• Highlights who they are and what they accomplished
• Colors fit together
• Made the text into their mascot (it looks cool)

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/055/4/7/spartan_yearbook_cover_2010_by_opov20-d3abh2o.jpg

http://opov20.deviantart.com/art/Spartan-Yearbook-Cover-2010-198730032

• Its simple
• Its aesthetically pleasing
• Has a mascot (we could find a better one)

http://i.imgur.com/Cve3PUb.jpg
http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/1fu8m0/well_here_it_is_the_full_cover_i_designed_for_my/

 

 I found this yearbook cover on Reddit (here: http://www.reddit.com/r/design_critiques/comments/1unfnp/coverhows_this_for_a_yearbook_cover/, and also here http://i.imgur.com/5LuhN4L.jpg)

• Shows the mascot
• hasd a picture of the school
• doesn't look bad

 Steve Johnson Comment

I liked the videos we watched in class today, their names were Where Good Ideas Come From (link#1 link#2). The main point was connecting multiple ideas and parts of ideas to create a new bigger idea.  Essentially it was collaboration! I agree with him and think collaboration is one of the best ways to develop ideas. Steve Jobs didn't create Apple on his own, and neither did Bill Gates make Microsoft on his own. Both of them actually borrowed ideas from Xerox.

I find that my best ideas come from collaboration, like when I have casual conversations with my friends or when I do things with them., such as playing video games. Generally most of my ideas come from preexisting ideas.

So like I have a blog