Theme Gallery

On one of the opening spreads of the 2018 Lair, Shawnee Mission Northwest editors write, “They say Kansas is the middle of nowhere, but it seems like we’re in the middle of everything." Indeed, in a high school with well over 1,500 students, it can be easy to “get lost” in the crowd, or the hectic pace of a school year. On the cover, endsheets and opening spreads, the Lair staff created a blue-green effect almost as if an ocean wave is crashing down over the book. This same effect, sometimes in different colors, can be found within various headlines. The book includes a series of theme spreads with individual stories of isolation from students who “got lost” during the year.