The Hometown Tourist Website
Hometown Tourist Logo
Hometown Tourist website
The Hometown Tourist:
- Launched in 2008
- Flash site
About the project:
When Susan Allenback (aka the Hometown Tourist) and I first met about creating her website, we had a lot of big ideas – and working with her throughout the entire process was incredible, we kept fostering the big ideas and went for a total concept site using Flash (you can see it at thehometowntourist.net). The initial inspiration was to fashion the site like you’re flipping through the pages of a travel journal, where you can discover a new place that she had visited and is writing about, then all the info you need to go visit it yourself is right there. I spent months photographing and scanning journals, scraps of paper, stamps, and piecing it all together in Photoshop, then building it out with animations and transitions in Flash. The biggest challenge was balancing the look and feel of the site with usability – we wanted it to be fun and colorful and at the same time clear and simple to use. You can catch Susan on MidDay with Dan Rodricks on WYPR (88.1 FM in Baltimore) where she does her Hometown Tourist radio spot each week, and hopefully you’ll find some inspiration to go Hometown Touring yourself!
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