What’s trending in 2019 yearbooks
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Presented by Gary Lundgren at the 2019 workshop
Presented by Gary Lundgren, NSPA associate director, at the yearbook opening general session. Click on the image to download a PDF of the presentation.
TRENDING
- Concept-driven sections
- Dynamic theme copy presentation
- Fewer images, large dominant photos
- Detailed contents listings
- Jump coverage
- Verbal/visual connections
- Bold typography and hand-lettering
- Bright colors, duotones, transparency
- Big, bold hyphenated words
- Multi-spread divider packages
- Strategic use of black and white
- Whole-book type and color palettes
- Text, insets, overlaps on the dominant
- Extreme horizontal crops
- Partial photo cut-outs
OVER IT
- Tiny photos and group shots where you can’t see the faces
- Clusters of more than three captions
- Crowded framing margins
- Lack of expanded spacing
- Avoiding traditional feature stories entirely
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