![]() ![]() I’ll continue to play around with this type of set up. The on-table display did seem to be much better though! It seems like the vertical display gets people’s attention, but then their eyes go to the table and they like to flip through/examine things rather than continuing to scan the vertical display. I switched my button display between day 1 and days 2-3, but they still weren’t getting as much interest as I was hoping. I also experimented with placement for my commission sign, but neither location seemed to deter commissions. We ended up leaving them up the second night with no issues. I also fixed some of my price signs and updated my commission sign with better examples and different wording for my art card commissions, which were super popular this con!īecause it was an ‘open’ Alley that wouldn’t be locked, we ended up taking down all our prints the first night so day 2 and 3 had a slightly different print arrangement. I had to leave some things out (such as my leather books, FATED mini comic after day 1, and my pamphlet book display) to make it more readable and open. At Indy Comic Con I had a full table and had finally nailed the type of display I was going for, so switching back to a half table was a bit of a struggle. So I’ve finally recovered from post-con exhaustion (and the two 13-hour shifts of my day job that followed), so I’ll be catching up on all my MTAC-related posting over the next day and a half!įirst up is my set up throughout the weekend. lolĪtorier ended up gravitating to wood displays, and maiji ended up gravitating to not wanting to bother with large vertical setups.ĭisplays are an ongoing process, and you’ll always come up with better ideas to do things, that work for you, from your own experience!Īny other ideas/suggestions? We’d love to hear from other artists who use wood or other non-PVC pipes/wire cube overhang or backdrop-type large vertical displays! Though the frame could be easily taken apart, after a while we just got tired of lugging around the poles and having to return the laundry racks to our moms.It’s actually pretty lightweight and sometimes billowed about a bit more than expected with people smacking into it or even the air from traffic moving through the convention, almost like a fabric sail (though it never actually fell down).Our original idea to tape prints to it wasn’t reliable, so we actually took to making little tape “tabs” on our prints and then using safety pins to pin them to the fabric. If you don’t have much space behind the table or have to keep everything on the table (which can be a requirement for some events), it won’t work.In theory it was great in practical usage, issues included: We combined 2 laundry racks to create a single frame, and then covered it with a black fabric hood to create a backdrop panel we could attach prints to. Long ago, atorier and maiji experimented with a backdrop display as follows: Of course, always test your contraptions first! You could consider repurposing other household items. You can also experiment and come up with your own ideas! There are other ways to create some sort of overhang or flat panel to attach prints to. Here’s another solution we’ve seen using presentation boards (note that the artist has a caution about instability with this setup) by skimlines: Here’s a discussion on PVC and wire cube setups, as well as an alternative with telescoping aluminum poles by omnomberries: We haven’t tried all of them, but it’s a great place to start! I’d suggest taking a look through our displays tag - there are the usual PVC setups, but also other ones involving boards and more. That said, wire racks can be pretty heavy and require quite a bit of setup and takedown time. Similar to PVC piles, wire cubes are popular because they are more readily available/ready made solutions and are modular. Your experience might be different … and your materials (e.g., type and condition of wood) might be different. In Toronto, our temperature changes are (generally) not super humid, wet or extreme. Phaena notes that depending on where you live and what your environment is like, wood may require more careful storage than other materials to prevent warping, etc. But a well built wood display I find looks better, of course.Ī few photos showing the display with string (so you can see how it droops), and then with a dowel in the centre: Making one out of wood dowels will need some thinking of how to put it together and have it stay together. The pipes are ready-made practically out of the store and come with their own joints. It IS probably easier to make a GOOD PVC set up than it is for a wood one. I’ve never found my wood displays to be that heavy … Neither have they warped on me for racks I’ve used over several years.
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