes you. Do you know what I mean? Oh Absolutely, I'm going to pull up one of my favorite color stories that you produced which would which is this Lemony yellow color and so I'd love to hear from you like now that you've collaborated with this brand iconic brand How do you how would you recommend our audience? Integrate some of these pieces into their own kitchens Would you say like go bold like I love like this bright yellow kind of trending marigold color or are you kind of like? Would you sort of advise? Like going with sort of more of a neutral color. I'm just curious what you what you think So that's a great question and the reason that this is like fun and like or say makes it fun It's because they have such a wide very very excuse me Array of options color options. I can really choose whatever you want and for whatever mood you you want or whatever You know color your kitchen is So for nectar that beautiful golden yellow you just showed I really wanted it to be powerful And so I used a lot of the same tone just because we are launching a new color I want it to be all about that color and that mood board particularly and That warm nectar color is kind of like warm and homey But it's also sophisticated and it kind of like plays well with others if you will I can be matched with a lot of other colors, which is really cool and Something that like her say it's done with some of their new jewel tones as they made it so that they will work with a lot of other colors Which is so neat So, let's see if I had to if I had to pick though. This is hard because Yeah, let's you let's get down to it. Yeah, what I love the nectar color. I think it's gorgeous I also am very much partial to flame, which is there. Oh, yeah, but what yeah, what? What are you sort of drawn to you for your own for your own space? So it's funny you ask because I was married almost seven years ago in May And on our wedding our wedding registry. I had flame as one of the things that I had to have this is way before I worked with like her say So truly truly that the orange like classic flame color is a favorite and I think it's so like sophisticated and beautiful and classic all-in-one, which is so neat because it's orange and So I love the orange, but I kind of like to Incorporate colors that you normally don't see together. So I think it's cool to pair The flame with the new agave, which is the beautiful blue green or The new artichoke, which is that really deep leafy green and it's kind of cool to play on opposite You know how you have like orange and blue or orange red Yeah, yep So, I mean, but I also to be honest, I also love having all one color story You know what I mean? It's kind of refreshing to see everything in the same color I don't know. I guess the answer is I can't choose Well, I hear you it kind of depends on your style your own personal style And I find them super helpful to have on shoots. We always I'm always packing a White Dutch oven just to have because they're always they're so versatile and they look great in So I totally hear you And so it was so great to sort of connect and hear about your Collaboration with the brand and to chat a little bit about your creative process. Thank you. This is so fun I've loved chatting with you guys. You guys are the best You're in your office. I'm trying to look at what's behind you. Thank you Yeah, our office and this is our one of our past issues that was recently published. So we're doing some spring cleaning and Awesome, I hope that you are able to relax this weekend and it was so good to see you Yeah, you too guys. Thanks for joining us. This was so much fun. Of course. Thanks Robin. It was great to connect And thank you Ben for being in touch. Yep, Sam. Bye you guys. Thank you everyone for joining. See ya. Bye