Big Purple Build
Brand experience agency.
Big Purple Build designs and fabricates scenic, sets and brand environments for the live events that don’t get a second take.
— Set / Scenic
The set and scenic studio that makes the thing.
Build is the set and scenic studio inside Big Purple Group. We design and fabricate brand environments, exhibition stands, custom stages, experiential installations and the scenic that makes a live event feel like a brand.
The studio is new — set up to handle work that had been growing inside our flagship Productions studio for years — and the team is small. The work isn’t.
— What we make
Four things, all built in the workshop.
Brand environments
Spaces designed to make an audience walk into a brand rather than watch it from a seat. Activation rooms, immersive installations, brand-temporary environments, popup interiors. The brief is usually shaped by a creative agency or in-house brand team; we design and build the physical layer.
Exhibition stands
Custom-fabricated exhibition stands for trade shows, sector events and brand presence at industry conferences. Designed to ship, install and strike cleanly across multiple venues — and to look like the brand, not like a stand.
Custom stages and event sets
Built around the run-of-show, not specced from a catalogue. Branded LED frames, fabricated podiums, set pieces that carry product and presenter, transformations between sessions. Built in our workshop, installed on site by our crew.
Scenic for film and TV
Set construction and scenic fabrication for filmed work — brand films, music video, broadcast inserts. Often delivered alongside our sister studio Big Purple Capture, where the set and the camera are designed against each other from week one.
— Recent builds
Selected builds.
Brand
Barbour AW21 — Press day set
A press-day set for Barbour’s AW21 collection — branded scenic, set treatment, AV-integrated stage.
Awards
NEPIC Awards — Stage set with branded LED frame
Custom stage set with branded LED frame, recurring booking across multiple awards seasons.
Installation
Samuel Phillips Centenary — Riverside projection install
Centenary projection-mapping installation on a riverside building. One night, no second take.
Brand
Standalone brand activation work
Centenary projection-mapping installation on a riverside building. One night, no second take.
— Process
How a build runs.
From the brief on the desk to the strike on the loading bay — the same design lead the whole way through.
Brief
The brand brief, the venue, the spec, the budget shape. A design lead picks it up and comes back with the questions worth asking before drawing starts.
Design
Concept sketches, technical drawings, fabrication spec, material samples.
Fabrication
Built in our workshop. Workshop visits are welcomed — most clients want to see the structure before it ships.
Install and strike
Install on site, ahead of show. Strike to the same standard. Load-out as clean as the build.
— The wider studio
Cross-studio.
Build sits inside Big Purple Group. When a brief needs more than the workshop, we coordinate across the sister studios.
Big Purple Productions
When the build needs full AV, stage, and end-to-end production around it.
Visit Productions →Big Purple Capture
When the set is being designed against the camera — brand films, broadcast inserts.
Visit Capture →Big Purple Events
When the brief is the event itself — charity, brand, corporate, awards.
Visit Events →— Questions
Frequently asked.
How long has Big Purple Build been running?
Can you deliver builds outside the UK?
Can clients visit the workshop during a build?
Will you work with our existing creative agency?
Tell us what the moment is.
Send the brief, the venue, or just the brand. We come back with a design lead’s name and the questions worth asking before drawing starts.