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One of the difficult tasks you will be faced with during the year is making sure your team/group/club/students are all on the same page. Not only with the project and the deadlines you have to achieve, but also with the finished design of your Cover, Endsheets, and Pages. Your editors, designers, and photographers are going […]

Working on your theme is a great way to start the year, its an important foundation for your yearbook and its a great way to start building your team. To get started have the class conduct a brainstorming session – a process that encourages the development of innovative ideas and problem solving through unrestricted and […]

What is this theme thing, and why do people keep talking about it? Your yearbook theme is important it will make the rest of your job in creating your yearbook easier…that’s the real reason. Yes, it helps unify your book, yes it creates a mood, yes it helps flow, but when it comes right down […]

Now is the time! When everything is fresh, clean and new, this is the time to get your yearbook organized. Taking a couple minutes/hours/days to get things in order, it will make the next 6-9 months a whole lot easier. One way to get organized is to tackle the big list! What do you need […]

Congratulations! You have joined the world of Yearbook, you will never be the same again. It isn’t a question of should you be involved in the yearbook, of course you should! Yearbooks are awesome! The question is are you cut out for it? I would say yes! But here are a few questions you need […]

Summer. Vacations and Sun Shiny days. Long drives to the beach. New friendships that will last a lifetime. Yearbook Workshops…. WAIT… We had you until Yearbook Workshops, right? The Friesens team is hosting a summer workshop in Anaheim, California this week from Wednesday to Friday. Advisors and students from various states have descended upon Southern […]

As school year winds down and the familiar feeling of summer is in the air. It’s a good time to reflect how the year went. Look at your yearbook and take notes on how you would like to change it for next year.   Content Which events did you cover? Which ones should you add […]

Maui High School won our cover contest this year and they recently received their prize.   We are so happy to see them enjoying their brand new DSLR camera kit! Congratulations on your beautiful yearbook cover!

Since there are two ways to make yearbooks – in class and out of class – there are obviously two basic ways to choose the members of the yearbook staff: recruiting volunteers or recruiting class members. Either way, the advisor must make some wise and sometimes difficult decisions regarding which students will be helping to […]