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- Theme: "By the Way"
Adviser: Christina Tolisano
Editors: Shelbi Herbeck, Cassandra Colby
Walsworth representative: Martin AlbornozWith the 2018 Sword & Shield, the Saugus staff wanted to be bold. They wanted to boast about their school, even get a little cocky, but do it in a subtle, clever way. That’s where the theme “By the Way” came from. The staff created four different versions of the cover, one for each grade level with a different student featured on each one, and the theme phrase in big, bold, stacked text. The book’s coverage is chronological and each section of the book was assigned its own color. The sections were all labeled with fun, braggy phrases on the dividers, including “Here’s the deal,” “Just saying,” and “To be honest.”
- Theme: "React"
Adviser: Dow Tate
Editors: Libby Frye, Lainie Duckworth
Walsworth representative: John KelleyGreat yearbooks capture great reactions, and the 2018 Hauberk does a wonderful job of this for 500+ pages. In their colophon, the editors wrote they chose “React” as a theme concept because it was “simple, modern” and thought it “carried a clear meaning.” The staff added a sub-theme phrase on the cover, “The reaction makes the moment” to add even more clarity. On every division page, the Hauberk leaned on its amazingly talented photo staff to provide full-page images that showed expressive student reactions from throughout the year. Another important theme element was the use of boxes to frame reactions on numerous spreads.
- Theme: “You Wanna Be Us”
Adviser: Courtney Kohler-Hanks
Editor: Camille McNairy
Walsworth representatives: Missy Green, Adam Livesay - CJE, Tracy de la Feuilliez - CJEThe 2018 Odyssey staff wanted a big and bold theme that would show their readers that in University High’s eighth year, they were no longer just a “new school.” They wanted to show off what made their school unique, and they wanted to do it in a flashy way. Along with a confident, in-your-face theme phrase, the staff used a variety of graphic touches for emphasis, such as hand-drawn doodles, scribbles, circles and arrows. The point was put simply in the opening copy, “Look, we know how it sounds, but we just can’t pretend to be something we’re not. And yeah, we’re proud of who we are.”
- Theme: “True. Really? Yeah!”
Adviser: Emily Pyeatt Arnold - CJE
Editor: Katelyn Prickett
Walsworth representatives: Jill Chittum - MJE, Lisa Llewellyn - CJEIn creating a theme for the 2018 Buffalo, the Haltom editors wanted to play on the idea that Haltom students deal with issues and accomplish things that seemed to frequently surprise people. Which is where they developed the playful “True. Really? Yeah!” as a sort of rebuttal to outsiders. The opening copy mentions a series of noteworthy stories that impacted Haltom, including Hurricane Harvey and the donations raised, a student who battled cancer and another who became an Olympian. The book’s look is unmistakable, with splashes of cyan, magenta and yellow outlining many of the headlines and photos.
- Theme: "Our House"
Adviser: Jennifer Bass
Editor: Alexia Galvan
Walsworth representatives: Jill Chittum - MJE, Lisa Llewellyn - CJEOn the opening spread of the 2018 View, the Timberview staff writes, “We come here as individuals and become family.” It’s a sweet sentiment, and probably one that many middle schools can relate to, which is why the staff used “Our House” as their theme. The togetherness and school pride are evident right away, when the reader finds an image of two hands held together on the title page and a Timberview student fired up at a pep rally on the opening spread.
- Theme: “Sifting Through the Noise”
Adviser: Elizabeth Phelps Luna
Editors: Austin Buckner, Shayna McKinnon
Walsworth representative: Kristine WestWhen creating a yearbook, staffs typically have a difficult job to do – sorting through all the chaos of a school year to determine what to cover and which memories make it in the book. For the staff of the 2018 Torch at Athens Drive, the theme became all about “Sifting Through the Noise.” The idea of “noise” was created visually in this edition of Torch through the use of extra copy in the backgrounds of spreads and overlapping photos. The staff also used layering of elements to represent the “bombardment of information.”
- Theme: "Amplify"
Adviser: Andrew Young
Editors: Rose Long, Avery Norris
Walsworth representative: Jenny OlsonThe staff of the 2018 Round-Up from Woodland Junior High based their theme around the idea that a school year is filled with small moments worth remembering, which often get overshadowed by the big events. Sure the football team won a conference championship, and it was awesome, but remember the day new comfortable furniture arrived in the English classrooms? This book put the spotlight on all of those moments and “amplified” them.
- Theme: “Get Lost”
Adviser: Susan Massy
Editors: Kaylee Oakerson, Halli Said
Walsworth representative: John KelleyOn one of the opening spreads of the 2018 Lair, Shawnee Mission Northwest editors write, “They say Kansas is the middle of nowhere, but it seems like we’re in the middle of everything." Indeed, in a high school with well over 1,500 students, it can be easy to “get lost” in the crowd, or the hectic pace of a school year. On the cover, endsheets and opening spreads, the Lair staff created a blue-green effect almost as if an ocean wave is crashing down over the book. This same effect, sometimes in different colors, can be found within various headlines. The book includes a series of theme spreads with individual stories of isolation from students who “got lost” during the year.
- Theme: "Part of the Legacy"
Advisers: Rachel Dearinger, Leland Mallett
Editors: Ashley Owen, Anna Roberts
Walsworth representatives: Jill Chittum - MJE, Lisa Llewellyn - CJEThe school spirit-infused theme of the 2018 Arena will have readers seeing red (a school color), but in a good way. Just barely over a decade old, Legacy High School has still established plenty of proud traditions already and this edition of the Arena explained that becoming part of it all is important. The cover uses a laser cut, which opens to a plexiglass inset that serves as a window to a red-tinted photo of the school’s Bronco mascot. That was an introduction to the Legacy staff choosing to bathe the opening pages in red. The division pages are simple, using just a single student quote and a band of black and white image, with a red band to make the page pop.
- Theme: “People are talking”
Adviser: Becky Tate
Editors: Lila Brockman, Rena Lipari, Morgan Vonderbruegge
Walsworth representative: John Kelley“Pay attention. There’s a lot being said.” Those are the opening lines of the 2018 Indian – a perfect intro to the theme, “People are talking.” A lot of people were talking, and a lot was going on at Shawnee Mission North during the 2017-18 school year and the Indian staff captured it beautifully. Thin lines, which appear on the front and back cover, run at the top and bottom of every page in the book, giving the appearance of capturing the book’s contents in a box. The theme phrase on the front cover, and most of the book’s headlines, appear in a font combo of Futura and Playlist.
- Theme: “Find Your Happy”
Adviser: Alicia Pope
Editors: Megan Handler, Aleena Voorhees, Brittany Watley
Walsworth representatives: Missy Green, Adam Livesay - CJE, Tracy de la Feuilliez - CJEWith “Find Your Happy,” the 2018 Oviedian staff created an upbeat theme that focused on the memorable, spontaneous moments of joy that occur throughout a school year. Readers got a look at a series of those moments on the cover and front endsheet, with the moments ranging from big (a student jumping into a spring) to small (making pancakes in culinary class). The font Bringshoot was used to add a handwritten appearance to headlines, and the coverage did a good job of focusing on Oviedo students living life to the fullest.
- Theme: "Endless"
Adviser: Alyssa Boehringer
Editors: Michael Gutierrez, Grayson Henry, Lexi Harris
Walsworth representatives: Jill Chittum - MJE, Lisa Llewellyn - CJENo matter how much changes from year to year, the McKinney staff felt like many traditions and aspects of their school stay the same. That foundation is almost “endless.” As past editions of the McKinney book always seem to do, the 2018 Lion again featured the gold and blue school colors on the cover, endsheets and most of the theme pages. Gold cutouts were used on many images to emphasize individuals and help them stand out. Thick and thin lines were strung throughout the book to represent how McKinney has persisted over time.
- Theme: “Even When We’re Bad We’re Good”
Adviser: Tiffany Kopcak
Editors: Jessie Close, Sara Boyd, Daijyonna Long, Jasmine Adriano
Walsworth representative: Brian FlammIf it seems like the theme of the 2018 Apollo, “Even When We’re Bad We’re Good” just oozes with swagger, well that was intentional. The editors wrote in the colophon that the theme idea came from a late-night conversation when they all realized that their school, as a whole, holds itself to a really high standard. Two of the school’s signature colors – green and black – are used on the cover, along with that catchy theme phrase. Headlines throughout the book are given emphasis in bold, heavy versions of Bebas Neue and Impact. The coverage is filled with stories of Colonial Forge students achieving and each division page focuses on the drive and uniqueness of Forge students.
- Theme: “Can’t Fake This”
Adviser: Tiffani Womack
Editors: Megan Overby, Mi’Chaela Harrison, Micah Tolton
Walsworth representatives: Jill Chittum - MJE, Lisa Llewellyn - CJEThe students at Lake Ridge High School all knew the pejorative nickname other area schools labeled them with. In the 2018 Fidelity, the Lake Ridge staff was determined to prove that the name “Fake Ridge” should never apply to their school. The prideful theme of “Can’t Fake This” took hold. On the opening and closing spreads, as well as the division pages, the word “real” was accentuated in larger type and color. The coverage is chronological, and filled with genuine stories about the accomplishments of Lake Ridge students, but also setbacks. As the editors put it, “we show it all because we have nothing to hide.”
- Theme: "What You Make It"
Adviser: Susan McNulty
Editors: Becca Roberson, Mileen Meyer, Nicholas Piccione
Walsworth representatives: Missy Green, Adam Livesay - CJE, and Tracy De La Feuilliez - CJEThe J.W. Mitchell editors believed that every student at their school had the opportunity to “create a view of high school that is unique to them.” High school becomes your own experience. It becomes “what you make it.” The theme of the 2018 Stampede was born. The staff played up the theme phrase big on the cover, in three distinctly different fonts overlapped on top of each other. That same treatment was used inside the book, in the opening and division pages. The coverage emphasized Mitchell students making the most out of their school year.
- Theme: "As we know it"
Adviser: Patricia Monroe
Editors: Marcela De La Torre, Cristina Tabler
Walsworth representative: Lori GarciaBefore the 2017-18 school year even began, students at Burges High School knew that a $52 million renovation and remodeling project would be changing the school they had come to know and love. The upcoming year would be the last one for the campus “as we know it.” The Hoofbeats editors wanted their book to “reflect the unexpected but also hold on to the familiarity that is so comforting.” Coverage is broken into traditional sections, and thematic design elements like rule lines, patterns of dots and oversized punctuation marks are used consistently throughout the book.
- Theme: "Just Maybe"
Adviser: Christina Porcelli
Editors: Emma Platt, Natalie Preston, Courtney Chalmers, Lauren Rose
Walsworth representative: Sabrina Schmitz - CJEUsing the theme “Just Maybe,” the Panther staff showed how students from Plant High School kept striving “for bigger and better dreams” throughout the 2017-18 school year. The book was organized chronologically and each section begins with beautiful division pages that feature individual students who faced unique challenges during the year. The theme phrase appears on the clean, white linen cover in the font Manus, to give it a playful, brushstroke look. As the editors wrote in their colophon, the cover represented “a blank canvas and clean slate” with the inside of the book showcasing all the choices Plant students made during the year.