Pop-Up Activations
Day-of and weekend pop-ups — sidewalk takeovers, retail residencies, sampling builds, photo moments. Modular scenic, LED panels, lighting, and trained staff. Concept to deploy in three weeks if we own the build from kickoff.
Brand activations, immersive pop-ups, branded pavilions, mobile tours, and sponsor lounges. Concept through strike with one crew that owns scenic, LED, lighting, audio, and rigging — no vendor stitching, no orphaned cues.
Experiential lives or dies on the handoff between creative and crew. We collapse that handoff — the same team that signs off on the render builds the truss, hangs the LED, and runs the show. Here are the four formats we deliver most weeks in LA.
Day-of and weekend pop-ups — sidewalk takeovers, retail residencies, sampling builds, photo moments. Modular scenic, LED panels, lighting, and trained staff. Concept to deploy in three weeks if we own the build from kickoff.
Architectural builds for trade shows, festivals, and conference floors. Fabricated walls, suspended ceilings, interior video, branded furniture, and sponsor signage. Built modular for repeat deploys across the event calendar.
Multi-city tours where the same activation lands in LA, NY, MIA, ATL, and Austin. Truck-pack road cases, repeat crew, performance tracking per market. Scope scales with truck count and city count, not headcount.
Premium hospitality builds at sports, music, and award events. Branded interior, curated furniture, integrated LED and audio, controlled lighting, and a service-trained host crew. Same blueprint, customized brand wrap per partner.
Every activation moves through the same four phases. We give you a date for each milestone at kickoff, and the crew working the install is the crew that helped scope the build.
You arrive with a brand, a budget, and a feeling. We arrive with a producer, a designer, and a technical director. Inside ten business days we return a CAD set, materials list, lighting plot, content brief, build schedule, and the bid. Revisions happen in this phase — fixing things on paper is free, fixing them in the shop is not.
Before the truck leaves the shop you see the activation. We mock the critical sections in our LA warehouse — a corner of the pavilion, the LED moment, the lighting state for the hero photo. You walk through, we adjust, you sign. For tour builds we also produce a 3D walkthrough so brand stakeholders in other cities can review without a flight.
Our crew lands at the venue with the build, the rigging, the LED, the lighting, and the audio in one truck call. We rig, build scenic, run signal, calibrate LED, focus lighting, train your event staff, and run a full dress rehearsal before doors. The producer who scoped the bid is on radios from gate. Same crew that built the render builds the room.
Strike is a discipline, not an afterthought. We pack to road cases by department, label every flight case for the next deploy, deliver a damages punch-list inside 24 hours, and reset the venue to its load-in state. For tour builds, the cases roll straight to the next city. For one-offs, the kit goes back to inventory ready to ship.
We don't publish a rate card because two events with the same square footage rarely cost the same. What drives the number: pixel pitch (for LED), fixture density (for lighting), engine + camera count (for XR), permitting (for SFX), and how much load-in lives inside our 24-hour window. Tell us what you're building and we'll come back with a number engineered to it.
Want a directional estimate before you brief us? Run the LED Wall Calculator — it returns panel count, weight, power draw, and a band you can sense-check internally before you send us a brief.
Most of our pop-ups and pavilions land inside these six dispatch zones. We know the dock access, the permit windows, and the load-in chokepoints by heart.
A streetwear pop-up doesn't run like a pharma activation. Same kit, different rigging plan, different staff briefing, different sound profile. Each market below has its own scoping page.
Scenic, LED, lighting, audio, rigging, and production live under one roof. You sign one bid, get one invoice, and call one producer when the venue manager changes the dock window at 2 a.m.
The producer who quotes the build is on radios at install. No handoff from sales to a junior PM mid-project. How we work covers the producer-to-crew structure in detail.
Every build packs to road cases by department, labeled and barcoded. A pop-up that ran in DTLA last month rolls into Miami next month without re-scoping the structure. Service stack.
We design and build the physical environment a brand uses to land a message in front of a live audience. That covers the structure, the surfaces, the LED, the lighting, the audio, the staff training, and the run-of-show. A creative concept arrives as a deck or a mood board. We come back with a CAD set, a budget, a build schedule, and a crew. On show day, our team is on radios from gate up through strike. See past projects for the format.
We start with discovery — a 20-minute call to understand the room, the run-of-show, and the look you're after. From there we do a site visit (or virtual walkthrough) to verify load-in, power, rigging points, and sightlines. That feeds an engineering document with fixture or panel counts, crew, transport, and any permitting. The fixed quote follows the engineering doc, line-itemed so you can see exactly where each number lands. No surprise add-ons after signature.
Six to eight weeks is the comfortable lead time for a custom build with fabricated scenic, LED, and lighting. Three to four weeks is workable if the structure is stock-modular and the creative is locked. Anything tighter than two weeks gets quoted as a rush — we can do it, but you pay shop overtime and rush-fab fees. The longest single phase is usually creative approval cycles, not fabrication.
Yes. Our production team pulls fire marshal sign-off, parking permits, sidewalk closures, and amplified sound permits where required. We also walk the venue with the building manager, confirm dock access, run a power survey, and lock the load-in window. Permit pass-through is at cost — no markup. For city-owned spaces like Grand Park, Pershing Square, or Santa Monica Pier, we file the application and shepherd it through.
Yes. We run multi-city brand tours where the same activation lands in LA, New York, Miami, Atlanta, and Austin on a rolling schedule. The structure is built modular so it packs into truck-ready road cases. Crew travels with the activation or staffs locally per market. We track build hours, repairs, and on-site numbers across the tour so you have a real performance dashboard, not a guess.
Four phases. Concept — we sit with your team, review the brief, and return a CAD set, budget, and build schedule inside ten business days. Preview — we mock the activation in our shop or in a 3D walkthrough, get sign-off on materials, lighting looks, and content. Install — we load in, build on site, calibrate, and rehearse with your staff. Strike — we tear down, pack out, and deliver a punch-list of damages, refurbs, and tour-ready cases for the next market.