Three agencies, six new directions
You asked for something out of the box: three agencies, two options each, all built differently, bold and beautiful, less text, more travel. Agency one is a Silicon Valley studio treating Travalong as a lifestyle brand; agency two a European creative agency where everything is aesthetics; agency three a young designer in Tokyo, Seoul or Mumbai. The earlier four stay below, U without its gold lines.
Open each page on a laptop and on your phone. A bar at the bottom switches between all ten and the study. Nothing on the live site has changed.
Agency one · Silicon Valley, a lifestyle brand
A little more colour to our lives. Bold, soothing, alive.
Golden Hour
Every trip remembered as a light: a sequence of full bleed photographs, each section taking its colour from its own picture, the page changing light as you scroll. Instrument Serif with Geist, coral pills. Photographic and cinematic.
Open V1
The Almanac
Typographic and graphic: one bold ultramarine, big words that cycle through travel verbs, circular photo stamps, the months as a marquee you swipe. Bricolage Grotesque with a Newsreader italic. Graphic and playful.
Open V2Agency two · Europe, all about aesthetics
Minimalist pastel, as beautiful as it can be, one tint on screen at a time.
The Year
The homepage as a year you scroll: each departure a full screen in its own pastel, the ground crossfading from month to month, photographs graded like faded film. Instrument Serif with Hanken Grotesk. Colour as the seasons passing.
Open E1
White Page
A gallery wall: white, black type, all the pastel inside the photographs, and one powder blue poster of nine giant month initials that open into the departures. Bodoni Moda with Jost. The quietest and most precise.
Open E2Agency three · Asia, a young designer making a mark
Japanese quiet, Korean precision, one idea per page.
One Thread
A single hairline thread runs down the page and draws itself as you scroll; every section hangs from it like a knot; the months carry their Indian names in Devanagari. Zen Old Mincho with Manrope. The most poetic.
Open A1
The Dial
A museum drawer on an exact hairline grid with one lapis blue, and the season as a dial of months you turn with a finger. Shippori Mincho with Manrope caps. The most tactile.
Open A2The earlier four
Kept as they were. U without its gold lines.
What is the same on all ten
- The same words, lighter on the six new pages: every line comes from the one master copy, but the optional lines are dropped, your letter opens behind "Read the letter" (whole, word for word), the six trips carry titles only, and three to five of the five messages are shown. The earlier four keep the fuller copy.
- The same rules: your wordmark with the complete t and no pin, The Other Land prices shown (₹1,25,000 Sri Lanka, ₹2,00,000 Morocco, "Price coming soon" for the rest), no coordinates, no "luxury", no hyphens or dashes, Google Fonts only.
- Phone first: 52px buttons, both ways to travel on one phone screen, the next departure inside the first two screens, the season reaching its ninth departure, no sideways scroll, a WhatsApp bar that hides while you type.
- Motion by transform and opacity only, one signature moment per page, respected reduced motion, and a static fallback so nothing is ever blank.
Verification record
Each of the six new pages was checked by its builder and then again by me, independently, at 1440 and 390 wide, with every screen of the phone scroll looked at by eye.
| Check | V1 | V2 | E1 | E2 | A1 | A2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horizontal overflow, off screen, overlapping or clipped text | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Text over photos failing contrast on four stress photos | 0 of 77 | none on photos | none on photos | none on photos | 0 of 1 | none on photos |
| Your letter, word for word (10 blocks) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Prices shown: ₹1,25,000, ₹2,00,000, "Price coming soon" three times | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Hyphens or dashes, the word luxury, coordinates, seat count in hero | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Broken or missing pictures, console errors | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Both ways on one phone screen, season reaches 9 of 9, 52px buttons | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
B, S, T and U were verified in round twelve; U was checked again after its gold frames came off (0 issues). A1 reports one near miss on purpose: the stamp photograph sits inside its perforated frame.
Round thirteen (30 Oct): you asked for three agencies and six out of the box directions. Before building, 48 lifestyle brands and creative agencies were opened at phone size and their type and colour read from the live code; one brief per agency, two pages each, built from fresh documents. Three things found and fixed on my pass: a lower case pill that turned "WhatsApp" into "whatsApp" on V2, the studio lines running together in E2's footer, and season photographs on A1 that stayed grey until they reached mid screen.