Displays for booth for festivals and fairs

OKay, I think I have gone completely over the edge with this, but here is what I'm working on for my festival booth:

I have bought sheets of 4' x 8' corrugated plastic (light and waterproof!) and cut them into the shape of a castle. I will attach the edges to the legs of the canopy, and string my banner across the top. On the front of the castle "towers" I will velcro laminated photos of my faces. The photos will be in the shape of "stones" that will hopefully give the impression of stonework on the front of the castle On the inside leg, I will velcro mirrors for the kids to look at themselves as they leave. In the rear of the canopy, I will string my display photos on vinyl so that once inside the tent and sitting in my chair, they can just point to the face they want and I can also glance at it easily for reference.

I'm a designer, so of course I had to lay this out in my design software to see how it would look I didn't want to take the time to put all the photos on the displays, but you get the jist:



Have I totally lost it? I want to attract attention to the booth, and I think this just might do it!! LOL (My husband thinks I'm insane but is loving it LOL!)

So you don't think I'm insane? Of course, I probably fit in well with all the other insane face painters here LOL!

And here is the layout if we have 2 face painters and a glitter tattooist and line manager (see, MeLisa, I have room for you!!).......

dang, you will need a truck to haul all your gear!

That is cool... and for a festival set-up would be very eye-catching.

Now show us how you transport it!!

It is way cute! And yeah, let us know how you transport.

brill.
Just make sure you factor in the wind-catching ability of the flat castle side and add extra ground bars or whatever.

I was at a really windy event once and had to take my walls down as even heavy duty extra stakes/ tie downs AND ground bars weren't making me feel safe. Something grazed my shoulder and a kid screamed and it was a nearby booth taking off and landing on the (being deflated!) bouncy castle!!!
Cat x

Well, the good thing about this set up is, it's in sections that will fasten together on site The corrugated plastic sheets are in pieces that are no larger than 2' x 8' and are really light. I'll be attaching the photos on once the castle is set up (velcro) and the castle is attached to the booth with velcro straps. I will have a support bracket holding up the taller pieces, since they are so light and the banner is heavy vinyl and kind of heavy (the banner is actually attached to the brackets, not the castle turrets).

I have a mini van that I can take the benches out in the back, so I have tons of space to haul everything. The castle is really the lightest part of the whole set-up. And I really don't have to worry much about wind here... the only time we get much wind is when we have a hurricane LOL! But everything will be anchored down well, just in case. If worst comes to worst and it gets really windy for some reason, I can always take down the castle and just leave the front banner, since I will still have displays inside across the back wall

I'm very excited... my first festival is on March 13 so I'm trying to get it all ready. I have to practice a set up in the back yard to see how long it will take to get it all up, so I'll take pictures of the 'real' thing then

I'm a designer so I can't help being very detailed with this stuff! Here's my design if anyone wants to use it... I've already gotten 2 more festivals to give me a prominent spot by showing them the 3D design of this- they love it! Very eye-catching.





The largest pieces are 2' x 8' and will just fit in the mini-van
Everything else will go together on-site- fairly quickly, I hope!
Now, to finish building the thing!

were you some sort of design major in a past life?

In my 'regular" life, I design houses to the new stringent coastal building codes since Hurricane Katrina

WOW ! You have the skills to pay the bills. Nice setup !

Love the castle design, very eye catching!
Just a thought I had...... last show I was at we were working with an airbrush tattoo artist, he had pull up banners with all his designs out the front of the booth, I noticed the booths that had the designs all displayed up the back of the booth/tent (where you had to go in to see) were empty. People were noticing the designs as they walked past and then deciding to come in.
It also allowed the others waiting to pick their designs while the booth was full of people being painted.
I prefer to work with the designs in my view - my memory is not by friend - so I usually double up, I have pics on display and in a book.
I also think it's really important to put a sign up or somewhere on your photo display that says they can have anything they can imagine, so they know they are not limited to the designs you put up....... stops you painting the same spider man, tiger and butterfly all day.
I must say I saved the picture of Lone's display that is on her website because I thought it looked really professional, it wasn't to big (granted she didn't have a tent set up) and it looked easy to manage.

While I'm hear can I just say to Wildcatfin - I love your website, and your work, I have learnt a lot from your posts and information on your site so THANKYOU! I'm just starting to get into airbrushing and I have a gig this weekend doing a masquerade in a club so all your advice on working in clubs has been priceless. Hope I'm as good as you and as successful as you one day, you've given me something to aspire too.

Dawn, your design Rocks!! Loving it and no I don't think your crazy! But you and I are two pees in a pod, and just have to go all the way with stuff, lol! And then you thought of me!! I must admit, I looked at the date to see when you posted to see if it was before or after we spoke. Then I was like yikes, where will she put me? Can't beleive I even doubted ya, I so sorry!

It is important to really stand out and I know that will work like a charm! I do want to warn ya tho, it can get windy. I know you wouldn't have thunk it but it does. And especially if you ever do anything close to the beach. Ya get that good seabreeze going and your flying with the seaguls! I did one show last fall where we was set up in a parking lot, therefor nothing to anchor to. Several times our tent wanted to take flight! The promoters anticipated the problem and had sand bags for us but it still wanted to fly! There was one lady there with $200-$500 paintings and one of them fell over and the frame of the canvas broke. Needless to say she packed up and went home. Just a little heads up so you can get that design mind of your's going! The set up is too good to let a little wind bring ya down.

Wow, I'm just so excited!! Just to fill in the rest of ya'll on how sweet Dawn is, she is letting me come in and work with her at a street fair. It will be the first big gig that I do. I've worked at a really small school and I think the most kids i've painted at an event has been like 15 give or take. And I've only done it voluntarely cuz it gives me experience. I think I've done 4 sporting events and 2class parties. So not much experience at all!! On top of that she and I are the only facepainters in our area that are using the correct products, so she is directly training, helping etc the competition. Now of course I will look like one of her employees and not doing anything stupid like handing out my business cards, I don't even have any yet, ha ha. But that experience is worth bocou(french for alot) to me!! Thank you Dawn for being so fantabulous(MeLisa for amazing, lol)!!!!! YAY again!!!