Theme:
"Next Up"
School:
J.W. Mitchell High School
Adviser:
Susan McNulty - CJE
Editors:
Stephanie DeVlieger, Lindsey Hoskins
Walsworth representative:
Sabrina Schmitz - CJE
J.W. Mitchell makes it easy to look beyond the surface with a clear Plexiglass® cover. “Next Up” is a theme that lends itself to the Plexiglass® cover since you can literally see what’s next – the endsheets that feature gel photography portraits of their students. The back endsheets have a quote from each of the students shown on the front endsheets saying what’s next up in their life and are present throughout the book.
The school had previously listed their city as New Port Richey, Florida, but this is the first year their address was listed as Trinity, Florida, an up-and-coming city that has grown significantly over the past decade to now include their school. It’s a turning point for the school’s identity, and the opening spreads explored what it means to be Trinity, because Trinity is what’s next.
Consistent graphic theme elements, like the gel photography pictures for quote modular packages; the bright colors to symbolize how modern Trinity is; the up next modular packages; gradients to signify the forward movement in their city and uppercase/lowercase text treatment in headlines incorporated the visual theme into every aspect of the book, just like a good theme should. With modern fonts and photos that captured the emotion of their school, the reader couldn’t help but want to see what’s "Next Up" in the book.