An exhibition design and build agency handles every stage of the stand, from initial brief through concept design, fabrication, install and dismantle. Creation handles and manages all of it in-house for a stress free experience for our clients.
Exhibition stands and design specialists
Exhibition Stands for the Automotive Industry
We are the automative exhibition stands agency behind Tesla, Lotus, Zenvo and more...
Automotive Stand Designers and Builders
Specialist Automotive Stand Builders
Designing an exhibition stand in the car industry that resonates with UK audiences requires careful consideration of technical experience, industry know how, aesthetic preferences and the event’s objectives. It’s about translating your automative brand’s identity into a physical space that tells a compelling story.
Experience
Our Expertise Counts
Automotive stands are a different discipline altogether, and that's where our experience matters.
Every detail has to live up to the car at its centre, from the lighting that shows off a paint finish to the floor that takes the weight of a twotonne vehicle without a flex or a scuff. We plan vehicle access and move in sequences, engineer platforms and turntables and work within strict manufacturer guidelines, all while keeping the space open for visitors, hospitality and the conversations that sell cars.
Outdoor events like Goodwood bring their own challenges: uneven ground, unpredictable British weather, tight build windows and crowds of enthusiasts who notice everything. Whether it's a headline reveal, a dealer-facing trade show or a festival presence that needs to survive a weekend of rain and footfall, we manage the whole process from first design concept to final breakdown, so the brand looks as good on day four as it did when the covers came off.
Our services
Testimonials
What our clients say about us
Thank you so much for your support with our stand. Matt Engall is also fab!
Lucy Head of Commercial, OpusApeiro
Thank you for your support and for creating such an awesome stand!
Jo Marketing Manager, Neat
A big thank you for everything Creation did... it went so well and once again it was a pleasure to work with Creation. The stand looked brilliant!
Eliza Marketing Director, Lightfoot
Our process
The Creation Way
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Discovery
A creative session to craft a design brief together by digging into your brand, your objectives, and what winning looks like. Our design team will become fluent in your business and ready to design an show-stopping exhibition stand
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Strategy
Your project needs a plan, not just a look. We match your objectives to maximise delegate engagement, ensuring visitor flow, & staff positioning to maximise ROI. Mapping a sustainable approach with the design strategy, all before a sketch goes on paper
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Creative
Bringing your brand to life with full 3D design concepts. Ensuring a wow-factor stand design - every sightline, material and moment earns its place
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Finalise
Present, refine, sign-off. Working with you to refine the design for until it is perfect. Materials, lighting, graphics, and tech integration locked in before production starts
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Delivery
Production kicks off. Design and build handled end to end - manufacture, logistics, venue liaison, on-site install. We take all the stress out of exhibiting, managing the entire process from start to finish
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Insights
After the show, we debrief. Whether to store and reuse the stand for next year. What worked the best, what to experiment with in the future. Setting the direction for the next one - whether that's a new concept, reinstalling the same, or combining the previous stand with new elements
Who we are
The exhibition design and build agency that brands return to
500+
Exhibition stands designed and built
16
Industry Experts
1
Team
Creation Exhibitions are UK exhibition stand contractors and exhibition stand designers with our own in-house build facilities. We handle exhibition design and build end to end, custom exhibition stands, modular systems and shell scheme, for UK and European and global businesses.
Creation takes care of the entire project start to finish. From our exhibition specialist designers and project managers. To our stand builders and fabricators. The same team handle everything from the initial chat to the final handover.
That's why brands come back show after show. A seamless stress-free journey every time.
FAQs
A brand activation is a live, interactive experience designed to connect a brand with its audience and prompt them to take action. Activations are built around participation and include formats such as pop-ups, product launches, roadshows, retail installations and experiential events. The aim is a memorable, often shareable moment that builds awareness and turns interest into memorable moments.
An exhibition stand is your branded space on a trade show floor, where visitors come to you whether you have a bespoke exhibition stand, a custom exhibition, a modular exhibition stand or any other term you may use when exhibiting. A brand activation is a live experience that can happen almost anywhere: a retail space, a festival, a city-centre pop-up or a touring roadshow. Exhibition stands maximise presence at a specific show, while activations take the brand experience directly to your audience wherever they are.
Brand activations create face-to-face engagement that passive advertising cannot. Through engaging experience, they build awareness, generate leads and produce content people share, which extends reach well beyond the event itself. Because the experience is interactive, it tends to shift audiences from simply aware of a brand to actively engaged with it, which is why activations are one of the fastest-growing channels in experiential marketing, often working alongside your other marketing activity.
Timelines vary with the format and the number of locations, with simple retail pop-ups turning around faster than multi-stop touring programmes that may include brand launches, exhibition stand design, interactivity throughout a wider marketing campaign. As ever, the more time you have, the more consideration you can give, the more design exploration you can do and the less stress you have compared to with a condensed schedule.
First off, it is important to note that often you won't know. We design you a great exhibition stand that fits your budget and your needs. The materials behind the scenes are our expertise, you do not need to choose.
Custom exhibition stands are designed and built from scratch where the sky is the limit, using various materials to achieve more ambitious designs using such materials as timber, glass, plastics, metal, GRP etc.
Modular exhibition stands use reusable components that reconfigure for different venues and sizes. Modular stand booths are designed and built with sustainability at their core whilst ensuring they still look just as good as bespoke exhibition stands, just slightly more limited on what can structurally be achieved.
Whilst there are so many variables to consider, when we opt to use custom exhibition stand build methods, they range from £15,000 to £500,000+ depending on size and complexity. These are typically more expensive than the modular approach we use can which can achieve a more cost effective exhibition stand starting from £10,000 compared to shell scheme stands from £5,000. We take time to listen to your brief, and if you need a complex exhibition stand because of specific requirements, we will create something custom, whilst being conscious of your budget. Or at the other of the scale, you may want a custom double-deck exhibition stand which can vary between £150,000 all the way up to £500,000 or more for something off the scale!
Exhibition stand design and build involves two key parts; the exhibition stand design, and the exhibition stand build. The time in between that is where exhibition stand project management takes place.
We always advise clients to start the process as far in advance as possible ensuring we can dive properly into your brand and your vision, create an outstanding exhibition stand design and allow the time to make any amendments that you need. We take care of all the venue and organiser deadlines, and the sooner we begin, the more efficient we can be.
Anything less than 8 weeks, the timeline has to be more compact. However we have built over 600sqm of exhibition stands at COP26 with just over 3 weeks’ notice! (please don’t aim for 3 week timelines!) Notwithstanding, we are experts in making big dreams come true with tight deadlines if you are last minute.
A summary guideline of realistic timings:
Modular Exhibition Stands: 1-3 months
Custom Exhibition Stands: 2-6 months
Complex Double-deck exhibition stands: 4-12 months.
Double-decker exhibition stands look amazing and stand you out from the crowd literally and metaphorically. We own our own double deck structure so that we can design and build double deck exhibition stands cost effectively and sustainably.
Interactive technology turns a passive visitor into an active participant and creates the shareable moments that justify an activation budget. Options include touchscreens and configurators, AR and VR, motion-reactive walls, RFID or QR-triggered content and live social or content capture.
Yes. We are among the exhibition companies UK that marketers use for European shows. We have delivered stands in Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and throughout the world. Our UK stand build team can collaborate with overseas partners and labour to ensure maximum cost efficiency and increase sustainability of our exhibition stand carbon footprint.