GTALug and Trade Shows.

John Van Ostrand john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org
Wed May 30 18:04:01 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:33 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> So professional, cheap, and easy to carry around.  Is this one of those
> 'pick any two of these three' cases?  That is, is this like 'fast,
> cheap, good, pick any two you want'?

Creativity can go a long way. The BSD booth was quite good. I think that
graphic was more than a couple hundred dollars, but it was effective.
The very cool graphics was the entire thing that made that work. Of
course the women in devil horns and tails helped out a lot too.

So take a panel (graphic or velcro,) add some structural creativity and
you have a booth. For example, take a canvas graphic panel like BSD had
(or a velcro loop fabric) and use tent-like fibreglass rods linked
together at the corners, keeping the panel taut. Plug that into a simple
base and you've got a very portable pop-up that essentially folds into a
small suitcase.

I even think you could do that with a large circle. Hem a fabric circle,
put a flexible fibreglass rod inside the seam around the circumference
and crimp the ends together to complete the loop. Close it up like one
of those pop-up tents by folding it into a figure 8. I don't know if
it's possible but a 10' circle may just "fold up" into a 3' or 4' loop.
With the right graphics it could look pretty cool too.

For fliers we picked up a sheet metal magazine rack (IKEA again) that is
supposed to be attached to a wall and instead built a little A frame out
of aluminum angle stock (secured by pop-rivets) so it stood up by
itself. In fact it looked good enough to sit in the Net Direct
conference room between shows.

The TAUG booth used bar stool high chairs and cafe tables from IKEA.
Their not too portable, but the idea was that it was for customer to
sit. Often it was staff resting though, but that's far better than
standard chairs. I'm sure that some higher chairs like that could be
found that fold up.

If you have the time and the effort to source all these exotic materials
I'm pretty sure you can get something very good for a little more than
your budget.

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