Know-How Exchange : Advertising/PR

Hello, everyone!

Now I really need a help of a collective mind. I believe you may come up with great ideas!

I have been currently working on a translation company website. The website is going to be translated into several languages, at least 10.

Here is the list:

Spanish
French
Chinese
Haitian-Creole
Portuguese
German
Japanese
Russian
Korean
Vietnamese
Italian

I have created a very nice professional layout, but I would say that the graphics is static: the same layout on every page. I prefer it this way, because it helps a better recognition of a company Internet image. But the owner's request is to implement Flash and variety of graphic expression in the project. Well, we will be able to implement Flash later: it takes time, and I want to launch the project by September.

But in addition to that the owner wants me to decorate each page for the foreign language in a different way. He even wants to decorate every page in a different way, but I would not do that. I will insist on keeping the colors and markup the same, but what I really need is to add some images which will represent the cultures, languages or the countries to add some variety to the translated pages.

I don't want to use images of people, because all images have to look similar and give an impression of a unified style, but we can't afford taking pictures of models.

I also don't want to use flags, because it's beaten. I used the globe image in the header, but I am willing to replace it with something, because it's even heavy beaten in the context of translation services.

So, basically, I need some unified group of images representing different countries (cultures, languages) which will be logically connected, preferably the objects I can photograph myself (I am a photographer with professional camera).

I would really appreciate your input!

Thank you!

Natalia.