Yearbooks.

Just a bit of a rant that has been inside me and I've been needing to get out.

At my school, the yearbook is student made and run by a (!) history teacher. Anyone can be on the yearbook, do as many pages as they want, and they are only really edited for grammar issues.

You can tell by just that how absolutely horribly it comes out. You'll have pages that look like someone just threw pictures at the page, choose the first type they came to, or where the creator was color blind. This hurts me. Because, being on the yearbook staff, we ALL get this reputation has being horrible graphic artists with no skill whatsoever. We also just switched to using computer programs in the last couple of years, and my teacher (who has no knowledge of computers whatsoever) is hopelessly helpless. Now, I'll admit, my pages probably weren't the best pages last year. But this year I want to make a drastic change. Having just gotten my CS3 and been working on perfecting my skills with it (we do the yearbook in indesign and have all the adobe programs on our school computers), I hope to have some great pages to show next year. 

Last year, some of the pages had issues and I was asked to correct them.

When I saw them, I couldn't let them be. I completely redid one page with all new pictures, background, the whole shebang. If the original girl noticed, she didn't say anything. But I don't care if she did. She likes to think she has this really amazing eye for the arts, and it's complete bull. She has no eye, and she only spent about 5 minutes on both pages and never came to the yearbook meetings.

We need a theme for a yearbook. My teacher insists on them - last year it was superhero. Ick. She told me that my assignment over the summer was to think of one for next year. Due to the lack of experience our team has (the superhero theme didn't work at all, it was only incorporated on a couple pages) I was thinking something simple. School spirit. I know it sounds lame. But it would mean using our colors - blue, silver, black and white - on the pages. It would give it a more uniform feel, I think. It would also mean that our new mascot would be featured! (griffin. I didn't choose it. stupid.) 

If anyone is reading this at all, I'd appreciate thoughts on this or other suggestions for a theme. My teacher won't like this one.