Strong theme copy helps introduce your unifying concept to your readers. Learn some tips and tricks for creating the optimal copy.
Theme
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,…
If we could momentarily suspend reality to see a goal, we would have a handle on brainstorming. But in a world consumed with promposals and calculus tests, closing our minds and tuning out the usual barrage of text messages that steal our focus might pose a challenge. So how does one suspend reality? It’s a…
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…
For yearbook staffs currently attending summer workshops and brainstorming theme ideas for next year’s book, hopefully your job just got a tiny bit easier. We’ve updated the Theme Gallery here at walsworthyearbooks.com with 20 brand new 2016 yearbooks – a closer look at how those staffs developed their outstanding themes. These 2016 yearbooks have now…
Nothing will kill a theme faster than boring copy filled with platitudes about what the year could have or should have been. Theme copy is not the place for lofty statements that sound deep but fail to capture the everyday thoughts and feelings of students at your school. The goal of theme copy should be…
A good yearbook tells the story of a year. A great one tells it with style and flair. That’s where theme comes in. Think of theme as the personality behind the yearbook. It’s what makes one book stand apart from another. The best themes help you define the year through any combination of words, phrases,…
