A good theme never shuts up. While theme shows up loudest on the pages dedicated to its explanation (opening spreads) and continuation (division pages), it should not fall silent in the rest of the book.
Theme
Now that we’re into fall, just about all yearbook staffs probably settled on their theme weeks ago and are well into production on their 2018 books. Sure, the theme looks great on the cover and division pages, but are you carrying it out through the book? In the next event of Walsworth’s year-long webinar series,…
Strong theme copy helps introduce your unifying concept to your readers. Learn some tips and tricks for creating the optimal copy.
It’s the time of year when yearbook staffs are coming together to prepare for the year ahead. They’re planning their coverage and determining the best ways to tell the story of the school year. Right now, many staffs are in need of the foundation that ties their coverage together: the theme. Walsworth Yearbooks is here…
The Walsworth Yearbooks Theme Gallery, located within our Design Showcase here at walsworthyearbooks.com, has now been updated with images from 18 new 2017 yearbooks. Many yearbook staffs will be meeting at summer workshops over the next couple months, and over the first several weeks of the upcoming school year, to brainstorm theme ideas for next…
For their 2017 yearbook, the staff at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth, Texas, chose the unifying, inclusive theme of “Shine Brighter Together.” That’s why when students received their books earlier this months and began flipping through the People section, they found a portrait of service dog Soldier Campbell mixed in with the freshmen,…
Walsworth Yearbooks announced the publication Wednesday of Our Best Advice: Lessons for New Advisers from the Yearbook Experts – a new eBook filled with valuable tips on a wide-ranging variety of yearbook topics. A free copy of Our Best Advice can be downloaded by visiting walsworthyearbooks.com/our-best-advice-ebook/. Created for new yearbook advisers, but also applicable to…
To bring a cohesive look to your yearbook, your theme should be on the cover, endsheets, and the title, opening, closing and division pages. Begin moving your theme beyond the cover with this activity from the “Finding Your Theme” unit of the Yearbook Suite, by Crystal Kazmierski, adviser at Arrowhead Christian Academy in Redlands, California.…
Coloring books for adults remain popular, and one way for students to have fun now and remember the trend later is to create a yearbook cover they can color. The yearbook staff at Blackhawk Christian School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, jumped on that craze early with their 2015 yearbook, with the idea evolving from their…
In their quest to keep their yearbook relevant, this award-winning, veteran adviser’s staff has abandoned strongly held theme development principles to make an emotional connection with their readers.
