Big Ideas
A bouncy retro brainstorm with cartoon characters and connected thought clouds.
Big Ideas is a bouncy retro brainstorm in teal, grape, marigold and bubblegum. The contents page is Our Brainstorm, the staff are The Idea Team, and class pages borrow from the ways children think: a Kindergarten Venn diagram, a Chain Reaction, a wall of sticky notes and a comic-strip Meanwhile. Our Year: The Flowchart starts with Did it rain?, and Future Me: My Invention leaves room to draw one.
Every page of the book
The cover, every spread and the back cover. Class pages repeat for each class in your school.
Cover 
Pages 2 and 3 
Pages 4 and 5 
Pages 6 and 7 
Pages 8 and 9 
Pages 10 and 11 
Pages 12 and 13 
Pages 14 and 15 
Pages 16 and 17 
Pages 18 and 19 
Pages 20 and 21 
Pages 22 and 23 
Pages 24 and 25 
Pages 26 and 27 
Pages 28 and 29 
Pages 30 and 31 
Pages 32 and 33 
Pages 34 and 35 
Pages 36 and 37 
Pages 38 and 39 
Pages 40 and 41 
Pages 42 and 43 
Pages 44 and 45 
Pages 46 and 47 
Pages 48 and 49 
Back cover
Backgrounds
Papers and scenes to rotate through your pages, all in the Big Ideas palette.
Style guide
The fonts and colors Big Ideas is built from. In Canva, any of them can be changed to suit your school.
Suggested typefaces
Color palette
- Retro teal
#2fb7b0 - Cream
#fdf6e3 - Grape
#6c5ce7 - Marigold
#ffb400 - Bubblegum
#ff6b9d - Ink
#241f4d
Style guide pages
Style guide, page 1 
Style guide, page 2
What is included
- A cover and a back cover
- 36 page layouts across class, event, club and memory pages
- Class pages in 5 sizes, from 12 to 28 portraits plus the teacher
- 15 backgrounds
- A style guide (2 pages), a named palette of 6 colors and two suggested typefaces
- A Canva design your whole committee can edit at once, and recolor for your school
- $0 for a Rethink school, along with the page libraries and First Draft
Who it suits: Schools with a STEM, maker or gifted program, and older students who want clever rather than cute.
Big Ideas, answered
How is Big Ideas different from the STEM template?
STEM is one of our original designs, built around science and discovery with a What is inside? contents page. Big Ideas is about thinking itself: Venn diagrams, flowcharts, chain reactions and thought clouds in a retro cartoon style.
Which fonts and colors does Big Ideas use?
Space Grotesk headings and Caveat handwriting, in six colors: Retro teal, Cream, Grape, Marigold, Bubblegum and Ink.
Where do students sign Big Ideas?
On Sign the Brainstorm and on Say Something Nice!
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Every child is in the shared school pages of a Rethink yearbook, and families who choose personalization get pages built around their own child’s class and grade.