Paris, Le Quatrième

As you can see, the last day in Paris was dominated by the most famous landmark in the world, the Eiffel Tower. The first stop was Place du Trocadéro for an elevated view of the tower. Then I walked towards the tower and over the Seine. The queues are long to go up the tower itself so as you can see by the third picture, it was dark by the time I came down.

The second photograph is a view from the very top of the tower to the gardens below.

The last photograph is of the very last evening in Paris. It was topped off with a carafe of wine on the heated terrace of a local restaurant in Montmartre whilst nibbling on meringue from the patisserie around the corner. I didn’t expect wine and meringue to go so well together!

New York Customer Evening Facebook Promotion

This was a welcome page that I designed for the Tour America facebook page. I went for an asymmetric layout for the text. This was part of a series of promotional materials that I mad for this specific campaign. I also designed the facebook profile picture below and an ebulletin that I have already posted.

I was only in Tour America a week or two when I designed these pieces.  much prefer the welcome page to the ebulletin I designed for this, which I already posted. Mostly because this is simpler with less information to communicate.

New York Customer Evening Ebulletin

This was an ebulletin I made for an in-store customer evening at Tour America. I was really drawn to the beautiful photograph of New York and so I based the colour scheme around it. The font is American Typewriter, chosen because it is a font associated with New York City as it features in the I♥NY logos. The bottom half of the ebulletin is not my design and is basically a footer that had to be attached to most of the ebulletins sent out.

I also designed other materials to as part of this particular New York promotion such as flyers, banners and facebook welcome pages.

NCL Newspaper Advert

This was a newspaper advertisement that I made for Cruise Holidays during my time interning at Tour America. I did do another print ad for Cruise Holidays but I pretty much hate it so I haven’t decided whether to put it up yet. I know everything I post is not all amazing or anything, but that one I particularly hate. This one however, I particularly love!

It’s based on the other designs from the same offer that the travel agent was pushing that week and I was just proud of the design itself. More about that here if you’re interested!

Paris, Le Troisième

This was actually my fourth day in Paris but I didn’t want to put the photos of me goofing around Disneyland up, I’ll save that stuff for Facebook!

The plan was to visit The Louvre that day. So I took the metro to Tuileries, had a crêpe at a stall by the entrance, wandered Place de la Concorde opposite the garden entrance, walked through the gardens and saw L’Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, then onto Musée du Louvre.

I have heard people talk at length about how disappointing the Mona Lisa is. I don’t think those people appreciate art or history so. It’s more important than its size. Having said that, it did irritate me how many bloody tourists were all over it! I mean I know everyone wants a look, but stop hogging it with your big head please. Look, and then make way for the million other people in the queue! *rant rant rant* I think I was more excited to see the Venus de Milo to be honest. Maybe because of the Gummy Venus episode of The Simpsons. Oh yeah. I went there. Classic art to modern cult viewing. TV can be educational!

Anyway, after the Louvre, I went on to the Pompidou Center to see the modern art collection. Along the way, I stopped off to see the Fontaine des Innocents which is the last picture above.

Tour America Welcome Page

This was a generic welcome page that I designed for the Tour America facebook page. The welcome page is the image a facebook user sees before they have liked the page and become a follower of the group. When there isn’t any particular offer or promotion on, a generic image will be used to showcase Tour Americas most popular destinations. So this was my offering that would have been used in conjunction with a similarly designed facebook profile picture, which you can see here.

And again, it appears to be another addition to my accidental Liberia series of designs. *facepalm*

Africa Offer Banners

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are some more web banners (300x250px) I did for Tour Africa while it was still operating during my time interning at Tour America. I kept to the style that I had developed to help infuse colour into the banners. However, I did experiment with asymmetric layout for one of them, just for a change. See more of my Tour Africa banners here and here.

NCL Sale Ebulletin

This was an ebulletin I designed for a sale that Cruise Holidays had on in conjunction with Norwegian Cruise Line. It’s one of my favourites that I made. I also designed a number of other materials of the same theme for the promotion itself besides this ebulletin. You can read more about the designs here.

Tour America UK Banners

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are two small web banners I did during my time at Tour America for their UK website Tour America Direct. The ads had to be made very quickly so essentially I just chose some simple images from Shutterstock that would still allow me the space to fit in all the necessary information. I felt that if I used a photo of the destination that it would be too busy to I chose the suitcase vector to allow for more white space.

Paris, Le Duexième

So these are more of my black and white Paris photos. This was my second day in the city and I tried to fit in as much as possible. Breakfast outside a patisserie in Montmartre, a visit to Notre Dame cathedral, sampled Paris’s best hot chocolate, climbed L’Arc de Triomphe, walked the Avenue des Champs Elysées, browsed the Christmas markets and that night I went to see a jazz band in a restaurant close to my hotel.

That’s another thing about Paris, the music. I said in my last post how black and white photos just suit Paris. Jazz music just suits Paris too. It made me feel like I was in a movie. Even on the first day, there was a busking band of old folks doing jazzy tunes at the side of the street. They even had a little old lady tap dancing with them. It was so funny because she was giving it loads. Shame I don’t have a picture of that one!

So above we have the interior of Notre Dame cathedral showing the nave and vaulting, the hot chocolate presentation at Café de Flore, a view of Paris from the top of L’Arc de Triomphe and another carousel at the Christmas market along Les Champs Elysées.