
What Is Rigging in a Trade Show Stand? Everything You Need to Know Before Your Next Trade Show
You have the stand design, the message and the team sorted… and then someone from production mentions rigging. What exactly is that?
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You have the stand design, the message and the team sorted… and then someone from production mentions rigging. What exactly is that?

When you see a stand at a trade show and wonder how that giant screen is hanging in the air, or where the spotlights lighting the whole space are suspended from, the answer almost always has the same name: truss.

The stand looks impeccable, with materials that “seem” eco-friendly, graphics that talk about environmental commitment and a screen showing carbon footprint data. It all looks great. It all looks very green.
Then someone in the audience asks you: “What certification do these materials have?”

A render is a communication tool, not a photograph of the future. Its purpose is to turn an idea into something visible, debatable and ready for approval before spending a single euro on materials.

The visitor has been walking for 40 minutes, has already seen 30 stands, and their brain is in survival mode — processing fast, discarding fast.
What makes them stop at yours, out of all the stands?

Before requesting a quote or approving a stand, you need to know what it is made up of and what each part should contribute.

A beautiful booth will attract visitors. A well-designed booth will boost your CRM.

Discover how the human brain processes stimuli at a trade fair and what that means for your stand design. Neuroscience applied to exhibition marketing.

Finally, when the team returns to the office, the inevitable question arises: and what has this given us?