Gift Focus - Sep/Oct 2019 (Issue 115)

85 AUTUMN FAIR PREVIEW Exhibitor profiles ALLJOY DESIGN Stand: 6A20 alljoydesign.com Alljoy Design is looking forward to exhibiting its new Message in a Bottle pop-up Christmas cards at Autumn Fair. There are 30 designs to choose from. These three- dimensional cards are hand-made, with a patent pending process. The cards also come in a variety of designs – not just Christmas! They are left blank on the inside for your own message. The new designs have a six-layered, laser- and die-cut paper technique. They are packaged to display flat-packed, with a handy pop-up image and information sheet on the front of the packaging. SABIVO DESIGN Stand: 6B35 sabivo.co.uk SABIVO Design is returning to Autumn Fair and launching a brand-new everyday range at the show, Clusters. The range has more than 60 designs and spans seasonal and everyday captions, including milestone ages and family relations. The contemporary minimalistic range is hand-drawn and designed by the publisher’s founder, Sabina. It features quirky line drawings of popular celebratory icons and on-trend hand-lettering. The designs are hand-illustrated and hand-finished with mini cup flower jewels and hand-glittered with gold glitter. The publisher proudly designs and crafts the cards here, in the UK. All cards are competitively priced, blank inside, barcoded and 145 mm square. They are printed on FSC-certified board, wrapped in luxury gold envelopes and recyclable cello bags. The new range is available to order from now via the publisher’s agents and the trade-only website. It will be on show at Autumn Fair alongside SABIVO Design’s other bestselling ranges, such as Christmas 2019, the ever-popular Bijoux, soft and feminine range Indigo and more. As a show offer, the exhibitor offers complementary carriage with all orders placed at the show. BIG POTATO GAMES Stand:6H56 bigpotato.com The Big Potato gang will be making their way to Autumn Fair armed with its brightly coloured stand and a bundle of brand new party games. Included in this year’s lineup is licensed movie party game Blockbuster, licensed family trivia game Disney Colourbrain and fast and frantic party game 20 Second Showdown. You read that correctly: Blockbuster, the video rental store, is back in the form of a party game. Two teams play head-to-head with one aim in mind: be the first to collect a movie from all eight genres. The game includes a mixture of challenges, such as a beat-the-buzzer round, movie quotes and a little bit of charades so that you can reenact iconic scenes from your favourite movies. The movie party game comes with a Blockbuster carpark as the board and a VHS case as the box. Disney Colourbrain is a Disney-themed quiz with two colourful twists. The first is that you’re given you all the answers before you start. The second is that they’re all colours! Each player has 11 Colour Cards in their hand. To answer one of the crafty Disney questions, they decide which ones to play, hope the others slip up and then live happily ever after. 20 Second Showdown is a roller-coaster of a family game, with two teams racing to complete a series of ridiculous challenges. Pick a player to start in the hot seat and read out a Challenge Card, and then flip the massive timer and try to complete whatever crazy task the game throws at you. There are 400 challenges in the game – from saying “hello” in three different foreign languages to swapping shoes with a team member. The first team to run out of time loses and must reset the timer, while the winners parade around the room like the champions that they are. Visit Big Potato Games at stand 6H56 at Autumn Fair, or get in touch with Emily Polglase at emily@bigpotato.co.uk to book an appointment. 