Four things, and all four start on a drawing.
Each one is built to a design rather than pulled from a shelf, and each one is sized to the site it has to stand in before it is sized to look good.
Shop-built sets
A stage skin, a branded surround, a riser built to a shape a rental catalog does not stock — built from a drawing rather than assembled from stock staging and drape. Deck height, sightlines, the load-in door and the rigging points shape the design before a finish or a color does.
- Built fromA drawing, not a stock catalog
- Sized toThe site it ships to
Step & repeat backdrops
A step and repeat is a backdrop with one or more marks repeated across a panel, framed and finished to stand flat under show lighting and to travel to more than one event without warping or creasing the way a printed banner can. It is built to whatever width the photo line actually needs, not to a stock panel size.
- Built forA photo line at a launch, a gala or a press moment
- Sized toThe photo line, not a stock panel width
Media walls & dimensional signage
A media wall is a feature wall built for a brand — a flat printed panel, fabricated letterforms, or a video surface built into a structure, depending on what the site can carry and what the brand needs it to do. Dimensional signage — cut and mounted letterforms, wayfinding, a lobby mark — runs through the same shop at a different scale.
- Ranges fromA flat printed panel to a built, lit structure
- Decided byWhat the site can carry, and what the brand needs
Trade show booth builds
An exhibit-hall booth stands inside a footprint the show floor assigns, for the run of the show, on the same schedule as every booth around it. What the hall publishes about rigging, power and labor shapes the design before the graphics do.
- Built toThe footprint the show floor assigns
- Constrained byWhat the hall publishes
Fabrication runs on a schedule of its own.
Lead time on a custom build is measured in weeks, not days, the same as any fabricated or permitted work on this site — and it is made up of steps that do not compress at the end.
- A design and a sign-off
Nothing gets cut until a drawing or a rendering is approved. A revision requested after material is already ordered is the single most common way a build date slips.
- Material and hardware
Lumber, substrate, hardware and any printed graphic each carry their own availability, and a shop cannot build with material it does not have on the shelf or on order.
- The build itself
Cutting, framing, finishing and, where a graphic is involved, printing and mounting it — the part of the schedule that actually looks like fabrication, and the part that gets estimated earliest and understood least.
- Finish and cure time
Paint, laminate and some printed finishes need time to dry or cure before a piece can be packed and trucked, not just time to apply.
- A test-fit before it ships
A custom piece gets built up and checked against its own drawing before it leaves the shop, not fitted for the first time on site the day before the show.
Not everything on a set needs to be built. Some of it does.
Stock staging, drape and rental signage cover most of a space. A shop build earns its lead time where one of these is true.
- The brand is specific
An exact color, a logo cut to shape, a finish that has to match a brand guide — stock inventory is neutral on purpose, and neutral is not what a launch or a booth needs.
- It gets used more than once
A booth built for a season of shows, or a backdrop that travels to more than one event, earns a build that a single-event rental never has to.
- The shape is not a stock shape
A curved wall, an oversized backdrop, a deck built to an exact footprint on a show floor — anything a rental catalog does not carry in the size or shape the job needs.
- It has to survive a specific site
A footprint set by an exhibit hall’s own rules, a step position fixed by a photo line, a load-in door that only takes one width. The site decides the build; a stock piece cannot be told to be a different size.
Four things, and a shop drawing can start.
The same four answers set the design, the material list and the schedule.
- Brand or reference material
Logo files, brand colors, and any rendering or reference image already in hand. A design can start from a description, but a file is faster and more accurate — and a design can come from your team or ours.
- Where it goes, and the footprint
A booth space assigned by a show floor, a step position at a photo line, a wall in a space with its own ceiling height — the site sets the outer limits of the design before anything else does.
- How many events it has to survive
A one-night backdrop and a booth built for a season of shows are not the same build, and the difference changes the material list.
- The date, worked backward
Fabrication and permits run in weeks, not days, so the build date is the one we work back from — not the show date itself.
Where a shop build meets the rest of the production.
A custom build rarely stands alone — it is quoted, scheduled and load-in tested alongside everything else on the same estimate.
Send the brief and the footprint. We will tell you what it takes to build.
Call and you will get someone who can tell you on the phone whether a stock piece covers it or a shop build is worth the lead time. Or email the brand material, the footprint and the date, and we will come back with the design, the material list and the schedule worked backward from your show — no price guessed at before the drawing is approved. Quotes within 24 hours.
- Phone
- (561) 750-4070
- [email protected]
- Shop
- 500 NE 28th Ct, Pompano Beach, FL 33064
- Service area
- South Florida · statewide in Florida