In six easy steps your students can learn the basics to designing a perfect yearbook layout. Download this, combine it with our PowerPoint on Design and you have a complete basic design teaching module.
You should also print out a copy of this one for each basic student. It gives definitions and explanations for common yearbook design terms.
What's Good Design and what is GREAT Design?
Do you and your staff know the difference? Little things you can do to take your design to the next level.
With more and more schools increasing their color pages and many producing all-color yearbooks, this is a very hot topic. Make sure you are using color to your best advantage and not overdoing it just because you can.
Download and print this one for whoever on your staff is working on the club section. It will show them what other club sections in the USA look like and why they are some of the best.
Download and print this one for whoever on your staff is working on the sports section. It will show them what other sports sections in the USA look like and why they are some of the best.
Here's help in designing the often forgotten endsheets. Put as much design expertise into them as you do into your pages.
Show your staff how design can be anywhere with this mini-poster of great headline and page design ripped from movie posters and advertisements.
It's back. We take three late 2009 movie posters and turn them into some really cool yearbook graphics. If you liked the one above, you will love this one.
So first we stole headlines from movies. Now we thought why not steal from television. Take a look at some great yearbook adaptations of television logos.
See How to Dissect Your Design
Follow along as we take a great layout and dissect it to find out why it is great and then do the same thing to yours.
Get into today's hottest trend of modular design. This lesson is the logical step from our Learn the Basics of Design. Once you have taught that one, try this.
Is someone about to design your index? If so, make sure they see this before they do. We have amalgamated five years worth of articles from our YourBook newsletter on Index design into this one handout.
See how other yearbook staffs have gone about designing their personal ads. This one might give you some ideas and help you avoid just doing exactly what you did last year.
Trust us, this one is cool. Make your headlines say more than just the words that are in them.
QuickReads are the coolest thing in yearbooks. Everyone is always looking for the next big way to design them. See how some of the best have done them in the past when you download this mini-poster.
Check Out A Square but Cool Yearbook
We saw this book and couldn't resist sharing. The book is square as is everything else in it. We mean it. Every photo, every copy block, everything---square. Really.
Nothing here but a whole bunch of trendsetting design ideas. Why not take a look. We think you'll agree it was worth it.
Don't have time to learn design but want your book to look like a million dollars? Check out these outstanding designs all created using Jostens PageSurfers.
Just more great yearbook spreads and why we think they rate.
One of Jostens best design tools, Click 'N' Go is an outstanding way to add anything from scoreboards to headlines to any layout with just a click.