As the 2025-2026 school year begins, everyone is wondering what the school yearbook for this year will look like. The Yearbook class at Oliver Ames High School and the Art 4 class came together to vote for our final yearbook cover.
Mrs. Lane, the librarian here at Oliver Ames High School, is also the teacher for the Yearbook class itself. Throughout the years, the yearbook cover is designed by a student. People look forward to seeing how the cover will involve the student every year. This year, they seem to be doing something a little different.
“With the cover theme ideas, I feel like we might’ve started out with maybe half a dozen or so ideas. To choose we had people in the yearbook staff create mock pages that use the themes that they like the best and then we talked about them all, we took a gallery walk and we ended up voting. Like a democratic process for the one that the staff liked the best” Lane says
Figuring out an end design for the cover can be a struggle so there are specifications to make the yearbook special for everyone. Usually every year they choose something to commemorate the seniors or something that involves the student body. The art 4 students and the Yearbook staff came together to put their ideas together.
“So for the end result, for the cover that will be actually on the book, the yearbook staff collaborates with the students in Art 4. So that collaboration was guided by myself and Ms.Shea and so the yearbook staff sent to the Art 4 students the theme that we were interested in and then we picked kinda 2 of the vision boards that the class liked the best and we sent them over to the art students. They started to design the covers and we had one meeting where the yearbook staff and the Art 4 students got together to kinda talk about what they had so far to give them feedback,” Lane says.
The Art 4 students and the Yearbook staff put their ideas together on what the yearbook cover will be and they came up with a ton of ideas. They wanted to make something where people would look back on it and reminisce on what the school year was like.
“Both the Art 4 and the Yearbook staff came together and took that feedback, ran with it and really came up with some like really creative, amazing designs and then once each person had designed a cover, they sent them over to the yearbook staff and everybody voted on the one they liked the best,” Lane says
Designing the yearbook can be a long process and needs a lot of revising and editing. Having specifications and other opinions to vote is something that Mrs. Lane always wants in order to come to a resolution. With all of the designs that yearbook and Art 4 came up with, there needed to be specific directions.
“There was a lot of diversity of opinions I would say so our theme is kinda loosely related to Spotify and so I think there were a lot of different ideas about what particular aesthetic we wanted to go with. Spotify wrapped has sorta like a different look every year and so I think people had different ideas about how the yearbook cover should look based upon the different aesthetics of the different spotify wraps,” Lane says