Trade Show Backdrop Design Ideas & Inspiration

If you have a hard time coming up with something suitable and unique that will make your trade show booth stand out from the crowd, we invite you to check out some of these amazing ideas for some inspiration.

But first, here are 3 quick tips for implementing a great backdrop design.

Graphic Real Estate

Understand that some areas in your booth are more visually important than others. A typical example is your back wall. Adding your brand logo, design element, and messages to this graphic “real estate” can go a long way to attract customers to your booth, especially if you have a small to a mid-sized booth. 

Textured Backdrops

Color printing is now inexpensive than it used to be. This provides an excellent opportunity for exhibitors to create and add eye-catching backdrops to their booths. Printed backdrops offer you the flexibility of switching it out for different trade show events so that your booth doesn’t have the same look for all shows. 

A printed backdrop opens up endless possibilities, provided it doesn’t compete with your brand. Use printed backdrops to complement your brand’s message. 

Use High-Res Images

The last thing you want for your backdrop design is a blurred image. Ensure to hire professionals to create high-resolution images that are properly formatted before printing. The worse thing than having no backdrop for your booth is to have an overstretched and pixilated image on your back wall.  

5 Trade Show Backdrop Design Ideas

Here are five powerfully attractive backdrop designs that can draw in, wow potential customers, and help your marketing goals.

1. Backlit Displays

If you want to add the “wow” factor to your booth design, consider using a backlit system with high-definition graphics like the Expolight Backlit Display. The backdrop incorporates an entirely new and modern look to your trade show booth and holds people’s attention from far across the show floor. 

Backlit displays allow for a quick change of graphics, each representing something about your brand from logo to message and products. The frames of the display are lightweight, making it easy and simple to assemble. With a backlit display, you can be sure that your booth won’t have only one configuration. Instead, the different sections of the frame can be switched to create many exciting arrangements. 

And the best part? Installing the Expolight backlight display is quick and easy and does not require the use of any tools. This backdrop design is available in a wide range of options, including floor models, countertops, podiums, L-shaped podiums, and a host of curved shaped options.

2. Pop-Up Displays

One of the quickest backdrops to set up is a pop-up display, and it is an excellent replacement for traditional carpeted panel displays. Single or multiple graphics are printed on the fabric of pop-up displays. The fabric panels roll up to magnetically attach to an expandable accordion frame that pops up during setup.

You can look through our selection of pop-ups that all come with a lifetime warranty. There’s a vast range of options you can choose from, including the affordable OneFabric Hook & Loop pop-ups, the original collection of eye-catching 3D Multi-Skin pop-ups, and different sizes of Embrace pop-up displays, among numerous others.

3. Rigid Tube Frames with Tension Fabric Displays

Rigid tube frames use different aluminum tubes that slip into each other and clip into place. Printed tension fabrics with your brand message or logo are slipped over them to create the backdrop. This option offers lots of flexibility as they can be set up in many different configurations. They also don’t require the use of tools, making them easy to assemble and dismantle. 

4. Multi-Quad Modular Stands

A multi-quad modular stand is an ideal choice for businesses in need of a backdrop that offers nearly endless possibilities. Besides the freedom to create just about any backdrop design you want, multi-quad systems easily make your exhibits spectacular. 

Despite their thickness and solid appearance, multi-quads are lightweight, portable, and highly customizable. You can build your own. Choose from a wide variety of options that work well with different displays, including LCD monitor, fabric, graphic, shelf, and wood grain.

5. Roll-Up Banner 

If you prefer a backdrop design without a hardware frame, you might want to take a look at roll-up banners. These are also known as retractable banner stands or pull up banners. The banner is stored inside the base, thanks to the inclusion of a wind-up mechanism at the base. 

Setup is a matter of pulling or rolling up the vinyl or fabric banner from the base and holding it up with the accompanying pole. You can choose a single roll up banner option like the best-selling Blade Lite or a magnetic banner wall like the Rollo Diamond Banner Stand that features magnetic plates in the base and top to easily connect the banners and create a graphic wall.

Why Should You Get a Custom Backdrop Design?

Creating a custom trade show display gives your business lots of advantages. Besides helping you effectively pass your marketing message, a custom backdrop design is an enduring asset that can be used for multiple exhibition events.

With a custom booth, you get to choose a tailor-made layout that is most suitable for showcasing your specific products, designs, and offers. In other words, potential customers that walk into your custom booth will have an experience that is completely unique to your business. We can create a full-on custom design for you, or you can start from any of our existing backdrop designs, and then reconfigure them or modify them as needed. Please call or leave a message if you'd like to speak to a designer.