Monopoly - What a Touristic World 2013

My final year project is finally done and I introduce to you the MONOPOLY - What a Touristic World 2013.
Entirely designed, conceived, illustrated, cut, recut, pasted by myself.

Creation process

Tokens

Bills

Chance Cards

Community Chest Cards

They come with the Mass Tourism Leader Vision glasses, that you can download here and cut by yourself. Wear proudly and be prepared to rule the world.

The concept of the MONOPOLY - What a Touristic World© 2013 is the result of genuine artistic creation and imagination. 

Any resemblance with a famous game or the reality is purely unintentional and absolutely not aforethought. 

The Sir MONOPOLY character is inspired by the pioneer of mass tourism, Thomas Cook. 

He has kindly approved to sign all the Paper Cash Bills.

Presented in LASALLE College of the Arts, not distributed, not meant for sale, for consenting grown-up users only. Attention! Some rules of this game may shock the younger ones for their cruelty towards the poor. 

Contains no nudity -even if the players may end up naked if they decide to sell their personal belongings in case of bankrupt. 

Approved by the Censorship Board of Singapore. 

Colors and parts may vary from those pictured. 

Conceived, designed, printed and edited by Tiphaine Guillermou - 2013

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the Wonders of travel

The tourism industry has standardized the travel experiences so much that it has become a game; the sites are the squares, you just need to add the pieces on it: starred hotels, golf clubs, fast foods and bus tours coming in all-included packages.
You are now ready to see the wonders of the world.

Detail

The wonders of Velcro

Poster with velcro. Comes with a set of monuments + names to be attached on it

THE ABSOLUTE TRAVEL COLLECTION

the empty snow globe

the color bloc souvenirs

the generic postcards

the standardized experience

I'm doing my thesis on the absurdity of mass tourism. I have been working on the things what we see when we travel and turned them into the utmost absurd possible things I could.

This is how I started an absurd collection of visual supports (postcards, souvenirs, monuments, locals) and set them up as pieces of a primitive museum collection. 

I've made a cabinet de curiosité out of it, because the theory I illustrate is that our travel experience is reduced to visiting a living museum where everything is only a representation of the truth.

The touristic industry makes us believe that what we see is authentic but things are nothing but genuine. Even the locals have to act local and dress up to look authentic...