Today is the first day of new student orientation at the School of Informatics. I headed in early to talk up GISA and Indy Startup Weekend, getting to see a slick slideshow movie of all the new faces and their countries of origin. In the midst of local academic excitement over the new crop of techies, an appropriate tweet appeared and pointed me to Yearbook Yourself, with a warning of time suckage. You are similarly warned.
Yearbook Yourself lets you create yearbook photos from your past.
UPDATE 12/2/2008: It looks like Yearbook Yourself closed up shop for the winter, returning Summer 2009.
Yearbook Yourself is an interactive ad for shopping malls that allows you to upload a photo and re-imagine it as a yearbook photo in selected years between 1950-2000. Taubman Centers, a national mall owner and operator, partnered with Colle+McVoy in Minneapolis to create the innovative tool. Yearbook Yourself is offered both online and in the physical malls, with the focus on the teen fashion market.
The context of both time and region are important. Each year is accompanied by a brief description of fashion of that period and an appropriate soundtrack. You begin the process by selecting your gender and a specific mall from which to draw your threads and hairstyle. I chose Woodfield Mall, which was the closest such structure to my childehood home until I was a teen.
After you upload a face-forward photo of yourself, you can browse through the years and see yourself in different yearbook photos. Once you find the picture you want, you can save it to a group yearbook and invite others to add their photos to the mix as well.
Some of the older yearbook photos look eerily like my dad (even having used my Mii avatar instead of an actual photo). I appear to have put on a little weight around the turn of the century, but that ’88 hair could actually be mine.
Yearbook photos through the decades
Welcome to all the incoming students for the IU School of Informatics. Have a great semester.
22 replies on “Yearbook Yourself”
Bwahahaha! Well, I personally think I look hideous enough in highschool without having to do this, but it sure is funny!
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I have been trying to get on this website for a few day and all I get is a blank page, help please.
I can not get into this website.
I can’t get on either.
I love this site! Are there more sites like this one where I can upload pictures and re-imagine? Please let me know, thanks!
awesome
i like it
this is some of the funniest, but yet sadest stuff I had the honor of checking out. I had lots of hours of laughs. THANKS
I can not get into this
help me!!!! i cnt get in to this site!!!
This website wont load up for some reason
Yearbook Yourself isn’t my site, so there isn’t anything I can suggest except try again. There is a contact email address at the bottom of that site (webreporting@taubman.com) if you want further help.
hope to make pic but i cant);
What’s wrong with this site I can’t get into it and I wanted to play around with it tonight.
lol
What the hell happened to the site? I was working on a fun christmas gift for my family. I have a big family and have 5 more people to do yet. Thanks for ruining my Christmas gift for the 5 remaining people in my family.
Jim
What do you mean that it wont be back until Summer 2009!?
That’s what it looks like. Not sure what the reasoning is, but you’ll have to save it for Memorial Day or just give a coupon for a later gift, I guess.
you looked good =]
Will this site be up and running soon?
I don’t know what the status of Yearbook Yourself is. Maybe it will be up in time for back-to-school shopping.