This yearbook was created to commemorate our time together during grad school — a physical artifact built to last longer than any group chat or camera roll.
The goal was simple but demanding: design personalized spreads that captured each person's distinct personality while maintaining an editorial, nostalgic, and cohesive feel throughout. Every page had to feel individual and intentional, without losing the thread that tied the whole book together.
I took full ownership of bringing it to life — art directing individualized moodboards, co-directing photoshoots, and designing spreads that deliberately mixed mediums and styles to give each page its own voice. I coordinated the full production timeline and organized a signing day where every person wrote personal letters to one another, making the final book something genuinely collective.
The Plan
Scope Creep
During pre-production, I required each model to upload personal photos and headshots as a contingency — a decision that proved essential. When scope creep prevented one subject from completing their scheduled shoot, I pulled from that archive and pivoted the art direction for their spread, keeping the final book on track and consistent without missing a beat.
Shoot day was structured around one-hour slots per model, with locations pre-assigned and intentional overlap built into the schedule to absorb any delays or discrepancies without disrupting the overall timeline.
Filming and creating BTS
During each shoot, I took bts shots, making them into short digestive video to be posted on tik tok and instagram to document the before and afters
The final reveal
