Local high schools nationally awarded for yearbook design
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IDAHO FALLS – Idaho Falls High School and Skyline High School are gaining national recognition for their eye catching yearbook designs.
“We try to stay current with trends and our design is fresh,” publication adviser for IFHS Ryan Hansen said.
Pages of the 2015 edition of the Spud Annual (IFHS) and the Behemoth (SHS) were selected out of some 3,000 schools to be featured in Jostens’ Look Book. Jostens is a top publishing company for scholastic journalism.
“Kids need to be engaged in the content of the book, so the overall content has to be appealing to their readers, and their buyers,” Jostens yearbook representative, Virginia Wilson said. “Idaho Falls High School and Skyline both do a really good job at covering the things that appeal to students.”
Emilee Fenton Editor-in-Chief for IFHS yearbook class said students put in countless hours to make the yearbook flawless.
“We definitely put in a lot of time and effort and we have really good photographers,” Fenton said. “Our writing is really good as well, we have really good stories.”
Hansen said an element that set IFHS’s yearbook apart from others was using an augmented reality effect. Readers are able to download an app and use their phones to interact with images in the yearbook. They can hover over photos to view computer generated images, or linked videos associated with the page.
In order to meet Jostens requirements students also must be featured in their yearbook several times.
“We really work hard at including everybody at least three times (in the yearbook),” Hansen said.
The 2015 theme for the Spud Annual was ‘WHERE?’ and the theme for the Behemoth was ‘Identity.’
Journalism instructor Becky McGuire at Skyline said the extreme sports page was selected to be in the Look Book because of the action, emotions and captions the page expressed.
Five Idaho schools have been selected to receive recognition out of some 250 schools featured in Jostens Look Book.