We deliver beautiful brand environments and compelling customer experiences for businesses seeking to build awareness, generate leads, improve customer engagement and increase sales. We connect your company's brand story with authentic and inspired physical environments for tradeshows, roadshows, marketing suites and corporate events. We always aim to deliver a frictionless user experience and a tangible expression of your brand to help you "open" a relationship with new customers, improve the live experience for your current customers and ultimately bring your brand to life.
Our design, marketing and project management capabilities include idea generation, 3D and 2D design, environmental interior design, interaction design, space planning, marketing communications, event tech, social, market research, logistics, budgeting, and health and safety compliance. Production of all design work is created in-house, on budget and executed perfectly. To deliver the most cost-effective logistical solution, we collaborate with a network of approved and validated contractors for the fabrication and installation of our designs throughout the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
We exist because we genuinely believe we can make a difference in helping our clients to dramatically and rapidly increase sales, multiply profits, and maximise their customer value with engaging environments and experiences that will attract attention, awaken the interest, create desire and make customers take action. Our advantage is our vast experience in exhibitions, tradeshows, roadshows, conferences, corporate events and retail displays and our highly-effective and consistent solutions that help you to go further with your customers to deepen the brand experience and deliver real results.
Why we are different
We create work that is consistent and incredibly faithful to the brand. Whether your marketing goals are customer engagement, brand awareness or generating sales leads, we help you engage with your target audiences through beautiful brand environments that add value, delights the audiences and improves customer retention. We take the time to get to know your business to ensure our design proposals are clearly communicating who you are and what your business is all about. Experts in our field, we truly understand and fully appreciate live brand experiences and can always deliver what we promise.
We not only provide the complete creative solution and detailed working drawings, but we also manage the fabrication, installation and breakdown, leaving you stress-free and better able to focus on your marketing goals. Unlike design and build companies - where you are stuck with the price if you like the design - we work with a large network of qualified contractors who price competitively to enable us to deliver solutions that represent unbeatable value for money. Our global network of specialist suppliers allows us to deliver fabricated, well-considered and high-quality branded structures and environments whether you are in the UK, Europe, Middle East or Asia.
SHAPES started life as Brian Bates Associates over 40 years ago working with some of the world’s biggest brands including Panasonic, BMW, Hitachi, Kawasaki, Siemens, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. Directors, Matt and Amanda, were both in senior creative and marketing roles when they decided to take the leap from employees to business owners - and they've never looked back! Their capabilities complement each other perfectly, and they both enjoy the rewards that come with business ownership. For over a decade they've combined their expertise to excellent effect, solving complex problems and delivering to short lead-times - critical when working in events!
Your success measures our success. For us it’s not just producing something that looks great; it needs to deliver results for you. We have always believed that exhibition and event design and marketing is about reaching people. We are here to help you have more productive, personalised and profitable conversations with your customers, prospects, partners or your wider industry to create the opportunities for enduring and mutually beneficial relationships. We begin our creative process with the "end in mind" and a clear vision of superior experiences that will successfully convert customers into brand advocates and help you to accomplish extraordinary business results.
