Front Cover

For the front cover I wanted a simple name and was torn between Krakow and Jazda Rowerem. After doing some research into the Polish language I found that Jazda Rowerem means 'bike ride' I found this fitting as it could then make the book usable for both tourists and locals. However I didn't find this name catchy enough to appeal to English people which is the largest target audience therefore I decided to scrap this.




My initial idea in terms of front cover design was to cut out the letters from the book title out on a piece of card, I would then lay this over a collaged background so bits of the collage would poke through the letters. To make this less boring I also planned on cutting the same 'tyre track' pattern out of the front which is consistent throughout the book. However after some consideration I realised that this was a bad idea. The publication is meant to be a handy pocket guide which can be quickly removed from the cyclists bag or pocket when on the move. If this was to be dragged out parts of the cut out letters would be ripped and after a long day of cycling the book would be destroyed.

I then went onto thinking about how I could make a simple collaged front cover more appealing, I went back to the first collage I made as I really liked it and it isn't going to be used anywhere else in the publication. I really like this and think it works well as a front cover as it bring everything in the book together, there is a building from each of the locations in the book.



I then developed this further by thinking of the material it would be printed on. As my initial problem was how to mix art and architecture I went back to this idea of layering and who throughout the beginning of the book I layer/marge art and architecture together. I thought the perfect material to do this would be tracing paper as I could layer multiple colleges together or simply layer it onto a nice background.