This book cover is for a romance novel set in 1904. Due to the disparate images the author and publisher asked us to include in this cover, I needed some way to unite them. As my unifying element, I chose collage. I used schematics from patent applications (but recolored them in blue to match the dress) as well as to a period-appropriate illustration of a woman and bicycle. For the illustration, the color of the dress and hair were changed to match the main character of the story. The schematic drawings are also used as framing elements (in the case of the publisher’s logo on the back cover) and the as a unifying element (the use of a schematic to replace the back wheel of the bicycle on the spine and back cover). (2024)