Sample Yearbook Layout, 45 Degree Rotated Title

This yearbook layout is similar to one that I used in my 2011 yearbook. Previously, we had used pretty standard titles – some kind of banner across the top.

There’s really nothing too exciting about the layout of the frames on this page, but the spotlight here is the title. It’s a thick text banner, rotated 45 degrees. The text frame was made long enough to flow off the page and off the bleed, so it looks kind of like it’s wrapped around the top of the page. The black stroke around the title helps give it a nice footprint and separate it from the rest of the page.

Other than that, there is a mix of image frames – some portrait, some landscape, and some square-ish. The one problem here to look out for is that the top left image frame is covered up pretty well by the page title. You’re going to need an image with a lot of dead space in the corner, or you’re going to end up cutting someone off.

The frames are spaced by a 1 pica gutter, which is pretty much a standard I always use for straight grid layouts.

You can download Yearbook Layout 1, IDML Version and edit it in InDesign. Or, use it as inspiration and recreate it in your own design software. In our finished 2011 yearbook, the individual frames varied from page to page depending on the selection of images we wanted to use, but the whole sports section was based on this design.

To see what a completed spread looks like, here are two pages from the 2010 – 2011 Indoor Track season.