2024-2025 Yearbook Cover Design Contest 

Deadline: Entries due no later than Friday September 20th

The yearbook staff would like to invite the students of Graham High School to design a cover for our 2024-2025 yearbook. The winning entry will appear on the yearbook cover! The entries of the runner-up designs may appear in other parts of the yearbook. 

The 2024-2025 yearbook theme: On That Note is a celebration of the year gone by and an invitation to join in on the fun. It’s about bringing together all of the students at GHS to memorialize the year that we have all experienced in different ways. The yearbook staff is using “Composition Notebook” and “Scrapbook” visuals as a guide while creating the yearbook.

All entries:

1. Must include the words “Graham High School” and the school year “2024-2025” 

2. Depict our theme: On That Note

3. Can include your interpretation of our mascot, the steer (optional) 

4. Must be turned in to Ms. Shook no later than Friday, September 20th 2024 (either on paper, by email or through canva) 

5. Write your first and last name in *pencil* on the BACK of your entry. (if on paper) If electronic please do not print your name anywhere on the cover. 

Tips for a successful entry: 

ONLINE:

1. You may use an online design platform like canva.com, photoshop, etc. 

2. You may email your design to mckenzie.shook@grahamisd.com 

3. Please design a front cover and a back cover. The back cover can be the exact same design or a different design that is related to the front cover. 

ON PAPER:

Submit on 

1. 8.5 X 11 letter size sheet of paper front cover design only with a Vertical Orientation:

2. 8.5 X 14 legal sheet of paper or 11 X 17 tabloid paper size with a landscape orientation for a front/back cover. Put the back cover on the left, leave space in the center for the spine and the front cover on the right. 

3. If drawing on paper, You may use crayons, markers, paint, colored pencils, or any other medium to draw and color. 

4. Use up the whole sheet of paper. Keep what's important in the design (ie: our school name) away from the paper edges to avoid the artwork being cut in the trim process. 

Entries due by 3:30 pm on Friday, September 20th 2024. Sorry, no late entries will be accepted. Please make sure to add the student/artist name of the back of the artwork in pencil. Do not include your name or any other personal identifiers to the front of your artwork. 

The finalist will be announced the first week of October. The winner may not be announced until the yearbook is released in May. Please email Ms. Shook with any questions.