Hospitality Marketing hope to offer smaller B&B’s, Guesthouses and Hospitality business a range of online solutions for their logistical business operations. I’ve been doing many website designs over the last few months, but this is a design that takes it’s direction from very pragmatic needs.

The site is geared towards being open, clean and easy to navigate while also demanding the viewer’s attention. The logo is done in a style that is more natural and photorealistic than I am used to creating.

I had fun creating the contact form because it gave me the opportunity to further explore the style put forth in the logo. I also like how practical it is to have a contact form directly on the landing page while not dominating the layout.

I have 28 sets of the PacMat remaining. Please make your way over to the Products Page and pick up a set.

This infographic is a representation of the comparative price for the entry-level 13˝ MacBook Pro 2.26GHz notebook. I wish I could include information for all 31 countries that I researched. I believe that stripping down the data set to a handful of countries makes the information more digestible. [I don't think that I need to point it out but this isn't a strictly rational graph since it wasn't conceived to be mathematically correct]

I was conviced that South African prices were the highest in the world, owing to the lack of an official Apple presence in the country. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Brazil’s prices were between US$300.00 and US$1,200.00 higher than here. This in a country with official Apple representation no less. [EDIT: In Apple's defence, I must say that from all of the feedback that the numerous postings of this image has received, this price appears to be the result of a high import duty applied to high-involvement purchases.]

Interestingly though, prices for certain MacBook Pro models are cheaper in Hong Kong than they are in the US. This could however be on account of fluctuation of the exchange rate. [EDIT: In fact, because of the tax implications relevant to the different nations, .hk prices are most likely to be cheaper than .us prices. The graphic has been updated to reflect feedback and to correct a major oversight on my part. Thank you for all of the attention, which for the most part has been positive. And to the special little coward from the Lincoln Laboratory at MIT, thank you for your piqued insight.]

Or at least until January. Time to focus on some personal projects.

This is the final product of the style experiment I went through over the past couple of weeks. Considering the corporate toning down of the image, I think it came out rather well and I’m looking forward to seeing it in print.