Wood Brain at the Unique Spring Show 2013

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Our first ever Unique LA show was a huge success. We had such an amazing weekend.

Our booth was a collaboration between, Dawn Sinacori of Seadrift Soul, Meredith Harbuck of Meriebabie handbags and myself Lindsay Zuelich of Wood Brain. The three of us shared a 10'x20' booth space and used all the footage to our advantage. We had many creative meetings between the three of us, gathering our concepts and designs for our booth space. Meredith did a mock up of what the three of us envisioned for our space for the Spring 2013 show in Sketch-Up. (pictured below)

Concept sketch for our booth 

Sketch-up model by Meredith Harbuck

The Unique LA Spring show is held every year on Mother's Day weekend in the California Mart's penthouse suite on the 13th floor. It was our first time participating in a Unique show. We wanted to be a fully prepared for anything we would run into during our set-up at the California Mart. 

We were one of the first to arrive on set-up day Friday May 10th the day before the show. We made many trips using the freight elevator and learned some tips from the veterans that had done these shows many of times. After everything was off loaded we went to work on constructing our booth. We detoured a little from our original design model but in the end we were happy with our booth layout. check out the pictures below for a little recap of set-up and the show.

Friday morning our booth bare, before set-up

Dawn Sinacori doing a little paint touch up after the wall installation 

Our Amazing helpers for the weekend displaying our signs

Booth Space 152 in the Eco-Friendly section

Booth 152

Seadrift Soul, Meriebabie and Wood Brain

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(left to right)

Dawn Sinacori of Seadrift Soul, 

(myself) Lindsay Zuelich of Wood Brain,

Meredith Harbuck of Meriebabie handbags 

Now that all the fun is over for the Unique LA Spring show, its time for me to gear up for the Unique CAMP June 6-9. I'll be headed to a outdoors business conference for 4 days. I'll be sure to write a blog about all my adventure when I get back. In the mean time you can check out more about the Unique CAMP on this link.

Wood Brain will be at Unique LA Spring show and CAMP Unique

Unique LA is the largest independent design show in the country, attendees get the rare chance to meet and shop directly from over 350 hand-selected designers and artists. The exciting two-day shopping event makes it easy to buy local and shop handmade. The products at the show are proudly made right here in the USA. 

Applications opened for the Spring 2013 show on Febuary 18th and closed on March 31. I applied for a (10'x20') shared booth along with two other amazingly talented people, Meredith Harbuck from meriebabie handbags and Dawn Sinacori from seadrift soul. The three of us currently have a 10'x30' booth down at Crafted in San Pedro. We've been looking forward to applying for Unique for quite some time now and applied for the show the day applications came out. We eagerly awaited April 1st when they sent out notifications of acceptances. Exciting news came in the form of an email that day, notified us that we had been accepted into the Spring 2013 Unique LA Show...

Dawn Sinacori .  Lindsay Zuelich .  Meredith Harbuck

The 2013 UNIQUE LA Schedule
The Spring Show will arrive at California Market Center May 11+12

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Cost: $10 at the door, or buy online to reserve your free tote bag Kids 12 and under are free. 

At each show 10% of all ticket sales go to a partnering non-profit, we’re proud to be working with the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC) for the Spring Show.

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 Admission includes:

• An exclusive UNIQUE LA tote bag, each one featuring a different artist’s work. Our last bag featured an illustration by Brian Rea who recently collaborated with Marni and illustrates the New York Times “Modern Love” column every week in the Sunday Styles section)! *for the first 5000 people through each day

• Unlimited re-entry for both days

• Our UNIQUE directory & mini-magazine!

• Free cocktails from our friends at Art in the Age, plus free drinks from IZZE, Honest Tea, GT’s Kombucha and more!

• Free DIY workshops + crafts from author Marisa Lynch all weekend long!

• Free photo booth portraits and a print at the Oh Snap Studios Photo Booth

• Our curated cafe featuring LA’s best restaurants and trucks, so you can enjoy lunch or dinner, snacks, coffee or a sweet treat

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OUR MISSION IS TO HELP ENTREPRENEURS SUCCEED

Our formula is simple; gather a network of like-minded doers, place them in the environment of a summer camp and provide a curated curriculum that allows them to rediscover the youthful idea that “anything is possible.”

I was very excited to hear about Uniques newest project CAMP Unique, a new style of business retreat, geared towards creative small businesses. I was also stoked to find out that CAMP will be held in Big Bear at the YMCA's Camp Whittle, the same place I was a camp councilor for many years. 

I'm looking forward to attending CAMP  in June.

June 6 – 9, 2013.  All Camper’s board a private bus that departs from Los Angeles the morning of Thursday June 6, and return to Los Angeles in the afternoon, Sunday June 9th. 

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