Hipmunk homepage Search Backgrounds

Hipmunk was a travel metasearch engine known for it’s unique UI sort feature, and it’s cheeky chipmunk mascot, Chippy. Like many tech startups during the 2010s, Hipmunk used an illustrative mascot to humanize software, build brand recognition, and set a friendly tone for it’s visual identity and marketing.

The home page is a website’s most important digital real estate. I created a library of backgrounds to correspond with the seasons and holidays and created custom illustrations for other companies to partner with Hipmunk.

 

Outdated Default Homepage Background

Updated Default Homepage Background

background illustration library

Summer time adventure

Get lost in autumn

Feeling beachy keen

Dive into summer

St. Patrick’s Day

SF Bay Area Valentine’s Day

Hipmunk Halloween

 

CUSTOM Homepage partnerships

This project created a new opportunity for ad revenue by creating custom homepage illustrations for third-party partners. The home page became a premium spot for third-party custom illustration advertisements.

Skyroam Partnership (Wi-fi anywhere)

ParkWhiz Partnership (Park anywhere)