Month: November 2015
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Top 10 Popular Yearbook Quotes

Yearbook chat on twitter largely focuses on one thing- yearbook quotes! Finding the perfect statement that sums up your personality, sends well wishes to the year and making it fit into your profile is one of the most talked about topics when it comes to yearbooking. How do you choose…
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Get the look: Social Savvy

It’s said that teenagers spend on average 31 hours a week online so it’ll come as no big surprise that so many yearbookers are trying to incorporate social media styling into their projects. Last year we saw hundreds of snapchat collages going into books and there was a great celebration of all…
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We love Coolors.co

No that’s not a misstype! Coolors.co is a fab website for creating colour palettes that really work.You can explore which colours gel well and it’s gets bonus points for giving you the hex codes for each colour in the palette too 🙂 If you go back to your book, you…
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Top Interview Techniques

Getting great comments from your teachers and school team is a really lovely touch for your yearbooks and after 5+ years of teaching you guys, they probably have a huge amount of stories and memories to share. To help you get the juiciest gossip for your leavers book, give these…
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Budgeting for your projects

Hey everyone, how are we all feeling this week? I wanted to chat to you some more about budgeting for your projects and how to work out your estimates and get a quote this afternoon. Getting started with your plans early on will give you less to worry about later…
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Celebrating Children in Need

Hey everyone, it’s great to see lots of activity for Children in Need this week with fundraising and fancy dress days going on up and down the country. We’d love to see your charity fundraising efforts so do share your photos with us and we’ll give your school a shout out…
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Creating a Facebook Group to promote your yearbook

Setting up a facebook group is a great way to keep your classmates updated and remind them of deadlines for profile entries and awards voting etc. If you’re a whizz on social media, this may just be the marketing strategy for you 🙂 Clicking onto ‘create group’ will bring up a…
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Collaborative working

Working together on a creative project should be a good laugh so today we’re talking collaborative working and getting the most out of your team meetings. When it comes to working as a team, you may find you have loads of ideas that don’t necessarily all work well together but…
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Playlist Pages

Playlists are super easy pages to make as essentially it’s just a few text boxes on the page and a background to add. Grab a pen and paper and make a note of any top songs from common room, school shows and so on so you can include them. Don’t…
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Get the Look: Try our School Smarts Yearbook Theme

If you really want to capture your school life in your yearbook, you can opt to work in a school theme to your cover artwork and page designs. Uniform inspired covers have been really big in 2015 and they’re set to be in high demand again in 2016! So starting with…