Overall I found this project quite rushed as we only had 4 weeks to do it in, however I was only given my content in the second week therefore I didn’t have much time for designing and production. I accepted this challenge and designed a very considered guidebook in the limited time I had, however the week before the booklet needed to be completed Megan changed her idea and decided that she wanted to make the guidebook catered towards cyclist. This made my job difficult as I had to some how incorporate a bike theme throughout the booklet, this was made even more difficult as Megan provided no extra information for each of the locations in the book, she only provided the distance each landmark/ piece of art work was form the centre of Krakow.
Due to this I had to do a lot of my own research which was very time consuming however it was necessary to make the book more interesting and appropriate for cyclists. I added some information about cyclist friendly places and bike hire shops that I found on trip advisor.
I really enjoyed creating the collages that I have used for the first few pages of the guidebook, I think that they work well within the book and combine this idea of art and architecture in the city very well. The bind used reflects the wires inside a bike tyre which subtly hints what the book is about, however the first page makes it more explicit as it features a picture of a bike and states that it is a ‘cyclists guide’. Throughout the book there is a subtle journey line which has been made to look like a track mark produced by a dirty/ wet bike. Overall I am really happy with how the book has turned out and I think it meets the requirements of the brief well.
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