The avant-garde movement in art and literature of the early 20th-century that sought to release the creative potential of the sub-conscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images is often termed as surrealism.

In the words of Salvador Dali, Surréalism is said to be the symbolic language of the subconscious; truly a universal language, it doesn’t depend on education, culture or intelligence. 

Surréalism means cleansing your mind of what you have seen and be on the look out of "what has never been."

 

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Topics: Graphic Design, Trade Show Graphics, Trade show booth, Inspiration, Surrealism, Muse, Sarmistha Tarafder, Ideas at work, S Portable Display Booths

 

 

 

Look everywhere and anywhere around you. There is no escaping it.

Once that which was on the periphery has now engulfed us. It has invaded our minds, our lives, our passion and our profession. Every single thing that we care about in our life has been touched by high science, that went through a process of intense purification, only to leave us with an uniquely simplified version of its original form.

 

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Topics: Graphic Design, Brand Marketing, Daniel Pink, Sarmistha Tarafder, Creativity, Technology, Brand, art of smart, Alvin Toffler

 

 

 

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. ~ Gautama Buddha, circa 563 B.C.E

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Topics: Design Inspiration, Design Tips, Bay Area Trade show display, Graphic Design, Trade Show Exhibits, Trade Show Graphics, Pop up displays, Exhibit Design, Trade show booth, Silicon valley trade show booth design, Architecture, Trade show convention, Trade Show Exhibit, Product Design, Principles of Design, Ratios, Proportions, Sarmistha Tarafder, Elegant design

Updated 2022

DON'T JUST THROW COUPLE OF FANCY CHAIRS AND A TABLE AND BE DONE WITH IT. DESIGN YOUR SPACE FOR CONVERSATION THAT SPARKS BRAND THINKING.

 

 

 

THIS IS A BAD TIME TO BE BORING

Setting aside the quickening of time factor, (another expression for another day), the simple truth is, — your clients and your prospects does not feel encouraged to interact with you because, you do not inspire them. More often than not, you have been dishing out half-baked product updates at trade shows, using the same kiosks and booth designs that does not infuse them with any new thoughts, or, nudge them to participate in your presentation, because, you have messaged it with the SOLE FOCUS ON YOUR PRODUCT.

 

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Topics: Design Inspiration, Design Tips, Bay Area Trade show display, Graphic Design, Trade Show Exhibits, Trade Show Graphics, Retractable Banner Stands, Pop up displays, Exhibit Design, Tradeshow booth design, Trade show booth, Exhibit Rental, Hanging Display Banners, Booth Flooring, Trade show lounge, Trade show convention, Portable Display Booths, Sarmistha Tarafder, Lounge settings, Island Exhibits

 

... AND JUGGLING THE MIND

With search engines, media portals and social networking sites cluttered with dozens of links and banners ads and magazines scattered with inserts and advertorials, how do we break through the clutter to grab the attention of consumers? Increasingly, the long lost science of tracking eye movements is coming back in vogue as markets figure out how to make eye contact with their target customers.

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Topics: Design Inspiration, Design Tips, Graphic Design, Trade Show Graphics, Exhibit Design, Tradeshow booth design, 2011 Tradeshow Trends, Trade show convention, Trade Show Exhibit, Golden Proportion, Custom Modular Tradeshow exhibit, Eye contact, E pattern, F pattern, Road to Success, Sarmistha Tarafder

 

seduction IS THE ONLY ART THAT STOOD THE TEST OF TIME

LET's face IT — WE ALL LOVE TO BE SEDUCED

Some of us are implicit about it and others are a tad bit explicit about it. We all long for this sense of restlessness that drives us to do deeds that are socially not quite the norm and culturally not quite acceptable. Here is what the master seducer have to say about seduction.

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Topics: Design Inspiration, Design Tips, Graphic Design, Pop up displays, Creative Exhibition Booth Design, Art and Design, Art of Business, Exhibition Booth Design, Booth Design trends 2011, Portable Display Booths, Leonardo da vinci, Mathew May, Sfumto, Appli iphone, Sarmistha Tarafder, Trade Show Marketing

LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF THE FUTURE.
Love is . . . The fury of the storm, The calm in the rainbow.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF PASSION.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF REALITY.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF UNITY.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SUCCESS. ― Susan Polis Schutz

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Topics: Graphic Design, Art and nature Inspiration, Art of Business, Trade Fair Design, Art of Presentation, Brand Exhibiting, Art of Marketing, Booth Design Inspiration, Architectural Display Signs, trade show booths, Art and Science of Lead Generation, Exhibition Booth Design, geometric design, Color inspiration, Art of Thinnking, Trade show Booth ideas, Trade Show Booth Design, Trends in Booth Design, Sarmistha Tarafder, Trade Show Marketing, Art of Creation, trade show exhibiting, Trade Show Displays, Brand, Art of Ancient Wisdom, Characteristics of Famous Brands, trade show exhibit graphics

 

 

A FRESH NEW DAY.

FRESH new start, fresh beginningS — new questions, new delights and a new path to new self-discovery.

FRESH NEW LEARNINGS. YOU WOULD HOPE.

However, if #CES2017 was any guide, we have seen nothing that has shattered the perception of our reality or our sense of time and space. It was more of the same on their evolutionary path.

Other than, full-on "holographic" heads-up display from BMW, and some creative concept cars from Chrysler, Honda, Bosch and Toyota, the phones, cameras, new virtual reality and augmented/mixed reality products and drones clearly did not capture the hearts and minds of the attendees. At best, it was a warm up of what is yet to come.

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Topics: Graphic Design, trade show technology, Sarmistha Tarafder, 2017 Marketing Trends

 

 

 

Updated October 2016

Initially, I started this as one article. But, shortly, I realized the magnitude of the subject line. It wants to be a TRILOG - (not a word from the Webster dictionary, of course.) I am breaking it up in 3 parts and this is the first part of the newly coined word Trilog. Let me know what your feelings are about this word. I am kind of liking it.

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Topics: Graphic Design, Brand Marketing, Open Booth Design, Trade Show Marketing, Technology, Brand, Branding, Trade Show, Healthcare, Disruption

As Seth Godin rightfully puts it, "The cost of inventing, prototyping, manufacturing and especially advertising a new thing, concept, service or organization is a tiny fraction of what it used to be. In some industries, you can do it for 1% of what it used to cost."

 

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Topics: Graphic Design, Brand Marketing, Trade Fair Design, Brand Perception, Sarmistha Tarafder, Marketing, Return on Attention, John Hagel