Pick a size, set your show city, narrow 1,800+ priced designs, then make one yours and revise it until it is exactly right. An interactive walk through every step of the Pure Exhibits catalog, from the first filter to the approved booth.
Leadership has stopped accepting badge scans as proof a show worked. Most booths, though, are still designed for traffic. How layout, zone sizing and staff placement decide who you actually meet, how the booth itself captures the context follow-up needs, and where a pipeline-ready booth is worth paying more for.
Next year’s exhibit budget is being built while materials, services and travel all cost more and international audiences thin out. Where tariffs actually land in an exhibit program, which commitments to lock before year-end, how to re-score the show portfolio, and how to present the number to finance.
Senior buyers are spending less of the show on the floor and more of it in suites, dinners and side rooms. The exhibitors getting value treat the booth and the suite as one program: the floor finds and qualifies, the suite hosts and closes. Here is how to design, staff and budget them together.
“We’re paying for this space, we should fill it” is the most expensive sentence in exhibit design. The four invoices behind every square foot of structure, the walkthrough test for a plan that is too dense, what to cut first, and how to win the argument with your marketing director.
At Design & Construction Week the buyer decides in a room they can stand in. How to design a KBIS or IBS booth as a working kitchen, bath or build vignette — plumbing, power, sightlines, the two-show traffic pattern — and the number each layout is judged on.
At The International Surface Event the product is a floor, a slab or a wall, and the booth’s only job is to make it look and feel the way it will in a finished room. Five layouts by exhibitor type, with lighting, sample handling and the number each is judged on.
World of Concrete is judged on what a contractor sees a machine or a material do. How to lay out a booth for live demonstration — sightlines, clearances, dust, the indoor and outdoor split — and the number each layout is judged on.
SHOT Show is a buying show first and a launch show second. How to lay out a booth for dealer and distributor appointments, product-handling stations and a two-venue floor, with the number each layout is judged on.
A launch booth, a partner-meeting booth and a lead-volume booth are three different buildings that share a footprint. How to pick the one number your CES program is judged on and let it decide the layout, graphics and staffing.
