I am a digital nomad. This means I travel alot. Before my very first big overseas, multi-destination trip, my parents asked me to make them a travel calendar they could use as the background on their tablet devices. As a graphic designer, this task is super easy. So I made some backgrounds in Illustrator. I figured they need to know city and flight/bus details. I thought I would throw in the visual reference of flags.
The desktop size of my laptop is much greater and I really liked how a travel calendar is a way of knowing where I was now, and what was coming up. I used the additional widescreen area to put some key photos (found on Google) that inspired me about visiting these locations.
This year when going on another long-extended multi-destination trip, I did the same travel calendar for friends and family. I was super glad to have made it easy to work with as I went through adding the new flags and locations. This time the trip was a lot slower so there is lots of duplication. (I walked 500km on the Camino de Santiago).
But at the end of this trip, I had no home base to go back to and so many choices of my next adventure, I wasn’t sure how to express this. So I used fades and question marks.
The artboard in my Illustrator document has all the various goodies or elements to drag around as I need them. Super easy.
If you want something similar, contact me and we can discuss your specifics. I offer the ability to use this standard design or have a custom design made just for you. Select the option in the Paypal widget and you will be sent the link to the form to get your details.
