5th Grade Elementary School Yearbook
For my son's 5th grade year, I volunteered to be the yearbook chair. There were many unexpected challenges that came along with the project. This is one of my favorite projects I have had the honor of working on.
When viewing the images of the project, please keep in mind that while the school had permission from all people featured in the yearbook for their photos to be reproduced, I do not. I have taken the proactive step to blur out any identifying images and names to protect their privacy.
I found myself filling in as portrait photographer for students that moved to the school after the official picture day and editing matching backgrounds in Adobe Photoshop. I was an unexpected photographer at many school events including field trips and PTA events. This school year long volunteer project was more work than I had anticipated, but I navigated each bump in the road and wound up with a beautiful book, that went to print on time. I received wonderful feedback from teachers, administrators, parents, and the students. I look forward to chairing my daughter’s 5th grade yearbook as well.
The yearbook was 128 pages including individual classes, staff, awards, clubs, field trip, PTA events, parent designed dedication ads, and a few "blank" pages for signatures. I designed the cover and interior art including page backgrounds and decorative "sticker" elements. The interior fonts were chosen for their playfulness and readability. I also copy wrote award, club and event descriptions and edited letters to the students.
The design of the front and back of their t-shirt and other gifts was adapted from the art for the yearbook. I remember my 5th grade tshirt featuring the year we graduated with all of our signatures inside the numbers and wanted that for my son's class as well. I went into the school over 3 days and had each kiddo sign their name inside the "23" of their graduating year on my iPad Pro with my Apple Pencil. I only missed 2 kids over those 3 days and their teachers were able to get me a photo of their signatures so I was able to trace and then place their signatures so they wouldn't be left out.