I'm starting to print and distribute flyers that look like http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/prius-flyer.gif in the interest of getting more people interested in Prius and other hybrid tech. The first thing they get upon hitting the URL on the paper is a big link-farm to all the "standard" resources many of us are aware of. . I figure they're suitable for giving people curious about hybrids, or for leaving on windshields of Priuses and Hummers alike. Heh. . Opinions? Art criticism? Is it all too techie for the vast majority of the market? The idea is to promote better understanding of the systems and subtleties. I know that some other people were doing similar one- pagers before, such as john1701's cards. . _H*
It is nice. A color version would look good also. It doesn't quite fit a full letter sized page in landscape orientation when printed directly from your site. Is that intentional?
Color would be lovely if I had a color printer ready at hand, but at the moment that's not the case. They're being ground out on my ol' workhorse laserwriter... . The image is 800x600, which seems to map nicely to my own printer. You may have to resize to match yours; this sort of thing seems to be a common enough problem that I'm not going to try fixing it on my end. . "Art" clarification -- I didn't do either drawing. The ghost view is from some Toyota site, I think, and the patent is, well, the patent from freepatentsonline.com or uspto.gov. I just jammed 'em together. . I think the larger idea I'm getting at here is that people might have fun taking images like this, slapping their own URL-farms on them, and spreadin' the love. So if other folks come up with cool one-pagers of this sort maybe this thread could turn into a nice collection of them. . _H*
Before you go printing and distributing or putting on your own website...I'd check with the copyright holder of whatever images, et al, you're "borrowing". The fact you are not selling the flyers or making any money does not invalidate copyright.
Okay, I think I need a different sort of flyer that I can stick under wipers of huge SUVs in parking lots [heh, if I can *reach* that high in some cases]. Something that provokes thought right up front [and in those people, that's a real challenge] and causes them to actually read it rather than toss it on the ground and blast away in a cloud of dead dinosaurs. Something reasonably non-confrontational but very to the point, that doesn't even necessarily point to a Prius specifically but just brings home the point that freedom != consumption. . The fake "tickets" are funny but possibly send the wrong message up front, i.e. spanking them right away without giving any chance to learn and change first. . Yeah, this is getting way off topic.. . _H*
So, when I come out to my SUV that I only drive a few hundred miles on summer vacations to tow my boat/trailer that holds my 7 children, I find another piece of 'spam' on my legal vehicle. Build your website and have Google point to it if you wish, otherwise, please do not assault my vehicle or intelligence with your litter-to-be. Toyota spends millions to sell and educate people, our governments steal our money to penalize gas-guzzlers; I think that your approach (intelligently worded as it may be) and/or those fake enviro tickets may enrage more than help. Just my $1.298/ 2 cents adjusted for inflation
