SpaceShare Green Travel -- carpool, community building
SpaceShare Green Travel builds ride- and room-share tools for festivals and conferences. Our sister effort Verdant Event builds complete websites for conferences with greening tools integrated.
Current Status:
I think we're setting on the current overall design, and now have a ton of brainstorm-ideas. So now, advice needs to orient towards specific pictures for specific locations on specific pages. Without someone taking the lead on this, we're just collecting notes for now.
1 -- How thorough a search has been made of iStockPhoto? I see 2200 festival related photos, tons of conference...
2 -- Has anyone searched our allies and similar festivals for good festival shots? They're very likely to give us permission if we give them attribution.
3 -- Laura, can you comb the Organic Athlete site for the athletic photo[s] we'll use?
Some websites to look at...
I have a whole bunch (and I'd recommend keeping bookmarks of sites you like if you're going to dip into design), here's a very simple, cheap design that I think works:
http://baeerfair.org/index.html
Here are my notes from diving in to iStockPhoto. Together let's improve this page (cleaning it up while adding more resources).
Artist mixes a leaf with another image... perhaps we could create or find a meeting/festival image and generate something similar?
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/illustrations-vectors/vector-ico...
There are a near infinite variety of rows of people in a crowd images that could be used as bordering. And chairs set up for a conference.
Tall rectangular festival images... possibly rotate with conference images?
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/illustrations-vectors/vector-bac...
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/illustrations-vectors/vector-bac...
Wedding Celebration
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/celebrations-holidays/weddings/4...
Tickets
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/arts-and-entertainment/cinema/62...
Festival tents.
Let's get an image of a bare-foot for travelers, and a microphone for planners? We can use it for bullets?
Conference Centers:
not the right image, but interesting building: Armadillo Conference Center in Scottland
Orange County -- great vertical, green-looking conference center
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/architecture-and-buildings/archi...
Chairs and microphone
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/business/business-meetings/44688...
Very vertical (otherwise boring) blue chairs
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/arts-and-entertainment/theatre/4...
Ballroom interior (wedding?)
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/architecture-and-buildings/42527...
Two green seats in a row of reds
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/concepts-and-ideas/modern-life/3...