Last week was a busy one for me. I went down to Birmingham Tuesday and Wednesday to the Spring Fair to look around the exhibition and meet a couple of people. If you have never been to the Spring Fair before (I hadn’t) it’s a large exhibition featuring toys, gifts, kitchenware and cards. You wouldn’t believe the amount of greeting cards I saw. Its obviously a very worthwhile place to go if you are looking to license your own designs both for inspiration as to what is happening in the industry.
I was especially interested in the card exhibition halls to see what sort of designs are being used on children’s cards as this is one of the areas I would like to push my character designs into.
If you are interested in looking round an exhibition like this there are a couple more in the UK this year The Summer Fair in London and The Autumn Fair which is again in Birmingham.
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Hi Tara,
Sounds like just the place for inspiration, Ive been working on wedding cards this week which at first thought was going to be easy LOL but needed a bit of inspiration. Hope you found some Ideas? I will most likely be attending The autumn one thanks for the heads up.
Mali
Hi Mali
This book is worth a look for greeting cards inspiration too
1000 Greetings: Creative Correspondence Designed for All Occasions
Good post.. ive wanted to go to something like this for a while – i often wonder, given the wealth of talent in design and illustration nowadays, how it is that we end up swamped with wishy-washy water colour kittens in the shops on greetings cards!
Hey Thanks Tara! Found a good little preview on google books preview. The wedding cards are finished now but this will help in future.
Mali
Pity they are not in Australia
It has always been a great passion for me to visit those kind of exhibition. It give you a preview of the next era in the related fields.
It is also a chance to ask questions to people in those fields.
Hi Tara,
This was interesting information. I am looking to enter the greeting card market (for children) and found this very useful. I desperatey need a designer and now I know where to look. Thanks again.
Tash
We are doing work for somebody at the exhibition for card production. He said is was great
will most likely be attending The autumn one thanks for the heads up. desperately need a designer and now I know where to look.