“So, what’s our theme going to be for this year?” It’s one of the first questions a yearbook staff tackles, but even once you’ve decided your theme, the question still plays out all year long as you decide how to implement the theme. You’ve likely already decided on your theme and are busy implementing it…
Sometimes one look is all it takes to just know – know that you’ve found that perfect theme idea, that is. Suddenly, it all clicks and the ideas build off of one another as if the stars all aligned for that moment. It all starts with a look at a great piece of inspiration, and…
Mike Taylor, CJE, believes yearbook theme copy should be so strong that the school principal can read from it at graduation. Writing strong copy for the whole school year is no easy feat considering themes are typically developed in October. Some schools are even working on their 2020 themes now – in the spring of…
How a new adviser, new editors and new outlook made for one of Azle High School’s best yearbooks ever When The Hornet yearbook staff at Azle High School in Azle, Texas, gathered for their very first meeting just one week before the 2017-2018 school year kicked off, there was a lot of uncertainty about how…
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.
As yearbook staffs begin work on their 2019 books this summer, one of the first challenges they will take on is developing a theme. At summer workshops and at back-to-school training sessions, staffs will be brainstorming for that perfect theme to kick-start the creative process for their 2019 book. Walsworth’s online Theme Galleries have been…
Summer workshop season is here, which for many of you means your yearbook staff will soon be heading off to camp to start thinking about cover designs and brainstorming for that perfect theme idea. Walsworth’s Mike Taylor, CJE, wants to help! He loves talking yearbooks (of course), and particularly loves talking yearbook themes. Which is…
Before your 2018 yearbook is delivered, distributed and the final bell rings, let’s get everyone on the same page about this yearbook theme thing. Let’s get them all thinking in a direction that the staff can work toward. The 2019 yearbook staff needs a theme for their yearbook. Gather the returning staff, sans graduating seniors,…
We know how busy this time of year is with yearbook production, so if you were unable to catch the live presentation of the Walsworth webinar, Yearbook Theme: It’s Not Just for the Cover, don’t fret. The replay of yesterday’s presentation is now available for viewing. In the one-hour webinar, Walsworth’s Mike Taylor, CJE, offered…
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,…
