Viandar: Custom build with a 3D globe

We designed and built the Shopify store of Viandar, the travel brand of the YouTuber Nova Lectio, from scratch: an interactive 3D globe at the center of the experience and an integration with the management system behind its trips.

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Home page of the Viandar Shopify store at viandar.it: the travel hero with a trip search

Sector: Travel
Services: Store design & build
Integrations & architecture
Platform: Shopify

The brief

Viandar sells small-group trips off the beaten path, from Iraq and Socotra to Mongolia and Laos, each with its own departure dates, duration and price. A travel product does not fit Shopify's native model: dates, departures and availability live in a separate management system, not in a product variant. The brief for a store like this: make people want to travel from the first scroll, and keep the trip data accurate without forcing Shopify past its limits.

How we design and build Shopify stores

What we did

Design from scratch
A custom design for the whole store, built around destinations: trip search by month, the "off the beaten path" and "beyond the postcard" collections, a departures calendar and tour leader pages.
Interactive 3D globe
A 3D animation of the globe as the central element of the user experience, built to evoke travel from the first scroll.
Management-system integration
The store connected to Viandar's external booking and management system, which handles dates, departures and availability.
Custom development
A fully custom build on Shopify, end to end, from the design to launch.

The result

Viandar sells its trips on a Shopify store built around its destinations, with dates and availability coming straight from the system the team already uses.