Lake District Trails.

Lake District Trails.

Beginning to locate the 8 trails for my publication, i have specified the trails to The lake district, this makes it a lot easier to structure the book and choose specific trails.

I have decided to split the trails into 4 separate groups of difficulty, ranging from 1 to 8, These are the trails i will use.

1 . Longsledale Valley Blat cycle route.

'This is a not too technical, mainly off-road blast, up the Longsleddale Valley, which is ideal for those wanting a quiet, painless route with lots of scenery. It can take about 45mins in the dry, but there is also the option to take as long as you like and really enjoy the views.'

2 . Ambleside to Wray Castle and Hawkshead Hill Loop.

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3 . Ambleside Circular via Loughrigg Off Road

4 . Staveley Shap Road.

5 . Whinlatter Loop from Thornthwaite

6 . Langdale Valley Circular.

7 . Buttermere Loop.

8 . Elterwater Loop.

Stock.

I have found some really nice stock to use for the cover of the book, the inside i decided to stick with white matte 130 gsm from the print room, i would liked to use something more like 90 gsm but i'm struggling to find anything close with a nice finish, the stock for the cover has a find tooth to it giving it a wonderful texture and subtle impact.

Not decided what to colour to go with as of yet but i have a select few choices of earthy colours again, if i am keeping the colour ways to green i would choose the green or grey to give the highest impact.

Type.

Considering typefaces and colour to use for this project, i want to explore more serif typefaces for this project while keeping a casual tone of voice and not making it too formal, i feel i have exploited san serif typefaces far too much recently and often disregard serif's.

For colour i would like to use earthy colours throughout and possibly only black and one other colour to keep the design minimal and create easy reading for the audience.

I can't help but pick green, it completely relevant and such a beautiful colour although the rest look really nice as well, black white and green go together perfectly.

As for the typeface i am going to use Georgia - Italic/Italic Bold throughout the book i considered using a sans typeface also but didnt think it would be relevant in the end, Georgia is a serif typeface but a friendly one also, this keeps the book from looking too formal.

Cumbria.

After a quick chat with my parents who informed me they decided to take a trip to the lake district for a weekend, also to do a few bike rides they enjoy, i felt it neccesary to have my book only showcasing trails around a specified area, and seen as though Cumbria is well known for all of it's terrain and beautiful sights it would be a perfect are to base my book on.

Bicycles.

Looking further into my self initiated brief for different routes to take, at first i wanted to create a zine/book showcasing various different types of bikes, their functions and styles but began to realise there are a lot of categories and sub categories also, thus creating a barrier in terms of design direction etc, i decided to round my idea to cycling routes around the UK.

I created 4 simple vectors to base my overall design around, these symbolise the difficulty from easy to hard.

Printed Flyers.

finished the design of my flyers and printed them, they turned out so much better than expected within the icons they create really nice patterns and fit perfectly with Issey's designs, managed to finish quite a lot this week and produce more work than i thought i could,really enjoyed this brief and working with my partner.

Snellen Chart.

Eye chart.

My final printed eye chart, i felt it necessary to print onto tracing paper as it is similar to what is found for snellen charts, i also didnt feel any colour was needed.