Personalized local guides for your brand, in any city

Your place.Their trip.A guide they keep.

Custom illustrated guides for hotels, resorts, destination brands, museums and other places that welcome families. Created for any city, made in your voice and filled in by your guests.

A Mirador Hotel San Francisco family guide beside hotel-history and Golden Gate Bridge activity spreads
Soft paper
Made to be marked
Why it works

A small object with a long afterlife

Useful during.
Unforgettable after.

A family using an illustrated mission guide while exploring San Francisco

A reason to notice more while they’re there, and remember more when they’re home.

01Useful now

A ready-made way to explore, without asking families to plan another thing.

02Personalized by them

Every mark, answer and drawing makes the object impossible to replace.

03Branded for years

Your place remains part of the memory every time the guide comes off the shelf.

Not a brochure.

A piece of the trip.

History, landmarks, missions, games & memories

Many ways in.
One city to explore.

In any city, every edition draws from a flexible library of content, then adapts the mix, reading level and activities for your place and audience, from younger children to curious teens.

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Your property

The welcome starts with you.

Your architecture, story, neighborhood, voice and visual identity become the opening chapter, not a logo pasted onto somebody else’s guide.

Personalized guide spread integrating a fictional property story, identity and neighborhood map
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City stories

Local history, made irresistible.

We turn the city’s people, places and turning points into a visual narrative curious travelers can understand at a glance.

Illustrated San Francisco history timeline in a saddle-stitched guide
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Landmark missions

Reading becomes looking.

Observation prompts, on-location missions and sketch spaces make the city participatory. The guide changes because the traveler was there.

Child completing a landmark observation mission in an illustrated travel guide
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Games & discovery

The useful kind of play.

Maps, visual searches, food matches, puzzles and scavenger hunts give families an easy way into the city without another screen.

Illustrated city spotting game and map maze inside a guide
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Made by them

It comes home one of one.

Handwriting, drawings, tickets and private discoveries turn a designed guide into their own record of the trip, with your brand still inside.

Completed city guide filled with drawings and travel memories on a family shelf

Not white-label

Actually
yours.

This isn’t a generic guide with your logo on top. Your identity shapes the welcome, routes, stories, palette, voice and play.

See every layer
A guide spread integrating a brand story, architecture and neighborhood
Property story
Visual identity
Local point of view

One format. No house style.

Your world deserves
its own visual language.

Painterly or graphic. Historic or contemporary. Quiet or exuberant. We art-direct every edition to feel native to the brand and nowhere else.

One small guide

Three
big jobs.

A personalized city guide being handed to guests at check-in
01

Guest experience

A thoughtful physical welcome that makes arrival feel considered and gives the trip a shape.

02

Local concierge

Stories, routes and missions that help people explore without adding another screen or itinerary.

03

Brand memory

Their discoveries come home with your brand inside: personal, useful and impossible to duplicate.

Research, illustration and brand materials used to create a local guide

From the brief to the front desk

Made with the rigor of a publication.
Built around you.

01 Listen02 Research03 Create04 Deliver
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We’ll make sample pages for your brand

Give people a reason to remember where it began.