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Very Mountain

Year
2024
industry
Travels

Breathe fresh air, experience the mountains differently

Very Mountain starts where most booking platforms stop, and Brand Appart handled the travel website design that makes the difference visible. Once travelers have booked their essentials, the platform fills the stay itself: activities designed for families, friends or couples, so they can relax, unwind and rediscover the mountains.

The promise sits in the baseline, breathe fresh air and experience the mountains differently, and the site had to deliver it on screen: less inventory, more anticipation of the getaway to come.

The challenge

Selling the stay, not the room

For Very Mountain, the perfect getaway is about more than where you stay. The site had to shift the visitor's attention from booking logistics to what the days will actually feel like, which is the opposite of how most travel sites are built.

Three ways to travel, one journey

Families, friends and couples come to the mountains for different moments. The experience had to speak to all three without splitting into separate journeys or flattening them into one generic traveler.

Fresh air, on a screen

The brand promise is to breathe fresh air and experience the mountains differently. A website has no air. Design, 3D and motion had to carry the sensation the copy promises.

Deliverable

A getaway you can feel before you leave.

We designed the web experience end to end, with creative direction, art direction, and 3D and motion design giving the mountains their presence on screen. The structure follows the traveler's logic: book your essentials, then build the moments around them, with activities for families, friends or couples woven into the flow.

The principle is one we hold across projects, Oléa included: the visitor should understand the offer before scrolling past the fold.

Result

The mountains, rediscovered on screen.

A visitor lands on Very Mountain and immediately gets the proposition: the stay is the beginning, not the whole trip. Relaxation, activities and the promise of fresh air read within the first screens, whether the visitor is planning with family, with friends or as a couple.

The site sells the getaway the way the brand defines it, as every moment of the stay rather than a room and two dates.

Questions
we actually get

What is Very Mountain?

Very Mountain is a mountain getaway platform. Once travelers have booked their essentials, it helps them enjoy every moment of the stay with activities designed for families, friends or couples, so they can relax, unwind and rediscover the mountains.

What makes travel website design different for a brand like Very Mountain?

The product is a feeling. Most travel sites optimize for inventory and dates, while Very Mountain sells what happens after the booking, so the design has to build anticipation and let the visitor picture the getaway before committing to it.

What did Brand Appart deliver?

The design of the Very Mountain web experience, with creative direction and art direction from Brand Appart's team, and 3D and motion design bringing the mountain setting to life on screen.

Why use motion and 3D on a travel site?

Because the promise is sensory. Very Mountain's baseline is to breathe fresh air and experience the mountains differently, and static pages struggle to carry that. Motion and 3D give the screen some of the depth and calm the destination itself offers.

Who is the site designed for?

Families, friends and couples planning a mountain stay. The experience addresses all three without splitting into separate journeys: each finds activities designed for their kind of trip within the same clear structure.

Credits

Creative Director
Art Director
3D & Motion Designer
Project Manager
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