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September 2015 • Lifetouch Yearbooks Division • Volume 1, Number 3Brought to you by your Lifetouch sales professional:

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What is the best way to find a great theme? From magazines, to television, to

the Internet, to the local shopping mall, theme ideas are abundant. You just have to

train yourself to look for them.

Consider any new events, schedules, activities or changes within your school.

For example, moving from a traditional schedule to a block

schedule might inspire a theme idea: “Around the Block.” A staff from a school

recognized with a national award for excellence in academics might use the theme,

“Rising to the Occasion” or “Exemplary. Excited. Excellent.”

After choosing your concept, create theme-related titles for each

section in the book. You may want to merge sections together under the titles

included in the theme.

For the theme, “Exemplary. Excited. Excellent.,” the staff could divide the book into

three sections and use those words for the titles: Exemplary for academics and

organizations, Excited for sports and student life, and Excellent for people. For the

theme, “Around the Block,” the staff might use phrases containing the word,

around: Around Our Friends for people, Around Our School for student

life, Around Our Classes for academics, Around Our Competitors for

sports, and Around Our Interests for clubs and

organizations. Use words with ideas that reflect the theme and keep

them in parallel structure.

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Create a theme design

Cover People divider: Introduces portrait section

Front end sheet/table of contents Student life divider: Introduces student life section

Opening section: Introduces theme Academics section: Introduces academics section

Design theme spreads using elements from the cover and repeating them on the inside of the book. Theme spreads include title page, opening spread, dividers, index, closing spread and parting page.

1. Echo the look of the cover using colors, type and graphics.

2. Maintain consistency in sizes, colors and type families.

3. Incorporate elements from theme pages into section designs.

4. Strive for the “whole book look,” thus unifying the entire book using type, graphics and color strategies.

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Academics section design

Sports section design

Organizations section design

Elements neededfor “whole book look”

Continuous elements: Type, horizontal photo area, cut-out-background photos attached to rectangular-shaped photos

Secondary coverage modules: A variety of elements that help you tell the story