I Reeeeally Want To Go On Holidays Now

Nothing like going through work you did for a travel agent while it’s lashing rain outside to make you want to go away… *sigh*

African Skyscrapers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are some skyscraper web banners (120x600px) I did for Tour Africa, a sister site to Tour America. I wanted to liven up the banners because typically it would be a picture of an animal like a giraffe, elephant, lion or orangutan in the banners because people associate Africa with safaris and exotic animals. These images are easy enough to come by on stock photo websites but I didn’t want to chose all animal based images.

So I trawled Shutterstock for some brighter images that would catch peoples eye. They were harder to find but I wanted show another side of Africa. I don’t think people would immediately assume that the banner on the far right in particular is an African scene. People tend to think of earthy tones, desert landscapes and or savanna plains when they think of Africa. So the blue and green makes it stand out a bit more.

I think the style of the banners was in keeping with Tour Africa’s look but with more vibrancy. I got some tribal vector borders and changed the colours to suit the images. I also used free font, African, in the banners to compliment the subject. Very Lion King altogether I reckon!

Unfortunately, Tour Africa doesn’t exist anymore, so the screen grab above is the best I can do to show how it looked.