I had difficulty bringing the images of architecture and art together throughout Megans book as I struggled to see much relation between the images. Therefore to merge the idea of art and architecture together I decided I wanted to make my own kind of art work to feature in the book. I looked into different kind of architectural collages and drawings done to emphasise the shapes of certain buildings. The two examples above are by a photographer called Alexey Bogolepov who is based in St Petersburg, his work focuses on the architecture and ideology of modernism.
I like how simple his work is and the fact that the red geometric shapes overlaying the image don't distract from the actual photos.
Some of my favourite graphic design work has come from Bauhaus, this collage in particular is by Paul smith who created this along with a series of other collages in response to a brief which was to create six bauhaus-inspired images to be sold in the Barbican shop. I love how simple this collage is and how much blank space there is around it, it has room to breath and I think that's what makes the collage so good. It's simple in a nice way, not in an unfinished way.
A similar collage to the other is this one by Rebecca Rumble, a London based art director who works in video, animation, audio, graphics and photography. I love how busy this collage is and the fact their is so much going on yet it doesn't look over the top. I think this style is more suitable for my idea as I want to feature multiple buildings/ landmarks from certain areas therefore would feature multiple buildings much like the collage above does.
Instead of overlapping cut out buildings I thought that cutting out snippets of the buildings and creating a pattern with them would be a nice idea, similar to this book cover displayed above. I think it adds more mystery to the place and encourages people to visit it to see what it really looks like.
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