Industry

Events and exhibits — graphics engineered to travel

Exhibit graphics live a hard life. They pack, ship, get assembled by strangers in a four-hour window, come down overnight and do it again in another city. Everything we build for this market is designed around that cycle rather than around a single beautiful install.

  • Seamless fabric backwalls and stage backdrops to 16 ft
  • Numbered components packed in assembly order
  • Tool-free SEG graphic installation
  • Hanging signs in ring, square and triangle formats
  • FR-treated fabrics for venue requirements
  • Frame drawings retained for spares and refreshes

Designed for the install window

Show floors do not negotiate. You get a load-in slot, a labour rate that punishes delay, and a hall full of other crews doing the same thing. So the engineering priorities invert — assembly speed and idiot-proofing beat elegance every time. We number every component, use push-lock and captive connections so nothing loose gets dropped through a floor grate, pack in assembly order rather than by part type, and put the instructions in the first case opened. Fabric graphics install by hand with no tools, which removes the single slowest step in most booth builds.

Seamless backwalls and stage backdrops

Standard fabric printers cap out around 3.2 m, which puts a seam through the middle of most backwalls and nearly every stage backdrop. Our five-metre line runs those seamlessly to sixteen feet — no stitch line catching a spotlight, no colour step across the join, no panels to align under time pressure. For theatre, film and conference stages that matters more than anywhere else, because the graphic is lit hard from an angle and every imperfection reads. Venues typically ask for flame documentation, and we produce on FR-treated stock accordingly.

Booth properties, hanging signs and repeat tours

Beyond the backwall we build the whole property — side wings, headers, counters, podiums, product plinths, freestanding towers and ring or square hanging signs. Touring programs get extra attention on component durability and on spares, because a cracked connector in Calgary should not compromise the Vancouver show. We keep frame drawings and graphic files on record so replacement parts and refreshed panels match the original build without re-measuring anything. Rigging drawings and hanging weights get filed with the property too, since most venues ask for them again at every stop.

Examples

Selected work

  • A row of large Care Bears character cardboard cutout standees lined up inside a warehouse fabrication facility.
    Feature Builds Care Bears character cardboard cutout standees in fabrication Large format print
  • A large-format banner featuring Markham and Brannn branding is being printed on an industrial wide-format printer inside a print shop.
    Banners Markham and Brannn banner rolling off wide-format printer Large format print
  • A corner trade show booth for Shopify Apps and DotDev features blue illuminated light box signage and pegboard display walls.
    Lightboxes Shopify Apps and DotDev corner booth with blue lightboxes Large format print
  • Shopify Selling and Online product booths display bold red illuminated signage and collage-style graphic walls in an event hall.
    Lightboxes Shopify Selling and Online booths with red illuminated signage Large format print
  • A DotDev2026 conference stage features wooden backdrop panels with circular cutouts, a black podium, and display screens on either side.
    Structures DotDev2026 stage with circle-cutout wooden backdrop panels Large format print
  • A bright conference session room for DotDev2026 is set with wooden folding chairs, a stage, and geometric branded backdrop panels.
    Feature Builds DotDev2026 session room with geometric branded backdrop Large format print

Brands we produce for

FAQ

Common questions

How far in advance should I order trade show graphics?

Earlier than you think, and the constraint is rarely printing. Custom hardware needs drawing approval before fabrication, venues have deadlines for hanging sign and rigging submissions, and advance warehouse cut-off dates for the show are often weeks before the doors open. Working backwards from the advance warehouse date rather than the show date is the right approach. Bring us in during booth design and the schedule takes care of itself.

Do event venues require fire-rated graphics?

Most convention centres, theatres and public venues do require flame resistance for hanging fabrics and drapes, and many ask for documentation before load-in. Our display fabrics carry a flame-retardant treatment for that reason. Requirements vary by venue and by jurisdiction, so check your exhibitor manual early and tell us what documentation you need — chasing it during load-in week is not a good position to be in.

Can you produce graphics for a booth someone else designed?

Regularly. Exhibit houses and agencies send us designs and we produce the graphics, the hardware, or both. What we need is the frame specification or physical samples so silicone edge sizing and finished dimensions are exact — SEG tolerances are unforgiving across suppliers. If you only have renderings, we can reverse-engineer buildable specs and return drawings for approval before anything is cut.

Next step

Send your booth layout or show manual and we will scope the production package.

Send drawings, a store list or a rough idea. We will come back with substrate options, hardware and a quote.

Request a quote→ 416.493.8888