The Colophon - Balfour Yearbooks Blog

Introduce visual motifs that will be carried throughout the book on the cover 

A few years back, The Atlantic Monthly magazine set out to discover how creative ideas become concrete reality. For a “culture special report” headlined How Genius Works, the magazine asked artists

Halloween costumes and Santa hats. Turkey stuffing and Menorahs. The holidays are a time for food, fun and celebration. Let’s sprinkle some of that joy into the yearbook. 

WOW! What an incredible National Buy Your Yearbook Day! Yesterday was full of amazing contest entries, and we’re excited to announce the winners of our contests! Every year we’re inspired and down

As the temperatures turn cooler and the leaves change, we’ve slowly settled into the school rhythm. Hopefully, your photographers have settled into a rhythm too, capturing images in and outside of

It’s almost here! National Buy Your Yearbook Day (NBYYD) is Thursday, October 25.

We created this day as a special time of the school year to focus specifically on yearbook sales, and build

Sometimes, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover. The cover is the first thing students and potential buyers see. There are multiple cover options to showcase the theme and wow the audience. The

There’s no need to stress over what the yearbook cover should look like. The simplyCREATE collection provides a variety of beautiful cover options, without having to worry about colors, fonts or

As students work on yearbook pages, they’ll need to learn new vocabulary. Yearbook terminology will help them understand the anatomy of a spread.

Double-page spread - Two facing pages in the

While advisers would love to have an all-journalism schedule, that’s not always reality. Often teachers juggle multiple other classes like English, history or technology. Eight advisers share their

From time to time we will feature guest columns from Balfour advisers. Here's our first guest post of 2018 from Foster High School adviser Danielle Bell. Danielle shares advice for new and seasoned