Yearbook Class

Yearbook and Graphic Art

Yearbook is more than a class — it is a professional production environment where students develop real skills in graphic design, visual storytelling, photography, leadership, and communication. Working in Editorial and Photography teams, students collaborate to produce a school yearbook from concept to print, while independently leading newsletter issues, completing design projects, and supporting one another through structured peer review. Every page in this collection was designed, edited, and produced by students — not as an exercise, but as a real publication for a real audience. The work here reflects a class built on creative risk-taking, genuine ownership, and pride in craft.

Yearbook – Introduction Pages

The Introduction Pages open the yearbook and set the tone for everything that follows. Each spread is designed on an A3 canvas — two continuous A4 pages unified into a single composition — giving students the challenge of thinking beyond the individual page to the full visual experience. This section includes the front and back cover, the all-school faculty and student photo, the Class of 2025–26 graduating page, the teacher portrait page, and the teacher group photo. Every spread is built around this year's theme, Countries — a reflection of SSI Busan's mission of preparing students to study and thrive in different parts of the world. The deep blue background and gold border carry the school's brand colors throughout, creating a cohesive visual identity from the first page to the last. Students were responsible for layout composition, design decisions, and selecting images that met a standard of both technical quality and visual impact.

All About Me

The All About Me project marks each student's introduction to Canva and the foundational principles of personal design. Working independently, students planned, designed, and curated a collection of photos to tell their own story — making deliberate choices about every element on the page. Font selection goes beyond preference here; students choose typography that reflects their identity and learn how a single typeface can shape the entire tone of a design. Visual elements are chosen to communicate personality and interests rather than simply fill space, and photography is selected and arranged to build a genuine narrative of who each student is. The result is a project that is as much an exercise in self-awareness as it is in design — and a strong foundation for everything that follows in the course.

Yearbook – Elementary Homerooms

The Elementary Homeroom Pages celebrate the individual character of each classroom while maintaining the cohesive visual language established throughout the yearbook. Like all spreads in this collection, each homeroom is designed as a unified A3 composition — two continuous A4 pages built on the deep blue and gold palette of SSI Busan Campus's brand identity. Each homeroom was assigned a specific country tied to this year's Countries theme, and students integrated design elements reflecting that country's visual culture — flags, landmarks, typography, and patterns — woven naturally into the layout alongside teacher and student portraits and candid photography from daily classroom life. Throughout, students made deliberate decisions about layout composition, image selection, and design detail to meet a standard of both technical quality and visual impact.

SSI Busan Newsletter Issue No. 1

Newsletter Issue No. 1 is the first collaborative publication of the year, and test of what the class can produce when working as a unified team. This issue is led by a student Lead Editor, who sets the direction, assigns sections, and keeps the team on schedule — supported by a Assistant Editor who steps in where needed and documents the process for the debrief that follows. This issue covers the breadth of school life — senior graduations, significant school events from across the year, student achievements, an anti-bullying campaign, teacher introductions, and a look at the history of SSI Busan Campus. Students brainstorm ideas with a partner before moving into design, and every member of the team — editor, deputy, and contributor alike — receives the same grade based on the quality of both the ideas and the final design. It is a structure built on shared ownership.

Yearbook – High School Homerooms

The High School Homeroom Pages carry the same foundational elements as the rest of the yearbook — the deep blue and gold brand palette, country-specific design elements tied to this year's Countries theme, and a mix of portrait and candid photography from classroom life. What distinguishes this section is the design sophistication the student brought to the work. The pages feel deliberately crafted rather than assembled — typographic choices are more intentional, layouts more considered, and the country theme is integrated with a subtlety that lets the design breathe rather than announce itself. The result is a mature and refined aesthetic that feels genuinely suited to a high school audience, and a clear demonstration of what students are capable of when creative ownership is taken seriously

Personal Timeline

The Timeline project challenges students to do what great design always does — tell a story that earns a viewer's attention and holds it. Working independently, each student maps the significant moments of their own life onto a timeline format, combining photography, graphics, and written descriptions into a single cohesive composition. But the timeline is a framework, not a formula. The real work is in the design decisions that bring it to life — color palettes that reflect personal style, typography that sets the right tone, and a layout that guides the eye naturally from one moment to the next. Content is central here; students are not simply arranging information but curating it, choosing which moments matter and how to present them in a way that is both visually compelling and genuinely engaging to a viewer who knows nothing about them yet. The result is one of the most personally revealing projects in the course — and one of the most demanding, precisely because the standard is not just accuracy but impact.

Yearbook – Elementary Subjects

The Elementary Subject Pages bring a different energy to the yearbook — vivid, expressive, and designed to reflect the personality of each subject rather than the overarching country theme. While the deep blue and gold brand palette anchors the spreads within the yearbook's visual identity, students had greater creative freedom here to introduce color, imagery, and design elements that speak directly to each subject's character. The result is one of the most visually dynamic sections in the book — colorful, engaging, and deliberately varied from page to page. Alongside teacher and student portraits and candid photography from subject-specific classroom activities, the design choices themselves become part of the storytelling, giving each subject its own distinct visual voice while remaining cohesive as a collection.

SSI Busan Newsletter Issue No. 2

Newsletter Issue No. 2 marks a turning point in the class dynamic. With seniors having graduated, the class was smaller — and with that came a deliberate shift in how the issue was approached. Less teacher direction, more student ownership. The team was expected to manage their own schedule, resolve disagreements, and hold one another accountable in a way that Issue No. 1 did not yet demand. The result is a newsletter with a distinctly more personal tone. Highlights include introductions to Student Council members, a welcome for new students, and a celebration of student achievements, all written and designed with a lighter, more accessible voice aimed at younger grades as much as older ones. Less formal, more human. An Lead Editor led the process, setting direction, assigning sections, and debriefing the team after publication. Every team member receives the same grade — reflecting the shared ownership at the heart of how this class works. Issue No. 2 is where the team stopped relying on structure to hold them together and started doing it themselves.

Yearbook – School Events

The School Events Pages capture the moments that define life at SSI Busan Campus beyond the classroom — performances, celebrations, competitions, and community gatherings brought to life through design as much as photography. Rather than following the overarching country theme, each spread is built around the mood and energy of the event itself, giving students the creative challenge of translating atmosphere into layout. A high-energy sports day feels different from a formal student council election, and the design reflects that — in color choices, typographic tone, image selection, and compositional rhythm. Anchored by the school's deep blue and gold palette, each spread balances brand consistency with the visual character of its subject, resulting in a section that feels both alive and purposeful from page to page.

Biography Poster

The Biography Poster project asks students to turn research into design — and design into a portrait. Each student selects a subject they genuinely admire, whether a family member, friend, celebrity, fictional character, or historical figure, and builds a poster that does more than present facts. Through research, image gathering, and careful note-taking, students identify the most meaningful points of their subject's story and then face the central design challenge: how do you make a layout, a color palette, and a typographic choice feel like the person you are representing? Every decision — from the weight of a headline to the mood of a background — is expected to reflect the character, era, and energy of the subject rather than simply the student's default preferences. Grounded in the principles of typography, graphic design, and color theory, the Biography Poster is where technical skill and creative interpretation meet, resulting in work that is as distinct and varied as the subjects the students chose to celebrate.

CD Cover

The CD Cover project is one of the most creatively demanding in the course — and one of the most revealing of a student's design instincts. Each student selects an album, soundtrack, video game OST, movie or TV score, or series compilation of their own choosing and reimagines its cover from the ground up. The challenge is a precise one: the new design must be highly original while remaining faithful to the source material's visual language, emotional tone, themes, and identity. That tension — between creative reinvention and respectful interpretation — is where the real thinking happens. Students begin by analyzing what makes the original work visually and emotionally distinctive, then translate that understanding into an entirely new composition built on the principles of typography, graphic design, and color theory. The result is not a copy, a parody, or a departure — it is a reinterpretation that could only have come from someone who understood the work deeply enough to reimagine it with both confidence and restraint. The range of subjects students choose makes this one of the most visually varied and personally invested collections in the course.

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