/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8442130

The button desplays I did this year were really simple and cheap to do, stacked/packed flat. I got some cheapo steel art prints/signs from michaels and covered them with white paper (or you could use magnetic whiteboard panels).... bought a bunch of rare earth magnets in bulk from china off of ebay, and voila. Made a sample of each button design that didn't have a pin in the back, and stuck it to the panel with a magnet. It was a lot less messy than using cork tiles because people are gonna pull on the display no matter what you do, at least this way the button comes right off with no damage. You just gotta periodically look over and make sure no one's shuffled your samples around. No one stole any, either!

Also made little printed logos to stick to the boards so people would immediately recognize what series they were looking at. Seemed to help a lot; had loads of people recognizing kind of otherwise generic looking characters.

The panels hung off our grid racks with clips, and packed flat in our luggage.