Arts On Foot, produced by Diverse Markets Management Group took place this past week (Sept. 8-11). I was there for all four days and had a wonderful time. The event was very well-organized, the staff was great and our patrons couldn’t have been more wonderful! We met some really great people, heard great music, ate some great food and enjoyed perfect weather for the run of the show.
Our booth design has been evolving over the last few years, here is an old booth shot (from an indoor show):
From 2007 Frosty's Fair
The silhouette is my partner in jewelry. Last year, we decided to move to shelving for the most part and this is what we slapped together:
From 2009 Downtown DC Holiday Market
Better right? Cleaner, easier to see, easier to navigate, but very busy, and the bamboo blinds as a backdrop didn’t work as well as we had envisioned.
For Arts On Foot we had a little more time to plan and decide how we wanted to present ourselves. We had to change some things a little bit but overall how we planned it was how it looked:
From 2009 Downtown DC Holiday Market
The green is really fresh looking and the dark espresso brown is a nice accent and combination with it. Our silver pops nicely against both colors, which is nice. It’s really hard to find a color that works for silver jewelry. We got rid of the large table in favor for a much smaller one just big enough for our mirror, business cards, mailing list book, and my humongous laptop, which we use to process credit card sales. We incorporated two “pedestals” fashioned from stools with trays velcroed to the tops for our pendants. Overall, the booth was much cleaner and easier on the eyes, and there was little of the dreaded “butt brush issue”.