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The 2022 President’s Collection Highlight Series Shares What Makes a Yearbook Great – Part 5

March is almost at and end, and we’re excited to wrap up our month-long series with the President’s Collection, part 5! For our final post in this series, we’re featuring The Benjamin Middle School, Drake Middle School, Deerlake Middle School, Harding University, Shawnee Mission South High School, Hill Country Christian School and Providence Senior High School. Yearbook experts Mike Taylor,

March 30, 2023

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The 2022 President’s Collection Highlight Series Shares What Makes a Yearbook Great – Part 4

As we enter the fourth week of March, we’re excited to bring you the President’s Collection, Part 4! In this post, we share highlights from the yearbooks of Colonial Forge High School, Rock Ridge High School, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, University High School, El Dorado High School and Lexington High School. Yearbook

March 21, 2023

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The 2022 President’s Collection Highlight Series Shares What Makes a Yearbook Great – Part 3

As the month of March continues, we’re continuing to highlight yearbooks in our 2022 President’s Collection. Yearbook experts Mike Taylor, CJE, Jim Jordan and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, discussed what makes the yearbooks in our 2022 President’s Collect great – and we recorded their conversation. We’ve covered six schools in the 2022 President’s Collection, Part 3. Each video focuses on five

March 16, 2023

Book Organization

The 2022 President’s Collection Webinar Series Shares What Makes a Yearbook Great – Part 1

Happy March! We’re celebrating the month by highlighting the yearbooks in our 2022 President’s Collection. Yearbook experts Mike Taylor, CJE, Jim Jordan and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, sat down to talk about each yearbook. Each video focuses on five main areas: concept and theme, coverage, design, writing and editing, and photography. Yearbook staffs can use these videos and the accompanying handouts

March 1, 2023

Design

Pinterest Predicts’ Trends for 2023 Look Good on Paper

For the fourth year in a row, Pinterest Business has produced their “not-yet-trending” Pinterest Predicts 2023 report, detailing what they believe may be the hottest new trends for 2023. Over 500k trending search terms were analyzed to make this year’s list. The 27 trends fit into categories like beauty, fashion, home and well-being, but they also represent stylistic approaches that

January 12, 2023

Design

Why Yearbook Design Matters: National Yearbook Week

Yearbook design is where you can let your staff’s creativity run wild while determining how to portray the tone and message of the yearbook. Understanding the “why” is where your theme work begins. We’ve compiled resources to help inspire along the way! Finding your why in yearbook design Design comes down to identity and effective communication. When you understand the

October 6, 2022

Students sitting at a table and looking at the yearbook. Some students are masked.

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Evaluating Your Own Yearbook

The final deadline has passed, and your book has been submitted. Now what? If you have a spring delivery, you might be struggling to find something to do with your staff for the rest of the school year. As a brand-new yearbook adviser, I know I was. Although I’ve taught English for nearly 20 years, my first year teaching yearbook

May 10, 2022

Design

Happy Headlines, Magnificent Mods

Once again, hosts Mike Taylor, CJE, and Jim Jordan turned it out with a yearbook webinar. Happy Headlines, Magnificent Mods: Eye-catching Design Elements in Your Yearbook focused on design. Couldn’t make it to our live webinar on Dec. 12? That’s OK – the recording is available on-demand at walsworthyearbooks.com/webinars. Who should watch this webinar? Anyone who wants to draw readers

December 15, 2021

Copywriting

How to Guides with Jim Jordan

Editors and staffers can use these guides as a checklist to create marvelous mods and compelling student profiles We all have grand dreams at the beginning of the school year for how amazing our yearbook can be. The goal is to tell great stories, capture amazing images, include every student, create a record of the year that students will love

October 20, 2021

Design

Perfect Cover Checklist

We see yearbooks that come in all varieties. The yearbook cover has the biggest impact on your book because let’s face it, people always judge a yearbook by its cover. Follow this checklist to make sure your yearbook cover is one for the books. Readable and Relatable Make sure your cover is readable and relatable and avoid too many graphics.

October 19, 2021

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