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Category Archives: Travel Writing
Bloomsbury, Soho & South Kensington
The American fashion retailer J Crew has recently celebrated the addition of three London shops—including a flagship Regent Street store—by teaming with the ultra-hip Wildsam Field Guide publishers (see TBTP 12/8/13) to produce co-branded travel guide books for three London neighborhoods. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Bloomsbury, London, SoHo
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Passion for Postcards
The Boston Public Library has uploaded more than 90,000 images to their Flickr page in 380 different sets. One of my favorites is a wonderful, nostalgic collections of over 25,000 postcards of U.S. sites. The linen textured, colored postcards were … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA
Tagged Asbury Park New Jersey, Chicago, Las Vegas, South Dakota
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Love Travel Guides
I was recently researching India travel guidebooks and stumbled across the beautiful, hand-crafted books from the Love Travel Guides series. Founder and publisher, Fiona Caulfield, believes that “Falling in love with a city is just as exciting as falling in … Continue reading
Travel Is More Than Seeing Sights
To celebrate their 25th anniversary in the travel biz, Australia’s Intrepid Travel commissioned a moving film titled “Travel Is More Than The Seeing of Sights”. The wonderful little video was filmed over the course of 1 ½ years in 12 different … Continue reading
No Luggage Required
The luxury retailer Louis Vuitton has been slowly rolling-out a collection of limited edition travel books that is being sold in its boutiques. Each of the guides is being illustrated by a different international artist. The initial four books in … Continue reading
A Portrait of the City (a little delayed)
Regular visitors to TBTP know that I’m inordinately fond of old travel guidebooks, whimsical book illustrations and tales of eastern European intrigue. Of course I couldn’t pass-up a crazy story that I ran across the other day that has all … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged Czechoslovakia, New York City, Prague, Travel Guidebooks
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A new Type of Tourism Campaign
Lisbon, Portugal has launched a unique tourism campaign utilizing its iconic tram lines and overhead electrical wires. Lisbon’s ad agency, Leo Burnett Lisboa, has created a new font called LX Type that is based on the tram lines, where letters … Continue reading
Reading Roadtrip
Celebrating its 120th anniversary this year, Vroman’s in Pasadena is Southern California’s oldest and largest independent bookstore. The popular bookshop recently installed a clever display called “Read your way across the USA”. The shelf display presents books that are set in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged Bookstores, indie bookstores
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Walk This World
Lotta Nieminen is a Helsinki-based artist, illustrator and graphic designer. Her witty and whimsical work has appeared in dozens of publications and advertisements. You may have seen some of her maps, such as the one she did of Paris for … Continue reading
