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CES 2027 · January 6–9, 2027 · Las VegasView planning guide

Custom, rental, or hybrid

Design the CES exhibit around what visitors need to see and do

A useful concept begins with products, demonstrations, meetings, media, storage, staffing, accessibility, and the assigned footprint—not a decorative shell.

Choose the practical build model

Three valid approaches, selected against the project brief

Footprint, repeat use, brand requirements, product complexity, schedule, storage, budget, and venue constraints determine the right balance.

Rental exhibit

Rental

Best considered when: A defined footprint, shorter use cycle, and an efficient path through existing architecture.

Planning focus: Select active inventory, adapt graphics and finishes, then resolve products, storage, media, and service requirements.

Custom exhibit

Custom

Best considered when: A distinct environment, specialized product needs, repeated use, or requirements not supported by available rental inventory.

Planning focus: Engineer, fabricate, test, pack, install, document, store, and maintain program assets across the approved life cycle.

Hybrid exhibit

Hybrid

Best considered when: A branded, differentiated presentation that combines rental architecture with purpose-built focal elements.

Planning focus: Use existing systems where they add efficiency and invest custom work where it changes the visitor or product experience.

A decision-ready brief

Define the work before comparing concepts

A clear brief gives design, production, logistics, labor, and show-service teams the same operating assumptions.

  • Visitor actions and priority audiences
  • Products, demonstrations, security, power, and connectivity
  • Meeting, hospitality, consultation, and storage needs
  • Graphics, media, content, and lead-capture responsibilities
  • Accessible paths, counters, displays, controls, and seating
  • Footprint, venue, schedule, freight, labor, and dismantle constraints

From brief to installed environment

A six-checkpoint custom exhibit workflow

Approvals and production gates are kept visible so design decisions remain connected to engineering, graphics, freight, labor, and show opening.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    Confirm objectives, audience, products, demonstrations, footprint, schedule, stakeholders, and the visitor action the exhibit should support.

  2. 02

    Design and engineering

    Translate the brief into a plan for sightlines, traffic flow, graphics, media, storage, staffing, accessibility, and approvals.

  3. 03

    Graphics and production

    Coordinate rental components, custom elements, graphic preflight, finishing, technical details, quality checks, and packing.

  4. 04

    Logistics

    Plan freight routing, advance warehouse or direct-to-show delivery, material handling, storage, and return transportation.

  5. 05

    Installation and show opening

    Coordinate labor, supervise installation, resolve the punch list, confirm presentation quality, and support an orderly opening.

  6. 06

    Dismantle and return handling

    Supervise dismantle, packing, outbound handoff, storage or return routing, and the project closeout review.

Active exhibit rentals

Start with active rental architecture

Review current rental designs, then identify where graphics, finishes, counters, displays, storage, media, or purpose-built features should adapt the base system.

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Buyer questions

Custom exhibit planning FAQs

These answers define a practical starting point. Final engineering, service ownership, schedule, and commercial scope remain project-specific.

How do we decide between a rental, custom, or hybrid exhibit?

Start with the assigned footprint, visitor actions, product and demonstration requirements, repeat-use plan, brand standards, schedule, storage, logistics, venue constraints, and budget range. Active rental architecture can improve efficiency, custom work can solve specialized needs, and a hybrid can focus custom investment on the areas that change the experience.

Can a design be finalized before the venue and show rules are confirmed?

A concept can begin, but the buildable direction should remain conditional until the assigned space, height and line-of-sight limits, utilities, fire and accessibility requirements, labor conditions, move-in schedule, and applicable show rules are confirmed from current official materials.

What information makes the first design review more useful?

Share the show, confirmed dates, venue, footprint, audience, visitor actions, products, demonstrations, screens, staffing, meeting and storage needs, current assets, brand files, style direction, goals, budget range, and internal approval path. Unknown answers can remain clearly marked for follow-up.

How are graphics, freight, labor, and show services handled?

The approved project scope can connect graphics production, warehousing, freight routing, material handling coordination, qualified installation and dismantle labor, and venue-controlled service orders. Responsibilities and exclusions are documented because the organizer, venue, contractors, and unions control parts of the process independently.

Can an active rental exhibit be adapted into a more custom environment?

Yes, when the active design, footprint, engineering, schedule, and venue conditions support the direction. The exhibit identity, imagery, approved description, and price state remain factual; graphics, finishes, counters, media, storage, lighting, and purpose-built elements are scoped separately for the project.

Complete project brief

Request a custom exhibit consultation

Use the same secure five-step request available on the quote page. Entries remain available while moving between Your Info, Show Details, Exhibit Needs, Design Vision, and Review & Submit.

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Tell us who should receive the project follow-up. Marketing consent is not required to request a quote.

Plan the next step

Prefer to discuss the footprint, product story, and schedule first?

Call the supplied public number for time-sensitive planning, or use the completed five-step brief above to send the project details and optional private files.

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