Caption: Corey Mundwiler shows me his yearbook: the 1972 edition of Rig Veda at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. He was editor of both his high school and college yearbooks, and he’s been a rep since the 1970s. Among my many professional blessings is that I get to work with close friends. My friend and …
GRATEFUL FOR YOU HOME Blog Watching yearbook staffs change their spring coverage midstream has been so heartwarming. I love seeing your completion posts and witnessing your resilience in the face of uncertainty. My heart is filled with gratitude for the teachers and students in my life — your posts remind me that this is an …
A WEB WE WEAVE HOME Blog Here’s a problem-solving and team-building activity I found in a book I really like, Teambuilding with Teens by Mariam G. MacGregor, M.S. The game reminds me of a game that my Girl Scout leaders (one of whom was my mom!) taught us: each of us in the web were …
TRENDWATCH 20/20: BLACK IS THE NEW BLACK HOME Blog Deni Dessastra | Leo Natsume | Luminous Design Group | Roman Post | Black Coke Apple’s Mojave OS brought us dark mode. Star Wars tempted us with the Dark Side. Activated charcoal (and Instagram) introduced us to black ice cream. How might you use black or black-on-black in your 2020 yearbook?
PHOTOGRAPH SOULS HOME Blog Created with Adobe Spark using a free photo from Pixabay Ted Grant said, “If you photograph people in black and white you photograph their souls, but if you photograph them in colour you photograph their clothes.”
BEST PRACTICE: KNOW THE LAW HOME Blog I wrote a paper called “Comparing School Press Freedoms in California and New Jersey” for a Media Law class at the University of Missouri in the Summer of 2013. Advisers in California and beyond ask me about the Leonard Law. I hope that this truncated version of my …
LOTS AND LOTS OF INSPIRATION HOME Blog Check out Jon Gray’s covers twitter: @gray318 instagram: gray.318 This is a lot of beautiful book covers! As you have heard me say, it’s important that you look at book covers as your inspiration for yearbook cover design. It’s not enough for us to look at yearbook covers for cover designs. …
A TWO-FER HOME Blog “Of our five senses, touch is one of the most important. It dictates how we perceive the world around us, influencing emotion and decision making. Incorporating this underutilized sense into your marketing strategy just makes, well, sense.” This is both inspiration and super interesting. The look of this article on haptics …
PRETTY PAPERS HOME Blog Sometimes we get stuck for ideas because we look to our archived yearbooks or at other schools’ yearbooks. Or other schools’ archived yearbooks. Try looking beyond yearbooks. Here are lovely pieces of inspiration from Neenah Paper. Just in this screenshot I see… Foil applications Font mixing Die cuts Debossing Color combinations …
How to Cope with COVID-19 HOME Blog Watching yearbook staff change their spring coverage midstream has been so heartwarming. I love seeing your completion posts and witnessing your resilience in the face of uncertainty. My heart is filled with gratitude for the teachers and students in my life — your posts remind me that this …
