Theme Gallery

This was a 50th anniversary yearbook, but the anniversary did not take center stage. Shawnee Mission Northwest is and always has been about their students; they are what has made the school great for 50 years, so the yearbook focused on them. However, a ribbon of nostalgia wove itself throughout the book.

The theme “It All Comes Back to You” was nuanced and multidimensional. You could look at it as it all come back to you, because at the end of the day and 50 years, it’s all about you, the student. In 50 more years, this book will make it all come back. The sights, the sounds, the smells, the memories, the people, the feeling – everything that made the high school years so special – the yearbook helped capture all of that and preserve it. The yearbook still paid tribute to their history by incorporating Back in the Day modules on many spreads talking about aspects of their history and had spreads dedicated to the decades, history and famous faces of their school. But more space was dedicated to the current students and their future moving forward, with beautiful profile features highlighting exceptional students, modern fonts, storytelling photography and, as always, extraordinary writing.

And a fun quirk of the book to make it unique to their school was hiding 50 “Where’s Waldo” characters throughout the book because murals around their school have Waldo hidden in them. They’re not easy either – we only found 45…