Creating a vision board is all about having the right images and words to add to your board. You want to capture exactly what you envision for your future, and for that, you need the right magazines.
So, what are the best magazines for vision boards? The best magazines for vision boards include style, celebrity gossip, home décor, travel, fitness, parenting, food, finance, nature, lifestyle, and spirituality. However, it truly depends on your personal interests and preference.
You don’t need every type of magazine on this list, but these are certainly good places to start. Determine what kind of future you’re envisioning for yourself, then choose the magazines that align with your goals.
Best Magazine Types For Vision Boards
While some of the magazine types below may not sound like they would go well with your vision board, you might be surprised to learn how helpful they can be.
Let’s explore each type of magazine that works best for vision boards, including what goals you might use them for and what popular publications you can find easily.
While you can always pick up a single magazine at the store, most of the publications listed below are cheaper if you subscribe monthly.
If you plan to make multiple vision boards, or have a vision board party with friends, we recommend buying a few subscriptions to some of the publications we list below.
Style
Even if fashion isn’t your thing, style magazines can come in handy when creating a vision board.
Fashion and style magazines often have big, bold lettering, which lends itself well to a vision board where you want your words or phrases to stand out.
They also have models in various situations to advertise clothes, like at a gas station, at the beach, or even just lounging on a couch. The various situations you may find the models in can come in handy for your vision board.
Like everything else in modern society, fashion magazines will also come with product advertisements, which you can also use to your advantage with the big, bold lettering or a product that you adore.
A few style magazine publications we recommend are Vogue, Elle, and Cosmopolitan.
Celebrity Gossip
Although celebrity gossip isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, you may be surprised how helpful celebrity gossip magazines can be for a vision board!
They often come with bold, gripping headlines that you can use to cut out for lettering.
They’re also a good source for celebrity photos, which you can use if a certain celebrity is your personal hero or model that you look up to.
Celebrity gossip magazines also come with articles that often have great inspirational quotes you can add around your vision board.
Some of the top celebrity gossip magazines are US Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly.
Home Décor
Home décor magazines don’t often have the same big, bold headlines as some other magazines, but they’re perfect for finding beautiful pictures of homes and landscaping.
For those who are saving up to buy their first home, or afford that beautiful home renovation on their existing home, or just hoping to add some manicured landscaping to their yards, home décor magazines have a lot to offer.
They can also be used to represent a move to a new place. Whether it’s a big city or rural town, you’ll likely find a picture of a home in a home décor magazine that will match your new living destination.
For some great home décor magazines, check out Country Living, Architectural Digest, and Better Homes and Gardens.
Travel
Travel is a wide topic that can mean anything from traveling just within your city or state, to traveling all over your country, to traveling all over the world.
For each traveler’s heart, there’s a travel magazine to match.
Whether you long to travel to the beach, along the long highways across the United States, or to a foreign country across the ocean, you can find the perfect images to speak to that goal within the pages of a travel magazine.
Travel magazines won’t have very many words, phrases, or lettering that will be helpful, but they’re full of incredible photographs that shouldn’t be overlooked when creating a vision board.
Try out Travel and Leisure, Coastal Living, National Geographic, and Global Traveler for some great travel magazines.
Fitness
Fitness magazines work great for those with health and fitness goals.
Whether you want to lose weight, get more in shape, or just become a healthier you, there are tons of ideas, quotes, and inspirational images in fitness magazines.
Even if you don’t have any fitness goals, fitness magazines tend to be full of inspirational and motivational quotes that can help with any goal you have in mind.
We recommend picking up at least one fitness magazine for your vision board, no matter what your goals may be. There will surely be some phrase or motivational image that will work perfectly to add some inspiration to your vision board.
If you’re looking for a great fitness magazine, try Fitness, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, and Runner’s World.
Parenting
Parenting magazines are a great source of inspiration for those who are already parents, or those who want to be.
For current parents, you’ll find lots of helpful pictures, quotes, and headlines that can help you create a vision board goal that has to do with your parenting.
Whether you want to have more fun with your kids, want to start homeschooling, or want to spend more time as a family, you can find the perfect addition to your vision board in a parenting magazine.
They also work great for those who aren’t currently parents but want to be soon. You can find some great shots of pregnant moms, decorated nurseries, and adorable babies to add to your vision board.
Some great parenting magazines are Parents, American Baby, Pregnancy Magazine, and Parenting.
Food
Some people view food as simply as nourishment for our bodies. Others view food as an art form, a hobby, or a even an indulgence.
No matter how you view it, food magazines can be great for your vision boards. You can use the spectacular images and food names to help motivate you on your goal to increasing your cooking skill or forming better eating habits.
You may even be an aspiring chef, hoping to make it into the culinary or pastry school of your dreams. A food magazine would be fantastic for adding some much-needed food inspiration to your vision board.
A few top food magazines to check out for your vision board are Food & Wine, Food Network, and Bon Appétit.
Finance
Although finance may seem like a pretty niche magazine, they can be helpful for anyone with a goal to increase their financial status.
Finance magazines are generally made for people who work in finance, but they often have great images of and quotes about money.
To add some financial inspiration to your vision board, try cutting out that image of gold bars, a bag with a dollar sign, or even just a wealthy man in a business suit.
Whether your goal is financial success so you can have better security, or you’re someone who wants to make as much money as possible to live a wealthy lifestyle, there’s boundless inspiration in finance magazines.
They can also work for someone who may not care specifically about wealth but has high-level career goals and is working towards executive ambitions.
Try Money, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek for some good finance magazines.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle magazines are one of the best types of magazines you can get regardless of the goals on your vision boards.
These magazines are a catch-all and have images, quotes, and headlines pertaining to a lot of different topics. Whether you’re interested in political activism or health and wellness, you can find great vision board pieces in a lifestyle magazine.
This is another publication type that we recommend grabbing at least one or two subscriptions to for whatever your vision board topic may be.
For lifestyle magazines, we recommend O Magazine, Vanity Fair, and GQ.
Spirituality
Spirituality means something different to everyone. It can be organized religion, mindfulness, or something totally unique.
Whatever your spirituality, you can find a magazine that works to give you inspiration on your vision board.
There are plenty of Christian magazines and publications out there that you can use to add Christian imagery or scripture verses to your vision board.
There are also magazines for other religions, such as Buddhism, that can work great for adding inspirational Buddhist wisdom to your vision board.
If no organized religion rings true to you and you’d rather focus on overall spirituality or mindfulness, there are also magazines for those topics.
No matter how you experience your own spirituality, you can find a magazine that matches your personal spiritual journey, full of inspirational quotes, verses, wisdom, and images.
A few good magazines to start with are Spirituality & Health, Mindful, Guideposts, Lion’s Roar, and Give Us This Day.
How Do You Make A Vision Board?
If you’ve chosen your magazines but you don’t know where to start when it comes to putting your vision board together, take a look at this tutorial from Olivia Osborne on YouTube for some direction!
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