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Yearbook Cover Design Ideas

Shashank Nakate
The Yearbook is usually has two sections; the content and the cover. The content is the part, which contains the pictures of the students who are graduating and their memories, while the cover page is an overview of the theme of the yearbook.
Yearbook is one of the media through which students from schools and colleges and people in general try to summarize the events of the past year. It provides exposure to their creativity. School or college yearbooks are generally prepared by students under the guidance of teachers. 
In some cases, students just assist their teachers in the process of preparation of yearbooks. The different ideas which can help in easing the work of yearbook designing are listed here.

Design Ideas for Yearbook Cover

Cover designs for yearbooks present a view that summarizes the overall content that is present inside.
It could be a photograph or even photocopy of a sketch/custom artwork. The catch, here is that image needs to capture the essence of the yearbook's content.
Designing the cover page for a yearbook could be tricky at times, because one has to pack all the creativity to display it in a single 'frame' of cover page.
There is no standard technique or methodology as to how one should ideally approach the activity of cover page designing. The most relevant themes or ideas must be chosen for the activity of cover page designing.

Organizing a Competition for Designing

Organizing a competition (drawing, painting, etc.) for creation of the cover page design is a good idea. It is a nice way to provide the talented students with necessary exposure. The idea of organizing a competition brings out the best in participants. After all, who wouldn't want their design to be on the cover page.
Competition can be theme-based with a pre-determined topic, or such that it provides students with a choice. Students actively participate in such competitions and try to give their best to make it to the cover page of yearbooks.
The editorial staff or students involved in the creation of yearbooks get to know how creative their fellow students are. Moreover, the burden of coming up with something new, catchy and creative is distributed amongst participants and not on a small team of designers.

Theme-based Covers
Designing for a cover page revolves around a theme. For example, the 'global warming' theme can be used for highlighting the importance of this current environmental issue. Current events are considered a good choice for enhancing the appearance of yearbook cover pages.
Conservation of wildlife also is a major issue in today's world. One could draw people's attention towards these problems by means of cover page designing. Occasions like silver jubilee, centenary, etc. can also be celebrated or given importance by displaying pictures associated with them on cover pages.
The idea of displaying images of 'sportsman of the year' or 'brightest student of the year' could be interesting in yearbook cover designing. It may also encourage students to perform better in their academics and sports activities, just so that they are featured on the cover; appearing on the cover page is something which gives a great feeling.

Yearbook Layout Design Ideas

The layout designs for yearbooks hold as much importance as their cover pages. One could feel the efforts that are put into the creation of yearbook by their appearance.
Nowadays, presentation of a topic is considered as important as the content present inside. Use of a grid is amongst many such yearbook layout design ideas that offers a neat and clean appearance to the yearbook.
These themes are just a snapshot of numerous ideas one could use for cover page designing. The yearbook cover design ideas presented in this post should help enhance the appearance and offer a refreshing look the cover pages.