2017-2018 First Semester Yearbook Portfolio

While it was originally our idea to incorporate headshots and quotes into our folios this year, Dan made the original folio template on all the spreads. We later realized that some adjustments had to be made as time progressed and we actually began to fill these empty spreads. We adjusted the mod so that the headshot was adjacent to the quote, rather than the headshot being aligned to the outermost edge with the page number separating the student's picture and quote. While it was frustrating, momentarily, to decide what spacing allowed for room to "breathe" while strategically implying paired objects through close spacing, we finally found the perfect spacing. However, we ran into issues again when we got to the folios for the club and team pages. The "page topic" section began to extend beyond the bleed line and therefore we had to make the decision of moving the student name and grade information up next to the quote for only these pages. While these folios...

This is my favorite page in the yearbook so far. In fact, this was only the second page I designed, with the help of Dan and Dunaway, but this was the first page I designed with a relative idea of what I was doing. Sitting with Dan and Dunaway, we created the big idea of the page: the prominent panorama of the eclipse up top with the partial cutout. From there, I designed the remaining elements. Although the rest of the page is less important to the layout as a whole, I am satisfied with the general simplicity and clean cut look of this layout. Furthermore, designing the rest of this page was satisfying because I finally understood the rules of spacing between dominant modules and secondary modules. I suspect that this will continue to be one of my favorite pages (if not favorite page) in the book. I constantly go back to this page to pull elements for other pages because I know we've nailed our vision on this page.