Plano West Senior High’s yearbook, Imprints, has been recognized for excellence and featured in the 2015 Jostens Look Book, celebrating the best-of-the-best in yearbook design and coverage. The Jostens Look Book is a collection of spreads and photos from outstanding yearbooks and their creative themes, cool covers, dazzling designs, relevant coverage, storytelling copy and action-packed photography. Along with design excellence, the annually published Look Book honors the important role well-crafted yearbooks play in helping schools chronicle the experiences, stories and achievements most relevant to students and that academic year.

The Imprints theme and cover was created by Kim Kooker, Kamilla Rahman and Dhwani Shah, past editors and implemented by editor-in chief Gabrielle Pollard under the direction of Deanna Martin, the Plano West Senior High yearbook adviser.

“This yearbook staff was a strong group of students with an editor who had a definite vision for this book,” said Martin. “Imprints is an all-color book with 320 pages that the yearbook staff develops from start to finish highlighting people and events each year.”

Plano West Imprints was one of only 476 yearbooks selected from approximately 3,000. The 2015 panel of judges, comprised of nationally recognized scholastic journalism professionals and award-winning yearbook advisers, selected the best examples of yearbook spreads and covers to make up the 344-page 2015 Look Book.

“Yearbooks are unique, limited edition books created by students to capture the stories and events for all of the school’s students and Jostens is proud to celebrate the yearbook tradition and the 476 yearbooks selected for the 2015 Jostens Look Book,” said Gary Lundgren, editor. “Today’s yearbooks are very sophisticated in terms of visual presentation and the relevant and inclusive content that is featured.”

Martin and her yearbook staff received a copy of the 2015 Jostens Look Book and certificate from Jostens to recognize their outstanding achievement.

The Jostens Look Book is a must-have resource for yearbook advisers and staffs seeking creative design and coverage ideas, trends and inspiration. The Look Book complements www.YearbookAvenue.com and www.facebook.com/JostensAdviserandStaff, Jostens online destinations for yearbook creation ideas.

About Imprints

Imprints was first established in 1999, the very first year the school opened, at Plano West Senior High in Plano, TX, under the direction of Johna Birkes. There were 16 people on staff, all of whom were juniors. With the school’s very first graduating class also came Imprint’s current adviser, Deanna Martin, in 2000.  In the next decade and a half of the school’s duration, the yearbook grew and flourished, capturing memories bound into a book of unforgettable moments.

About Jostens

Minneapolis-based Jostens is a provider of products, programs and services that help people tell their stories, celebrate important traditions and recognize achievements. The company’s products include school yearbooks and other memory book products, scholastic products such as class rings and graduation products, and products for athletic champions and their fans. Jostens is a subsidiary of Visant Corporation, a marketing and publishing services enterprise servicing the school affinity, direct marketing, fragrance and cosmetics sampling and educational and trade publishing segments.