DesignTips

=DESIGN TIPS AND COLUMNAR LAYOUT= Taylor Publishing Company’s [|“Designing and Planning the Pages”] web page answers several important questions. Read the answers to all the questions, but be sure you know, picas and points, the 5 basic rules of design, and that you understand the column method of design. The column method is explained in more detail in the second link on [|this page] from Walsworth.

View awarding samples of page layouts at Taylor Publishing's Design Idea Gallery.

The Ten Rules of Basic Design and the Guidelines for Clean Design from Wadsworth Publishing gives you everything you need to know to create clean designs.

VOCABULARY
Title Page - Page one of the yearbook. It should include the name of the book, the name of the school, the complete school address, the volume number and year. The school telephone number, Web address and enrollment may also be listed.

Opening - The first one or two spreads of the yearbook that introduce the theme.

Closing - Final pages of the yearbook (typically one to three pages) where the theme is concluded.

Ladder - A page-by-page listing of the yearbook’s contents. Yearbook staffs use the ladder to stay organized and to plan for deadlines.

Spread - Two facing or side-by-side pages in the yearbook such as 2–3, 4–5, 6–7, etc. This is sometimes referred to as a double page spread (DPS).

Signature - A 16-page sheet of paper stock made up of two sides or 8-page flats. Yearbooks are printed in signatures which are then folded, stitched and trimmed, then collated.

Flat - Eight pages on one side of a signature. In the first signature of the yearbook, for example, pages 1, 4–5, 8–9, 12–13 and 16 make up one flat. Pages 2–3, 6–7, 10–11 and 14–15 make