Part 5 Exercise 3:Travel Guide

My brief

Create 3 full book jacket illustrations for a travel guide for each of these places…. Milan, Helsinki and Istanbul

Research or acquire existing travel guides (doesn’t have to be for these places) for inspiration and layout, colour, themes as well as text. The illustrations you are creating need to be relevant to the location and done in a diagrammatic way. In addition, using an appropriate and clear style the illustrations should be hand drawn.

It would be helpful to research things such as popular attractions, building or places within these locations as well as maps so you can include as much information as possible. When looking at things like maps or diagrams think about the style, will it be abstract, realistic, strict lines. What colours may reflect the place or atmosphere? Another element could be if your want to create a certain message or impression for the reader. Does the text and type face match the drawing, is that clear and effective?

For these three illustrations client visuals are essential so plan, research, and brainstorm thoroughly before coming up with a final mock-up.

 

 Research, moodboards

refrences:

 Radcliffe, B. (2018). 16 Top-Rated Tourist Attractions in Milan | PlanetWare. [online] Planetware.com. Available at: https://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions-/milan-i-lo-m.htm.

 www.planetware.com. (n.d.). 17 Top-Rated Tourist Attractions in Helsinki & Easy Day Trips | PlanetWare. [online] Available at: https://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions-/helsinki-helsingfors-sf-udn-hels.htm.

 Planetware.com. (2019). 22 Top-Rated Tourist Attractions in Istanbul | PlanetWare. [online] Available at: https://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions-/istanbul-tr-is-i.htm.

www.planetware.com. (n.d.). 17 Top-Rated Tourist Attractions in Helsinki & Easy Day Trips | PlanetWare. [online] Available at: https://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions-/helsinki-helsingfors-sf-udn-hels.htm.

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Existing travel guides

travel guides for the three locations 

Maps and illustrations of places

Helsinki

Milan

Istanbul

Close up of popular attractions also visible on the maps.

Milan

Helsinki

Istandbul 

Thinking about making the guide covers diagrammatical the maps I searched had mini illustrations of popular sights and I though this would make for a good background for each and then the most popular attraction would be handrawn at different angles and sizes on the fornt cover and the full jacket would be the shape of the island/place.

These little visuals are exactly how I imagine the final mock up to be, On the side I tested out some handwritten fonts of my own. I particularly liked the bold black letters however because I used the lines to keep them all the same size I like when writing is all different shapes and sizes, it emphasises the'handrawn' effect aswell as making the title a bit more intresting and with the letters being black and bold they stand out against the background.

Refining my visuals I added some colour, I wanted the colours to be soft and not too overwhelming as there is alot going on on the page as it is. The title I wanted to stand out the most so people intrested would see where travel guide is straight away and having little snippets of the sights makes a lot more appealing cause youre seeing what the inside content on the cover. The travel guides I researched I found there was just one picture of a popular attraction on the front and the title and thats it, my version offers more visual information aswell as using the location as the background.

These are the titles I made digitally as I find the tools make it smoother to create shapes and I could then trace it as its still handrawn.

I made a set of coloured visuals noting down what attractions I wanted to have on the front and the overall compostion. I then decided that Istanbul had the best layout for island shape and I liked how I postioned the buildings around the page. However I thought the text should have its own area at the bottom as the clash of colours and things going on would make it hard to read.

After just applying the colour It wasn't enough intensity, I needed to add line work to accentuate everything on the cover switching from a 0.1 thickness to 3.0 thickness fine liner aswell as adding shadows behind the buildings/attractions and heavy title using the brush fineliner creating a 3d effect. The compostion of everything is angled in different ways I think it breaks up an alternative straight 'boring' designs travel guides typically only have one famous location on the front and its all structured and digital text. I think having multiple pictures on the page gives the reader a bit more of an insight into what the place has to offer.