When you need to get away for the weekend ( and still look like a creative ). As a designer you like elements to go together, to look complimentary and your personal travel elements should get as much attention as your client's project. There are a few simple ways to make the ordinary a little special. A little more you. That you with the Queen of the Jungle Panty Set.
Going away for the weekend ( three days ) is different from going away for five or seven. The needs are different, stricter and more urgent.
travel•buddy is just letting you know what has worked for me, a list of things to make the journey and the stay practical and enjoyable with a great design sense. There are hundreds of magazines, websites, blogs and books out there telling you what to buy and where to go.
You just have to Google them.
It's getting warmer ( we hope ) and thoughts of travel are upon us.
Where to go?
How far to go for a weekend trip?
When to go?
Who to take along? Should I go by myself?
( the choice of a travel buddy is just as important as the choice of a good pair of walking shoes )
The Weekend Away
a weekend travel bag with
• toiletries
( place each bottle or tube in a small ziplok bag. You will thank me later )
All those samples you've gotten in the mail and from friends, now is the time to use them.
• an outfit for going and coming back
This could be the same outfit with a different t-shirt. Add one other shirt
• a jacket, if it could double as a raincoat or anorak, great!
• one pair of comfortable shoes matching
• a simple dress or skirt for dining out
• a pair of underwear for each day of your stay and two more
• a pouch for travel documents and maps
• a water bottle. If you take your own bottle, you will drink more water than if you remember to be thirsty and then buy a bottle
• a sketch book or a journal. Use this getaway as a catharsis
You will be carefree when you get back to work on Monday
• camera and its needs ( film, chips, cords etc. )
• a good book or music player
• maps, research and some very flexible plans for when you get there
that's it.
The choice of a weekend bag is a personal thing. It depends on your preference, of travel style. And come on, be creative.
Choose a non-traditional bag, good for travel and then accessorize with a few well designed pieces. Same goes for the toiletries bag and the document pouch.
I can give you a list of websites to look. Places to search for your personal travel style, but it all depends on what you like.
Make the individual pieces look like part of a collection. Your collection.
Pick a colour, pick an aesthetic and look for the pieces you need,
For example, you can go vintage travel.
Search for one of those 1970's travel document pouches given free by travel agents.
Then a Pan Am ( or some other defunct airline ) carry-on travel bag
Get yourself one of those boxy leather cosmetics cases.
Very nice start. Pick a complimentary luggage tag and you are set to go.
Here is a list of a few suggested places to look for very cool and not highly decorated stuff.
These are the ones I check first —
• www.flight001.com — check out their black F1 overnighter, the Maxx New York Overnight bag,
the brown basic dopp kit, or the makeup case, the brown passport and document set. Take a look, there are choices for every price range.
• www.ebags.com — they have a wide variety. Look here for bargins.
• www.cb2.com — has some accessories which could glamourize a plain travel bag.
I like their travel first aid and sewing kits, the mini maxi black shopper and the hotel luggage tags ( which as a designer you could probably create yourself, ha ha ha ha )
• www.target.com — target has a "red hot shop" where there are a few things which may be to your taste and may match your set, try it and see. Their 360° Tender Bag is a good starting point. With a few red accessories from Flight001 ( keep the hue and tones consistent ), you are good to go. Use Target to shop for that great travel outfit. Choose linen, silk or cotton. These are easy to roll up, easy to wash out and comfortable.
When you are all packed up and you lift that bag, it shouldn't be heavy.
If it is, you are taking way too much with you, literally and metaphorically.
Believe me. When I say you won't need that extra pair of jeans and socks and pajamas ( sleep nude or in a tank top and underwear ), you're on a little weekend vacation! Go!
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