What We Do

What Build does.

Big Purple Build is a set, scenic and structural design studio for live events. We design and fabricate stage sets, scenic environments, brand activations and exhibition stands.

Event briefs often cross categories. A brand activation might come with a fabricated stage and an exhibition stand. A keynote might come with a photo wall and a press environment.

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— Disciplines

Four disciplines, one workshop.

— Capability / 01

Brand activations and immersive sets

Brands made physical. Pop-up retail, launch environments, immersive installations, press-day sets, branded photo spaces. Build works to your creative team’s concept, then makes it buildable inside venue constraints, fabrication timelines and freight. Multi-room activations and tour-style builds that ship clean between venues.

— Capability / 02

Exhibition stands

Custom-built stands for trade shows, sector exhibitions and industry conferences. Designed and fabricated for the specific show, brand and footprint. Build handles design, fabrication, freight, install and strike. For brands exhibiting across multiple shows, we design for repeat use: modular substructures, replaceable graphics, shipping cases that travel. We’ll work to your designer’s drawings, or design from scratch if you need us to.

— Capability / 03

Custom stages and event sets

Stages built for the show. Branded LED frames that hold the keynote screen and the brand together. Set pieces that flex between sessions, from a panel set in the morning to an awards stage in the evening. Custom rostra, fabricated lecterns, presenter sets. Build and Productions scope the stage and the AV plan together.

— Capability / 04

Scenic for film and TV

Set construction for brand films, music videos, broadcast segments and in-studio shoots. Often delivered alongside Big Purple Capture when the camera and the set are designed together from the start. Smaller scale than live event work, higher precision. What reads from the back of an awards hall doesn’t read on a 4K close-up.

— Pricing

How we quote.

Build doesn’t publish rate cards. Every project is quoted against design, materials, fabrication time, install crew and freight. You get a single quote and a clear line-by-line spec: what’s included, what’s optional, what would change the cost meaningfully if the brief moves. Happy to quote a high, middle and minimum-viable version if it helps.

— Questions

Frequently asked.

How early should we brief Build for a major activation?

Six to eight weeks for a custom build is comfortable. Four weeks is workable. Less than four weeks is fast-tracked — possible, but the design and fabrication windows compress, and the cost reflects it.

Do you store builds between shows?

Yes. We have storage at the Gateshead workshop, and brands that exhibit across multiple shows often hold their build with us between events.

Do you do sustainable / B Corp-friendly builds?

Yes — and we’re transparent about what’s possible. Reusable substructures, FSC-certified ply, low-impact finishes, modular design for multiple uses, end-of-life take-back where the brand wants it. We’re not B Corp ourselves yet, but the build practices we use sit comfortably inside what a B Corp brand needs to specify.

Will you collaborate with an existing creative agency on the brand?

Always. Build is the studio that makes the thing — not the studio that owns the creative concept. When there’s a creative agency on the brand, we deliver to their concept and guidelines.

Got a build to scope?

Send the brief, the brand or the venue. A design lead picks it up and comes back with the questions worth asking before drawing starts.