Pop-up displays

Pop-up displays: an image wall in seconds

Pop-up displays are folding image walls that all but set themselves up: you take the panel out of the bag, let it unfold and it forms a curved or straight wall by itself. A sprung internal structure pushes the whole thing into shape and magnets hold it closed. Taking it down takes as long as putting it up, and everything then fits back into a single carry bag.

We supply these displays to companies, schools, municipalities, sports clubs and organisations that regularly communicate away from base: job fairs, open days, information markets, recruitment campaigns. Anyone who often travels alone and still wants a full backdrop almost always ends up with this system.

What you use them for

• Job fairs and education fairs: a full backdrop that one person can put up.
• Information markets and open days: dress a zone quickly and clear it away again.
• Touring presentations: the same wall standing somewhere different every week.
• Photo walls at smaller events and press moments.

Versions

Curved walls

The most widely used shape. The slight curve makes the wall more stable and encloses your zone.

Straight walls

Flatter in the image, useful when the wall stands against an existing background or when several panels form one long surface side by side.

Double-sided versions

Graphics on both sides, for places where visitors walk all around.

Extendable set-ups

Several panels that you couple magnetically into a wider wall. That way your set-up grows with the size of your stand.

Material and technique

The graphic sits on a fabric skin or on magnetically fixed image panels around a spring-steel frame. Fabric is our preference: it does not reflect under spotlights, it recovers from creasing and it tolerates folding without permanent lines. On some versions the carry bag doubles as a table or plinth.

Watch the image continuity. Systems with separate magnetic panels create narrow overlaps, so never place text or a logo exactly on a panel edge. With a continuous fabric skin that issue does not arise, which is the main advantage of that version.

Exhibition halls and public buildings almost always require a fire classification for the fabric. We supply material that meets the usual requirements and provide the certificate; do check what the organiser specifically imposes.

In practice

• Let the panel do its own work as it opens. Forcing it damages the spring structure.
• Packing it away takes practice: fold along the marked lines. Improvise and it will not go back in the bag.
• Keep the bottom zone of the graphic free of critical information, because there is usually a table or a member of staff in front of it.
• Common mistake: putting detailed text or a full product list on the wall. Nobody reads that at a fair. One message and a strong image achieve more.

For a permanent set-up, a large stand configuration or an illuminated wall this system is not the best choice. You are better served by a modular click-frame wall system, which stands more firmly and offers more options. The strength of the pop-up lies in speed and portability.

What determines the price?

• The dimensions of the wall and the number of panels.
• The shape: straight, curved or a coupled set-up.
• Single-sided or double-sided printing.
• The type of skin: continuous fabric or separate magnetic panels.
• The fire classification required and the accompanying certificate.
• Extra graphic sets for later campaigns on the same structure.
• The carry bag or transport case and any accessories such as spotlights or a table top.

Ready to hit the road?

Give us the width you want, the intended use and the number of events per year, and we will propose the right model with a quotation. No design yet? We will make one, sized to the reading distance on an exhibition floor.