Krakow Bike Tour

As Megan's idea is to create a publication that makes the art and architecture in Krakow accessible by bike I chose to do some research into other bike tours available. Below are a few of the ones I came across and in my opinion they are fairly expensive especially if this was a family of 4 they would have to spend over £80 therefore the book would be a good, cheaper alternative.

Most of the tours focus on the history of Krakow which again makes Megan's idea unique as her tour will focus on the art in Krakow rather than the history of it.

To get some ideas for designing I looked at the patterns found on bikes and the prints/ textures they could possibly produce.

I thought the prints created by bike wheels would be nice to develop on and possibly use within my design for the book, it's a subtle way to reference a bike ride without having to use a cliche bicycle illustration. I thought they would make a nice 'journey line' flowing throughout the book to show the route of the bike ride which could feature along side the distance of each location away from the city centre. 

The inspiration from this comes from a book I have called 'Britain's Lost Railways' which is a book about the old, beautiful railways in Britain that have been destroyed and no longer exist. Here you can see the line running across the bottom of the page which has a pinpoint that suggests a location, this point moves across the page throughout the book and eventually ends up on the right hand pages. This creates a journey throughout the book which relates nicely to the fact that the book is about trains/ relating to travel.