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Ensure your exhibition display spaces are immersive, engaging and sustainable.
Our team takes your brief from initial design concepts to final install, handling everything in between. Custom, modular or shell - one team designs, project manages and builds, ensuring consistency from start to finish.
Exhibition stands we've designed and built.
Three ways to stand out
The right exhibition stand does more than fill your floor space. It stops the right people, holds them and gives your team the room to do what they came to do. Get it right and the show pays for itself many times over.
There is no single right answer. A custom build gives you a stand designed from scratch around your brand and your goals. A modular system gives you reusable components that reconfigure across shows and save you money over a show season. A shell scheme upgrade turns the organiser's basic package into something worth walking up to. We help you pick the route that fits your show, your budget and your ambition.
Whichever you choose, the same team creates the brief, designs the concept and builds the stand, so nothing gets lost between a designer's idea and what actually turns up on the show floor.
Tried and Tested
We pride ourselves on our creative brief taking.
In collaboration with our clients, we leave no stone unturned, working with you to curate an accurate and effective brief to understand your exhibition stand design and build objectives and scope the project in full.
Our in-house exhibition stand designers then get to work on understanding your brief.
Applying their years of exhibition experience, they start defining methods, researching engagement strategies and consider the sustainability approach to your stand development.
Ideas then become reality.
Concept development, sketch designs and finally 3D renders are presented to you for final sign off of your bespoke exhibition stand with any amends required, ready to move into production and build phase.
What our clients say about us
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
Thank you for your support and for creating such an awesome stand!
Jo Marketing Manager, Neat
Thank you so much for your support with our stand. Matt Engall is also fab!
Lucy Head of Commercial, OpusApeiro
Bespoke Project Management
Every exhibition stand we build comes with a dedicated project manager. Their job is to take the stress out of exhibiting, so you can focus on the show rather than the logistics. They handle the small details, the ones that derail a stand when nobody is watching them, so you never have to.
Your project manager learns your brand inside out and relays it to the design and build teams. Think of them as an extension of your own team, not an outside contact you have to chase. From handover to install, they make sure delivery goes without a hitch.
The Creation Way
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
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
Bringing your brand to life with full 3D design concepts. Ensuring a wow-factor stand design - every sightline, material and moment earns its place
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
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
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
Our Exhibition Team
500+
Exhibitions Completed
16
Industry Experts
80+
Venues Covered Worldwide
As a hugely experienced company, we pride ourselves on our exceptional attention to detail; both in our on-going pursuit in the ethical provision of resources, to our absolute dedication in crafting the most engaging live experiences for our clients. We're the perfect mix of energy and experience, always adapting to the ever-changing bespoke exhibition stand landscape to build connection-driven spaces. Young enough to think freely, but old enough to know best.
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 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.
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.
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.
A shell scheme stand uses the venue's pre-built booth frame, while a custom exhibition stand is designed and built from scratch to achieve more ambitious designs. Shell scheme delivers a professional, on-brand presence at a fraction of the cost and without the lead time of full custom build, which makes it ideal for first-time exhibitors or tighter budgets.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Exhibition stand designers UK companies like Creation are briefed on brand guidelines from day one if clients have them. However, not all exhibition stand design companies are equal, it is about gaining an in depth understanding to fully maximise your brand. We start with a discovery session to understand your requirements in depth and how to work within your brand standards and push the exhibition stand design to its potential.
Our exhibition stand contractors team cover all major UK venues including ExCeL, NEC, Olympia and Manchester Central, plus many more European shows. Whether it starts at our in-house facilities in the UK, or with one of our specialist partners, our reach has no borders. We have built exhibition stands in the US, Canada, Germany, UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UAE, Singapore, Australia to name but a few. Our main London office is where the dreams come together and then managed globally from there.
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.
Either. Creation can provide and assist with your artwork, taking it from brief through design to final sign-off, or handle specialist print production from files you supply. You get as much or as little design support as the project needs whether it be an exhibition booth, brand activation or stand alone graphic printing
