exhibitstudios.com: Behind every successful exhibit is more than a great design. The custom exhibit fabrication process is where precise craftsmanship, structural engineering, and strategic production planning transform concepts into show-ready environments.
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I have always been a firm believer in having a plan before jumping into a project, and it is interesting to see how detailed plans can get for something as big as an exhibit can get. Something I often forget to think about is a test fit of everything together, but it is smart, better to find out something is wrong when you have time, and not on the second day of load in when your already behind schedule. Its also telling that actual fabrication is such a small part of this article, most of the time and effort that goes into something like this is the pre planning, in order to avoid as many problems as possible. I wonder what CAD programs a company like this uses to create its finalized designs. Its also fun to see how similar something like an exhibit is to what we are doing on a show.
I really liked how this company laid out every step of their process from planning to installation, and how it went into detail about certain steps that people don't necessarily think about when creating a set. The idea that really stuck with me was the step of media integration with the set. Because media is becoming much more relevant and used more often within the industry, it is important that the scenic designer and technical team think about how these two aspects will work together and how the scenic design will help the media and vice versa. In the production of Company, I think they did a good job at letting the set aid the media, and I think that they work well together for the media being used within the production. I also think that this company just does a nice job overall, really showing the execution of each step. It shows that it takes a lot more work than it seems to build a set, especially one for commercial or regional theatre.
I think it’s really cool this article goes over each step through the process of creating these exhibits for conferences. I feel like you can learn a lot from the creation processes of different types of events. Planning these exhibits seem to have to be well thought out and I love how they take that a step further and set it up for review before taking it to the conference. I mean it makes sense that they do to make sure everything they have designed and built works in the way it was intended to. Also, I liked how they mentioned it helped the installation crew have hands-on experience with setting up in order for them to move faster on move in day, it’s something I wouldn’t have thought of unless the article said it. I think what also stuck out to me was if they found issues, they mentioned they would fix it at the venue rather than staying up late to do so.
I have definitely thought about trade show boots before, but it is interesting to see this insight into the design process. This process seems very similar to that of a concert tour or even some forms of theatrical production, where the client is coming in with very broad ideas of what they want the thing to look like, but the company needs to figure out both what the design is actually going to be, the budget for the client, and how to fabricate and ship the final object. I think that a lot of the challenges and interesting problem-solving that we have in the theater world would come up here, albeit with a different set of constraints and requirements. Looking at the portfolio from this company, it is interesting to see how many different kinds of exhibits they have made, which makes me think that the really do listen to their clients, rather than just trying to fit their clients into a box.
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