SF 2013 - initial mockups

Our very initial mock ups for the alternative travel guide looking at using some designs done over summer. These designs incorporated a red rectangle in the bottom right of all the pages, from cover to cover. We felt this was a nice touch but wanted to have on the actual guide in a more tactile fashion than printing. So we decided that having a wrap around the front cover would provide a nice dash of colour to the greyboard covers aswell as a good space for information on the inside cover of the book.

We did some foil tests on the wrap to see whether we could achieve a nice consistent white as we initially wanted the text on the wrap to be white.  

 However the foil test was particularly unsuccessful and we decided that the black on the wrap looked better against the greyboard anyway.

We also attempted a fairly rudimentary perfect bind, simply holding the pages together and gluing along the edge of all the pages a number of times. This worked for the mock up at least.

The greyboard mockups with the wraps applied, the example on the right was attached using tape as we had not yet decided on the way that the cover would be attached to the body of the book. However I think these mock ups are a good start all the same.