The Colophon - Balfour Yearbooks Blog

Peanut butter and jelly can get old if you eat it every day. But mixing your lunch routine with other options—pasta, salad or chicken—can surprise your taste buds. Why not vary design the same way?

The struggle is real: with tests, homework and high school drama, staffers can be stressed out. With deadlines looming, we know the yearbook room can’t be a stress-free zone. But it can be a happy

Perks of the job – as you recruit new staffers, let them know it’s about more than a yearbook

Academic coverage tends to be the smallest and weakest section of a yearbook, but it’s the whole reason we walk through the schoolhouse gates. So, let’s take some time to focus on what happens from

With final submission lists coming due, this is a smart time to amp up sales, because the best yearbook is a sold-out yearbook.

If you haven’t focused much on sales, the beginning of the new year is

Body copy. Text. Anecdotes. Narratives. Features. Stories. If you dread the writing aspect of yearbook, we’ve got a suggestion to make you love words again.

Stories can be one of the more difficult

Oh, how we love to procrastinate. And when it comes to the people section, it’s easy to put off the planning and design. You don’t have the mugs so how can you start? Oh, but you can.

JEA/NSPA will host its fall convention this week in the heart of Dallas, which is also the  hometown of Balfour Yearbooks. We are excited this great city was chosen to host some 4,000 plus journalism

When it comes to covers, we tend to be swept away by the pretty fonts, cool designs and fancy cover applications. We’re so excited about the theme we sometimes forget the boring details. But there

As you start visualizing the look and feel of your yearbook pages, the abundance of available design choices can be fun but overwhelming. This is where creating a style guide helps. So what is a