Pinterest 101: How to Create a Perfect Minimalist Board
Pinterest acts as a digital pin board, a place where you can save all your visual inspiration.
Minimalism is a common and growing trend on Pinterest, known for it’s simple yet chic style. Spanning from fashion to home décor, minimalism can be applied to many design fields, all of which you can find on Pinterest. Here are some tips to create the perfect minimalist board to satisfy all your creative endeavours and even find great products to purchase!
So, What’s the Point of Pinterest?
Pinterest is a lovely source of inspiration. What’s nicer than scrolling through beautiful imagery and putting together an inspiration board? It’s also a great platform to find and purchase products!
If you feel like the perfect minimalist poster is what you would add to your Pinterest board, why not get one for your home? View Project Nord’s bestsellers to find minimalist posters you can pin and purchase!
Try Out Different Searches
Use the search bar as a starting off point to find your initial pins. Search ‘minimalist art’ to find great posters, ‘minimalist fashion’ for clothing inspiration, and ‘minimalist bedroom’ or ‘minimalist kitchen’ for interior design pins. Since minimalism is often tied to Scandinavian style, try searching ‘Scandinavian fashion’ and ‘Scandinavian bedroom’ to optimise your search results.
You can even search for specific Scandinavian countries, such as ‘Danish fashion’, ‘Swedish fashion’, or ‘Norwegian fashion’ to find even more results. Each search will lead you to a plethora of great minimalist pins!
Wondering exactly what minimalism entails? Check out our article on minimalism here!
Get Creative With Your Boards
Create multiple boards to organise your minimalist inspiration and styles. Have a separate board for art, fashion, home décor, and jewellery to coordinate your design interest. Try out fun names for your boards like ‘Dress It Up’ and ‘Dream Room’ to keep your Pinterest lively and creative. Although Pinterest is image-centred, add captions to your pins to remind yourself why you saved the image in the first place and further personalise your Pinterest.
Project Nord’s stunning Golden Ratio poster!
Another of Project Nord’s design, our Anonymous Woman Smoking poster!
Get Inspired By Art
Since one of the best sources of minimalist inspiration is art, try dedicating an entire Pinterest board to minimalist art. Check out Project Nord's Pinterest art board for the perfect minimalist art inspiration.
Patterns, colours, and different prints are a great way to add an extra design element to your board and express your personality while also finding products to purchase so you can bring your Pinterest designs to life.
The Suggestions Feature is Your Best Friend
When you click on a pin, scroll down to view the ‘More Like This’ section on Pinterest. It provides pins similar to the one you are currently viewing and will provide you with more pins similar to that style. This way, growing your minimalist Pinterest board is easier and faster.
Get Inspired by Your Fellow Pinners
If you see a pin you like, check out the pinner’s profile to check out their entire board and see if there are other pins you also like.
Follow the pinner to keep up to date with their content and check out more of their boards to see if their other pins are also centred around minimalism. Make sure your board isn’t set to ‘secret’ if you want to share your pins with others. Look up your friend’s boards to add a community aspect to Pinterest.
Utilize the Home Page
Once you pin a few similar styles, your home page will automatically find pins in that specific style.
Scroll through the page each time you log on to Pinterest to add even more pins to your board. The more pins you add in a minimalist style, the more Pinterest will be able to find for you.
Once you follow these tips and tricks you’re sure to have a great minimalist Pinterest board to provide the perfect visual inspiration and even find products you’d like to purchase! Want to get started with some pinnable minimalist art? Check out Project Nord Posters here. We can’t wait to see your new minimalist board!
Written by Katerina Szylo
Images sourced from credited Pinterest and Project Nord.