A Wanted Poster That Graduates to the Next Adventure

Why a wanted poster works for a graduation

Graduation gifts tend toward the forgettable: a check, a frame, a card everyone signs but nobody reads. A personalized wanted poster does the opposite. Turn the graduate into a most-wanted outlaw charged with making it through four years on ramen and stubbornness, turning papers in at 11:59 p.m., and graduating with honors in being the friend who held it all together. The Classic Western style gives it the gravity of a completed campaign, the Dead or Alive look suits the graduate who treated every deadline like a heist, and the Sheriff Gold Star is perfect for the student who actually had their stuff together. Upload a graduation photo, write the crimes that capture their college years (one last time), and set the reward as 'gainfully employed (TBD)' or 'the whole world, if they want it.' This is the gift the family gives at the party that actually gets a laugh and a photo, and the present that follows them to their first apartment. Download the $4.95 digital file to print for the celebration, or order the museum-grade cotton version as a keepsake that marks the end of one chapter and the start of the bounty on the next one. Pending degree, confirmed outlaw.

If the format is new to you, here is what a wanted poster actually is and where it comes from. If you already know what you want, the how-to guide gets you from photo to download in one read, and the inspiration gallery shows what other people ended up with.