What is a modular artist booth kit?

A modular artist booth kit is a set of interlocking frosted panels and connectors that snap together by hand, with no tools, to build display walls, shelves, and cubes for artist alley tables, convention booths, and markets. You arrange the panels to suit your space, then take it apart and rebuild it differently at your next event. Our kits are designed around a standard 180 cm / 6 ft table and can expand to cover a corner or a full booth.

How are your panels better than wire grid cubes?

Wire grid cubes work, but your art competes with the busy metal mesh and clutter showing through. Our frosted panels give you a clean, light-diffusing backdrop so your prints and merch stand out. They are far lighter than steel grids, pack completely flat for travel, and snap into different layouts in under 30 minutes with no tools.

What size tables do your kits fit?

Square Core Kit and Shapeshift Kit fit half tables and counters (around 90 cm / 3 ft). Shapeshift Duo Kit fits a full 180 cm / 6 ft table with tall framing. Shapeshift Max Kit fits double and corner setups (360 cm / 12 ft), free-standing booths, and full convention exhibitor spaces. Every panel and connector is cross-compatible.

How long does setup take?

Most artists have their kit fully set up in under 30 minutes, with no tools and no zip ties. You simply snap the connectors into the panels and stack.

Do you ship internationally?

Yes. We ship worldwide using FedEx Express, and shipping is free on orders over $300 AUD. For 33 countries including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the EU, we ship Delivered Duty Paid so the price you see covers customs duties and import taxes.

Can I mix two colours in one kit?

Yes. The Shapeshift Duo and Duo Max kits are built to be two-tone. You can also mix in extra colours with the square and mini rectangle panel add-on packs.

How much weight can these setups hold?

Each shelf panel holds up to 5 kg / 11 lb when built correctly, which covers prints, books, apparel, bags, figures and most 3D merch.

Pre-order deals: new 2.0 display kits

Early bird deals for our next-generation Artist Booths kits.

Printable PDF resources to get ready for your next convention.

Free digital resources

Subscribe to get these free digital downloads. Sign up to our newsletter, then use the same email at checkout - the price will drop to $0 with no payment needed.

CON-QUEST: Event Checklist & Planner

$2.99 AUD

Booth Sketcher & Planner

$2.99 AUD

Artist Back Alley Resources Blog

Indoor Con Halls vs Outdoor Markets: Two Different Display Games

We'll say it plainly. Indoor con halls and outdoor markets are not the same job wearing different clothes. They're two different games, and vendors who treat them the same usually get burned once before they learn.Indoors, you're fighting for attention under fluorescent lights next to a hundred other booths screaming for the same eyeballs. Height and colour win that fight. You want panels stacked tall, art facing outward at eye level, and a setup that reads clearly from ten feet away in a crowd moving at con-hall speed. Nobody outdoors is competing with a wall of booths behind them, but indoors that wall is your whole battlefield.Outdoors it's a completely different fight. You're not competing with booth density, you're competing with the sky. Sun glare, gusts, the chance of rain rolling in an hour before close. A setup that looks incredible under con lighting can get wrecked by ten minutes of wind if it wasn't built with that in mind. Weight distribution and quick teardown matter more outdoors than colour theory ever will.One kit, two completely different setupsHere's the part people miss. You don't need two different display systems for these two worlds. You need ONE system that reconfigures. The Angled kits take that further with the any-angle panel, which swings both ways and sets at any angle, so the same kit can be a tall wall indoors and a stall with an awning or a roof outdoors. The modular artist booth display kit goes up in under 30 minutes with no tools either way, but how you build it should change with the venue. Indoors, build tall and dense. Outdoors, build low and weighted. Same panels, same frame, completely different instincts driving the layout.Vendors who do both circuits well aren't the ones with the fanciest booth. They're the ones who actually think about which game they're playing before they start unpacking. Check the full kit lineup and stop assuming your indoor setup will just work outside. It won't, not without rethinking it first.

Why Less Table Doesn't Mean Less Sales

We hear it every con season. Someone gets assigned a 3ft table instead of the 6ft they wanted and treats it like a punishment. Like the sales are already gone before doors even open. We've watched this happen at booth after booth, and honestly, it's a story vendors tell themselves, not something the table actually decides. Sales don't come from table length. They come from what a customer sees in the first three seconds of walking past. A cluttered 6ft table with everything laid flat loses to a tight 3ft setup with one strong piece at eye level and a clean wall behind it, every single time. We've seen it happen at the same show, side by side, more than once. Small footprints force the edit you should've made anyway A huge table lets you avoid decisions. You just spread everything out and hope something lands. A small table doesn't give you that option, and that's a GOOD thing. It makes you pick your best pieces, zone your best sellers at arm's reach, and put your name where people can actually read it. Customers respond to that clarity whether they realize it or not. This is exactly why a modular panel wall earns its keep on tiny footprints. It builds up instead of out, stacking as high as 175cm off a table that might only be 90cm wide. Your display size stops being tied to your table size. The wall carries the visual weight your table can't. We're not saying bigger tables are bad. We're saying the panic about small ones is misplaced. The right kit for a small footprint sets up in under 30 minutes with no tools, packs down into a case small enough to carry on a flight, and rebuilds itself to whatever table you get handed next. Over a thousand artists running these kits are averaging 4.9 stars, and plenty of them are running that rating off 3ft tables, not 6ft ones. So the next time you get assigned a small table, don't mourn the space you didn't get. Build tighter, cleaner, taller. The sales were never about the six feet.

Why Full-Time Vendors Invest Differently In Their Displays

Ask a weekend vendor about their table setup and they'll shrug. Ask someone doing this full-time and they'll talk your ear off about grid spacing, setup time, and how many panels they run for a 6ft table. That's not obsession. That's just what happens when your booth becomes your storefront instead of a hobby prop.Your booth stops being decoration and starts being infrastructureWhen vending is a side thing, your display just needs to look nice for a couple weekends a year. When it's your income, that same display gets set up and torn down dozens of times a season, dragged through convention centers, and expected to survive it. We stop thinking about displays as pretty backdrops and start thinking about them as EQUIPMENT. Equipment gets budgeted for properly, because equipment failing mid-show is a lost sales day, not just an inconvenience.That's why full-timers gravitate toward something built for repeated use, like a modular booth kit that's designed to go up and down fast without falling apart after the fifteenth con. A tri-fold cardboard display bought for one convention just isn't built for that life.It also changes how we think about capacity. A hobbyist buys one kit and never thinks about it again. Someone scaling toward full-time starts asking what happens when their product line grows, whether their current setup can handle a bigger booth space next year, and whether the whole system can flex up without a total rebuild. That's the difference between the Core kit and something like the Shapeshift Duo, built for years of heavy convention use rather than a handful of local markets.The other shift is subtler. Full-time vendors start valuing SPEED as much as looks. Setup that eats an hour of load-in isn't just annoying, it's an hour you're not greeting early customers or getting your table dialed in before doors open. A setup that goes up in under 30 minutes with no tools isn't a luxury at that point. It's part of the math that makes vending sustainable as a job.None of this means you need to overspend the second you decide to take vending seriously. It means the calculation changes. You start weighing displays the way you'd weigh any other piece of business equipment, against durability, speed, and whether it can grow with you, not just whether it looks good in one con photo.Browse the full kit lineup and you'll notice the same pattern other full-timers land on: buy for the year you're building toward, not just the show this weekend.

Outdoor Market Displays: Wind, Weather And What Holds Up

Outdoor markets play by different rules than con halls. No walls, no climate control, no guaranteed shade. Here's what actually holds up when the wind picks up and the sky can't decide what it's doing. Weight low, not high. Wind grabs tall thin structures first. Keep your heaviest stock and shelf weight low on the panels, and don't stack your tallest pieces on the top row when gusts are forecast. A frame that's stable at 175cm tall indoors can still get pushed around outside if it's top-heavy. Clip your prints down, always. Even a light breeze will send loose prints sailing into the next vendor's table. Binder clips, magnets, or weighted print bins are non-negotiable outdoors. Treat every flat surface as something the wind is trying to steal from. Frosted panels shrug off glare. Direct sun on a glossy display washes everything out and makes your art unreadable from three feet away. The 35x35cm frosted panels diffuse light instead of bouncing it straight into a customer's eyes, which matters a lot more outdoors than under fluorescent con lighting. Pack light because you're doing this solo. Outdoor markets rarely have loading docks or elevators. You're carrying gear from a car across grass or gravel, often alone. A kit that packs flat and travels light isn't a luxury here, it's the difference between one trip and four. Modular means you can shrink fast. Weather turns. A gust warning goes out mid-market and suddenly you need to drop your display height and consolidate. This is where the modular artist booth display kit earns its keep, panels come down and reconfigure in minutes without tools, so you can lower your profile instead of packing up entirely. Rain means your setup needs a fast teardown. A surprise shower shouldn't mean panicked scrambling. No-tool assembly works both directions, up in under 30 minutes and down just as fast when you need to protect your art NOW. Test your setup before show day. Set it up in your backyard or driveway once before your first outdoor market of the season. You want to know exactly how it handles in real wind, not guess on the day with customers watching. Outdoor markets reward vendors who plan for weather instead of hoping it behaves. Browse the full range of modular kits and pick a size that matches the space you'll actually be working outdoors, not just the biggest one available.

The Pop-Up Retail Display Playbook For Small Brands

Pop-up shops live or die in a matter of hours. You don't have weeks to build a following in that space, you have whatever foot traffic walks past on the day. A small brand with a strong display can outsell a bigger name with a lazy one, because in a pop-up, the display IS the first impression. There's no website, no packaging on a shelf, just your table and thirty seconds to make someone stop.Think temporary structure, not permanent shop fit-outThe biggest mistake small brands make with pop-ups is trying to recreate a real store. That means custom shelving, heavy furniture, stuff that takes hours to install and doesn't survive being moved twice. Pop-ups need the opposite: a structure that goes up fast, looks intentional, and comes back down without falling apart. A modular panel system solves this directly. Our modular artist booth display kit builds a full backdrop behind a standard 180cm table in under 30 minutes, no tools required, and folds flat when the pop-up ends.Size the display to the space you're actually rentingPop-up spaces vary wildly. Some are a single table in a shared retail corner, others are a full storefront for a weekend. That's why sizing matters. The Core kit (24 panels) works for a tight single-table footprint. Shapeshift (46 panels) covers a full table, and its Angled version adds any-angle panels for awnings and roofs. Shapeshift Duo (92 panels) scales up to a 360cm double setup or a full exhibition-style booth for bigger pop-up takeovers. Check sizes against your actual floor plan in the modular booth kit collection before you commit.Colour is your brand's fastest signalIn a pop-up, you don't get time to explain your brand. Colour does that job instantly. Choose from 19+ exclusive frosted colours and stick with the same palette across every pop-up you run, it builds recognition the same way a real storefront would, just without the twelve-month lease.Plan for reuse, because pop-ups repeatOne good pop-up usually leads to another. Build a display that survives multiple events instead of one that gets binned after the first weekend. Ours ships from Sydney with 1-3 day processing to over 50 countries and carries a 4.9 star rating from more than 1,000 customers, so it's built to be picked up, packed down, and used again.How fast can I actually set this up for a one-day pop-up?Under 30 minutes, no tools. That leaves time to actually merchandise the table instead of fighting with a frame.Does it work for a shared retail space, not just a solo booth?Yes. It fits neatly behind a standard table, so it works whether you're the whole pop-up or sharing a corner with other small brands.What if my pop-up schedule changes month to month?That's exactly what it's built for. It packs flat, travels light, and scales from a single table to a bigger double setup, so the same kit follows your schedule instead of limiting it.A pop-up gives you one shot at a first impression. Build the display that earns it.

The One Design Choice That Ties A Whole Booth Together

A friend of ours ran her first big con with three folding tables, a mismatched tablecloth she'd had since college, and a hand-painted sign leaned against a water bottle to keep it upright. Her art was genuinely good. Foot traffic barely noticed. She sold maybe a dozen prints across two days and left convinced her work wasn't good enough for the room.It wasn't the work. It was the wall behind it.Six months later, same artist, same prints, different booth. This time she'd picked two frosted panel colours that matched the palette in her actual paintings, a deep slate blue and a soft lilac, and built a simple backdrop out of a modular booth kit. No new signage. No new banner. Same prints, same price tags, same table size. She sold out of two designs by Saturday afternoon.The wall did the work the sign never couldWhat changed wasn't the art. It was the ONE decision to make her backdrop match her work instead of ignoring it. Because the panels are frosted polypropylene, light diffused through them instead of glaring back at shoppers the way a plastic tablecloth does under convention hall lighting. Her paintings looked lit from within instead of sitting in front of a random surface.That's the pattern we see over and over. Artists chase bigger signs, louder banners, more merch spread across more tables, when the actual lever is simpler: does your backdrop colour match your work, or is it just whatever you had lying around.It held up because it was repeatableThe part that actually mattered long term wasn't just that one show. It's that the setup packed flat, went back together in under 30 minutes with no tools at the next event, and looked exactly the same both times. Her booth started to become recognizable, the blue and lilac wall, before people even got close enough to see the prints. Regulars started looking for it.If you're staring at a booth that isn't converting the way your art deserves, don't reach for a bigger sign first. Look at what's actually behind your table. Browse the modular artist booth kits range and find the two or three colours that already live in your work. That's the tie that pulls a whole booth together, and it's usually simpler than the fix you were about to make instead.

Why Every Kit Ships With More Parts Than The Bare Minimum

Cheap display kits count every panel like it's a cost to shave. You get exactly enough to fill the space and not one piece more. That's how a broken connector on a Friday night turns into a half-built booth on Saturday morning. Here's why the Artist Booths lineup does it differently, and why that matters for your table. Spares aren't an upsell, they're already in the box Every kit, Core through Shapeshift Duo, ships with spare panels and connectors included. You're not paying extra for a backup plan. It's already sitting in your kit case the day it arrives. A cracked connector shouldn't end your show Panels get loaded and unloaded dozens of times a year, jammed into cars, dropped on concrete loading docks, packed too tight in a tote. Spares mean a snapped connector is a two minute fix, not a gap in your wall for the whole weekend. Layouts change more than people plan for You show up to a venue and your assigned table is a different shape than you expected, or you get a corner spot instead of a straight run. Extra parts give you room to adjust your layout on the spot instead of forcing the same configuration every single time. It sets you up to grow without a second order Because every panel and connector is cross-compatible across the whole kit lineup, the extra pieces in your current kit can carry over when you expand. Buying a Shapeshift kit now with room to spare means less friction when you eventually step up to a full Shapeshift Duo setup. It's proof the kit was built for years of use, not one season A kit sized to the bare minimum is a kit built to be replaced. Matched panel and connector counts with spares baked in is a kit built to survive a full convention circuit, market after market, year after year. Combined with a setup that stays under 30 minutes with no tools, that's the whole point of buying a modular system instead of a one-off display. None of this is filler. Every extra piece in the box is there because real vendors, running real tables at real shows, kept running into the same problems. The fix was simple: stop shipping the bare minimum.

The Space-Saving Tricks Vendors Learn The Hard Way

The first time an artist we know did a market stall, she brought her whole convention setup. Grid walls, a folding rack, two totes of overflow stock stashed under the table in plain sight, prints stacked flat because there wasn't room to hang half of them. The stall was 4ft wide. She'd planned for 8. By hour two she was climbing over her own inventory to make change, and half her line never came out of the totes. That's the lesson almost every vendor learns the same way. Not from a blog post, from standing in a space too small for the gear they brought and realizing it live, mid-show, with a line forming. The rack that ate the aisle Her grid wall needed a wide floor stand just to stay upright, and that stand alone took up nearly a third of her footprint before a single print went on it. Vertical space existed right above the table, completely unused, while the floor space she actually needed for customers to stand in got swallowed by hardware. The fix she found later was almost embarrassingly simple. A panel wall that connects behind the table instead of standing in front of it. No separate floor footprint, no wide base stand stealing aisle room. The panels click together with ABS connectors and climb straight up off the back of the table itself, up to 5 panels high, around 175cm. Same display height as her old rack. Zero extra floor eaten. The totes under the table Overflow stock hidden under the table sounds harmless until a customer asks for another color and you're on your knees digging through a bin in front of a line. She solved this one with shelves instead of storage bins. PLA hooks clip shelves directly onto the panel wall, each holding up to 5kg, so what used to live hidden under the table now lives visible and reachable at arm height. No more digging mid-transaction. If it's not on the wall or a shelf, it doesn't come to the show. The kit she wishes she'd started with She ended up on the 46-panel Shapeshift, the smart default for anyone building around a low, half-table setup near 90cm. It matched the smaller stalls she actually books most of the year. For the handful of bigger 6ft conventions, the same style of build scales up in the wider kits across the modular kit collection, so she isn't buying separate gear for separate show sizes anymore. The part that still surprises her Setup now takes under 30 minutes with no tools, and the whole kit packs flat into a case around 56x36x23cm that fits in her car trunk next to everything else. The version of her that once needed a full afternoon and a friend's help to wrestle a grid wall upright would not believe it. Most space-saving lessons get learned the hard way, at a show, mid-panic. Hers just happened to stick.

Why Empty Table Space Is Costing You Sales

Picture this. Doors open, the hall floods with people, and your table sits there with three prints laid flat, a bin of stickers, and a big stretch of bare tablecloth on the far end. You figured you'd fill it in later once you saw how the crowd moved. Two hours pass. You never got around to it. And the whole time, the table next to you, half your inventory, same size booth, has had a steady trickle of people stopping, picking things up, actually buying.That's not luck. That's math. Every centimeter of bare table is a centimeter doing nothing for you while you're paying con rates to be there. It's not decoration, it's real estate, and empty real estate doesn't sell art.We hear the same reasoning every time this comes up. "I didn't want to overcrowd it." Fair instinct, but there's a wide gap between overcrowded and empty, and most vendors who worry about clutter swing way too far the other direction and leave half their table doing nothing. The fix isn't piling on more stock. It's going vertical with what you already have.This is where a flat table setup actually loses to a wall setup, even at the exact same table size. A modular panel system turns that bare stretch of tablecloth into standing display space, prints hung at eye level instead of lying flat where half the hall never even glances down. The modular booth kit line is built around 35x35cm panels that click together without tools, so filling that dead space doesn't mean a trip back to the hotel for more stock. It means using the panels you already packed, just arranged with actual intention.Here's the part that stings a little. That vendor with the bare table probably paid the SAME booth fee as their neighbor pulling steady sales. Same square footage, same rent, wildly different return, and the only difference was how much of the vertical space actually got used. A kit that scales from 24 panels up to 92 means you can match the display to your table size exactly, Core for a tight corner spot, Shapeshift or Duo if you've got a full 180cm table to work with, so there's no excuse for a setup that looks half-finished by the time doors open.If your table has ever looked like it was still being unpacked an hour into the con, that's the tell. Fix the space, not the inventory. Check the full range of kits and build something that actually uses every bit of the table you're already paying for.

Regional Small Cons vs Major Conventions: What Changes

A folding table setup that kills it at your local library con can fall flat at a 40,000-person mega convention. And a rig built for a big show can feel like overkill at a small regional one. Booth strategy is not one-size-fits-all. Here is what actually changes between the two, and how to build a display that flexes with you.Foot traffic changes everythingSmall regional cons might see a few hundred to a couple thousand people over a weekend. People walk slow. They talk to you. They read your bins. At a major con, you're getting flash-glanced by thousands of people an hour, most of them mid-stride, overstimulated, and looking for a landmark to remember your table by. Your display needs to work as a billboard at big shows and as a conversation starter at small ones.Height and visibility rules are differentAt small cons you can often get away with a low-profile setup because aisles are wide and crowds are thin. At major cons, tall booths around you will swallow a flat table setup completely. This is where panel height matters. A modular artist booth display kit builds up to 5 panels high, roughly 175cm, tall enough to actually get seen over heads in a packed hall. At a small show you can run it lower and wider instead. Same kit, different configuration, zero extra gear bought.Setup time and turnaroundSmall cons usually give you a relaxed morning to set up. Major cons cram hundreds of artists into a tight load-in window, sometimes under an hour before doors open, and staff will hover if you're slow. This is where tool-free setup stops being a nice spec on a page and starts being the reason you're not sweating at 8:45am. A full modular kit goes up in under 30 minutes with no tools. That matters double when you're doing back-to-back shows and packing out Sunday night to drive to the next one Thursday.Which kit size actually fitsRegional shows often box you into a single 6ft table with barely any depth behind it. Core (24 panels) is built for exactly that footprint and keeps your setup tight without crowding your own workspace. Bigger shows sometimes hand out double-wide spaces or corner spots, where Shapeshift Duo or Shapeshift Angled Duo (92 panels each) actually get to stretch out and hold real shelf weight, up to 5kg per shelf on the 35x35cm frosted panels. Buy for the biggest show you regularly do, then scale down for the small ones. Going the other way doesn't work.Do I need a bigger display for a major con?Not necessarily bigger, but taller and denser usually helps. Height wins the visibility fight in a packed hall more than footprint does.Can one kit realistically cover both show types?Yes, that's the whole point of a modular system. You add or remove panels and shelves depending on the space you're handed instead of owning two separate setups.What changes fastest between regional and major cons?Load-in time. A relaxed regional morning versus a brutal major-con crunch is the single biggest planning difference, and it should shape how fast your setup routine actually is, not just how good it looks.Bottom line: build one flexible system and adjust it per show instead of building a new booth every time the venue changes.

Making Your Merch Table Feel Like An Extension Of Your Instagram

If someone follows your Instagram, then walks past your booth and doesn't recognize it, you've got a branding gap. Your feed has a palette. Your booth should have the SAME one. Here's how to actually close that gap instead of just talking about it.Audit your grid before you touch your boothScreenshot your last 12 posts and lay them out. What colours actually repeat? Most artists are surprised how narrow their real palette is once they see it laid flat, usually two or three dominant tones plus a neutral. That's your booth palette. Not your favourite colour, the colour that's already IN your feed.Panels are your physical gridA modular artist booth display kit gives you frosted polypropylene panels in 19+ exclusive colours, so you can match your actual feed palette instead of settling for whatever tablecloth was in stock. The frosted finish diffuses light so your prints glow against the panels the same way a well-lit flatlay glows in a feed post, instead of sitting flat against harsh reflective plastic.Consistency is the actual flexAnyone can build one good-looking booth once. The artists who build a recognizable brand are the ones whose booth looks the same in July as it does in December. Because these kits pack flat and set up in under 30 minutes with no tools, keeping the same layout and colours every show is realistic, not just aspirational. Whether you run a Core (24 panels), a Shapeshift (46 panels), or a Shapeshift Duo (92 panels), pick the tier that matches your table size and stick with it. Panels fit a standard 180cm/6ft table and stack up to five high, about 175cm, so you've got real wall space to work with, the same way you'd use a full feed grid instead of one lonely post.Shoot your booth like you'd shoot a flatlayOnce your panel colours match your feed, treat your table setup the same way you'd style a product photo. Group merch by colour block, leave breathing room instead of cramming every item edge to edge, and let the frosted panels be the backdrop, not a competing pattern. That's the difference between a table that looks busy and one that looks curated.What if my art style changes seasonally?Keep your panel colours as the constant base and let seasonal prints rotate in front of them. Two or three fixed panel colours plus rotating merch reads as intentional, not messy.How do I pick colours if my Instagram feed is already mixed?Pick the two colours that show up most often across your last 20 posts and build around those. You can browse the full modular artist booth kits range to see which frosted tones come closest to your existing palette.Does the frosted finish actually make a visible difference in photos?Yes. Because light passes through the frosted polypropylene instead of bouncing off it, your booth photos avoid the harsh glare you get from glossy printed banners, which matters a lot once that photo is competing in a feed full of other booths.Match your booth to your feed and people will recognize you before they read your name tag.

What Farmers Market Vendors Can Learn From Con Culture

Convention artist alley has turned booth design into a science. Vendors there fight for attention in packed rows, all day, every day of the year, and they've figured out what actually works. Farmers market and craft fair vendors are fighting the exact same battle on a smaller scale, they just haven't borrowed the playbook yet. Here's what to steal. Height beats width, every time. Con vendors don't get more table space than anyone else, so they build UP with backdrop panels instead of spreading product sideways. A tall backdrop gets seen from across a hall. A wide flat table only gets seen by whoever's already standing in front of it. One consistent look, every event. Artist alley regulars run the same backdrop colours and layout at every con because repeat customers recognize it instantly. Farmers market vendors change their setup weekly and wonder why nobody remembers them. Pick a look, in one of our 19+ frosted colours, and keep it. The booth has to survive travel. Con artists are doing back-to-back weekends across different cities, so their gear has to fold flat and hold up. A modular panel kit that packs down in minutes beats a wooden frame that lives in pieces in the trunk. Setup under 30 minutes, no tools, matters just as much at a Saturday market as it does at a con. Scale the booth to the event, not the other way around. Con vendors know a single artist alley table needs a different setup than a shared 12ft booth at a bigger show. That's why kits like ours scale from Core (24 panels) up to Shapeshift Duo (92 panels) for a full exhibition build. Bring the right size instead of overbuilding or underbuilding every time. Original design beats generic stock. The best con booths don't look like everyone else's, because the vendor designed their own signage and colours instead of grabbing whatever a print shop had in stock. We design our own colours in-house too, we're not reselling a dropshipped panel system with our logo slapped on it. Treat the booth as an investment, not an expense. Con vendors run 3-4 shows a month and their booth pays for itself fast because it keeps getting reused. A farmers market table that folds up and travels light works the exact same way, week after week, season after season. None of this is exclusive to conventions. It's just what happens when vendors compete hard enough, long enough, to figure out what actually sells. Browse the modular booth kit collection or start with the modular artist booth display kit and bring some con-level thinking to your next Saturday market.

How To Justify A Bigger Display Budget To Yourself

You've been eyeing a proper booth setup for a while now. You keep talking yourself out of it. "My current setup still works." "Maybe next season." "I should wait until sales are better first." Sound familiar? Here's how to actually think it through instead of just stalling.Stop comparing it to one showThe math breaks if you only look at a single event. Of course a $20 wire cube looks cheaper than a proper kit when you're staring at one weekend. The real comparison is cost per show over the life of the gear. A kit built to last for years across many conventions spreads its cost thin fast, especially once you're past 15 or 20 shows on it. Do that math before you decide anything feels too expensive.Ask what your current setup is actually costing youIt's rarely just the sticker price of the cheap option. Add up replacement grids, extra totes for storage, the tablecloth you bought because the last one didn't fit right, the hour of setup time you lose every single show. A patchwork setup has hidden costs that never show up on one receipt but absolutely show up over a year.Match the size to where you're actually headedDon't buy for the table you have today if you know you're growing. If you're consistently outgrowing your space or getting bumped to bigger booth assignments, sizing up from a Core to a Shapeshift or Shapeshift now can save you from buying twice. If you're not sure, the Shapeshift is a safe size for a reason, it fits the widest range of booth situations without over-committing.Remember what you're actually buyingYou're not just buying panels. You're buying a setup that reconfigures into different layouts, sets up in under 30 minutes with no tools, and packs flat so it travels light. You're buying back your setup mornings and your peace of mind mid-show. That's worth factoring in, not just the panel count.How do I know if I'm ready to upgrade?If you're doing more than a handful of shows a year, or if your current setup has already needed repairs or replacement parts, you're past the point where waiting saves you money.What if I'm not sure which kit size fits my booth?Start with your typical booth footprint and check it against the full kit lineup, from the 24-panel Core up to the 92-panel Shapeshift Duo. Most vendors size up one tier from what they think they need.Is it worth it if I'm still early in my vendor journey?Honestly, that's often the best time. You avoid the trial-and-error years entirely and start every show already looking like you know what you're doing.The budget conversation with yourself gets a lot easier once you stop pricing one show and start pricing the next five years. Have a look at the modular display kit and run your own numbers before the next event sneaks up on you.

Building A Business Plan Around Your Convention Schedule

Most vendors plan their year one con at a time. You get the acceptance email, you panic about inventory, you show up, you sell, you go home and do it again. That works fine as a hobby. It falls apart the second you're trying to build something real.A convention schedule is actually a business calendar. Treat it like one and the rest of your year gets a lot less chaotic.Map your cons before you map your artStart with dates, not designs. Lay out every con you're accepted to (or applying for) across the year and look at the gaps. Three cons back to back in spring, then nothing until fall, is a cash flow problem waiting to happen. Once you can see the shape of your year, you can plan production, restocks, and even burnout recovery around it instead of reacting in real time.Budget for setup speed, not just booth feesNew vendors budget for table fees and print costs. Full-time vendors budget for TIME, because time at a con is the actual scarce resource. A booth that takes an hour to build eats into load-in stress and early sales. A modular booth kit that goes up in under 30 minutes with no tools means you're not sprinting through setup while other vendors are already greeting customers. Over a full season of cons, that adds up to real selling hours you'd otherwise lose.Plan inventory around your display, not the other way aroundA lot of vendors buy a table setup that can't actually hold what they make, then spend every con improvising with borrowed shelves and gaffer tape. Work backwards from your product mix. If you're doing prints, stickers, and a few bigger pieces, you need grid space that can flex between all three. Browsing a full kit lineup before your first big con of the season, rather than after a bad one, saves you from rebuilding your setup mid-year.Build in slow cons on purposeNot every con needs to be a banger. Smaller, local shows are where you test new merch, break in a new booth layout, or just recover pace without the pressure of a flagship event. A real business plan has room for those. Burnout is the actual thing that ends full-time vending careers, not bad sales.How far ahead should I plan my con calendar?Aim for a rolling 6 to 12 month view. Con applications often open months out, so you need enough runway to apply, get accepted, and still have time to produce inventory without rushing.Do I need a different booth setup for small local shows vs big cons?Not necessarily. A modular system that scales up or down means the same core kit works for a tiny weekend market and a major convention. You add panels as the show gets bigger instead of owning two entirely different setups.What's the biggest planning mistake new full-time vendors make?Booking every con they get into without leaving white space in the calendar. No recovery time between shows is how good years turn into burnt-out ones.Your schedule is the skeleton of your business. Build the rest around it and the season stops running you.

Planning Your Display Purchase Around Your Five Year Goals

Nobody plans a display purchase around where they'll be in five years. Most people buy for the next show, maybe the next season if they're feeling ambitious. But a booth is one of the few pieces of gear you can actually plan long term, because a good modular system doesn't age out. It just grows with your goals.Ask where you actually want to be, not where you areAre you doing a handful of local markets a year, or are you trying to work your way onto the convention circuit? Do you want a single table setup forever, or do you picture yourself running a double booth with tall framing and a corner wall someday? Your answer should shape which kit you start with, not because you need to buy the biggest one now, but because knowing the destination tells you how much room your system needs to grow into.Buy for today's table, plan for tomorrow's boothThe kit lineup is built exactly for this kind of staged growth. Core at 24 panels covers low walls and half tables for vendors just getting started. Shapeshift at 46 panels is the smart default for most single-table setups. Shapeshift Angled, 46 panels in six shapes, is the pick once you want a full table with any-angle panels for awnings, roofs and arches. Shapeshift Duo at 92 panels is built for double tables, corners, and full booths, the kind of setup that needs to hold up over years of heavy convention use.Because every panel and connector is cross-compatible across all four kits, you don't have to guess correctly on day one. Start with what fits your table now and add panels as your goals get bigger. Nothing you buy today becomes wasted money later.Think in years, not just weekendsA five year plan isn't about locking in a size. It's about picking a system that won't fight you when your goals change. The display kit fits a standard 180cm table today and scales up to a 360cm double setup whenever you're ready, with the same no-tools setup under 30 minutes at every size along the way.Should I just buy the biggest kit now to save time later?Not necessarily. Buy for your current table. Because everything is cross-compatible, upgrading later is additive, not a replacement. You save money by matching your kit to where you are today.What if my five year goals change?They probably will, and that's fine. The system doesn't care which direction you grow, since every panel and connector works with every other kit in the lineup.How do I know which kit fits my current goals?Match it to your table size and how you're setting up right now, low wall, half table, full table, or double table. That's the honest starting point, not a guess about the future.Plan five years out. Buy for this weekend. A real system lets you do both at once.

Standing Out Without Looking Try Hard

There's a specific look that reads as desperate at a con. Too many signs. Too many fonts. Every inch of table covered in something shouting for a look. It never actually works, and most artists can spot it from three booths away, even if they can't name why it feels off. Standing out isn't about volume. It's about control.The tell is always clutterA booth trying too hard usually has no hierarchy. Prices scrawled on ten different sticky notes, banners competing with each other, art hung with visible gaps and visible tape. None of that is a taste problem, it's a restraint problem. The fix isn't adding a bigger sign. It's removing the smaller ones until what's left actually matters. A clean grid of 35x35cm panels does more work for your booth's credibility than any single flashy element ever will, because consistency reads as intentional even before someone looks at the art itself.Let the structure be quietThe booths that look effortless usually have the least visible hardware. Frosted polypropylene panels and connectors that disappear into the joins mean the eye goes straight to your work instead of getting caught on mismatched grid cubes or exposed zip ties. That's the real difference between a booth that looks curated and one that looks assembled in a hurry, even when both took the same twenty minutes to set up.Consistency beats noveltyYou don't need a gimmick to get remembered. A recognizable color palette across your panels, the same setup style show after show, builds the kind of familiarity that gets people saying "oh I know this booth" before they even check your name tag. That's earned by showing up with a system, not by reinventing your layout every single con out of panic. Starting from a proper modular booth kit means your base structure stays the same and only your art changes, which is exactly the kind of quiet consistency that reads as professional.Pick your one loud thingRestraint doesn't mean boring. It means picking ONE element to be loud, a signature print, a strong color block, a shelf display, and letting everything else support it. A booth with five things competing for attention has zero focal points. A booth with one clear focal point and calm surroundings gets remembered specifically for that one thing, which is a much better outcome than being remembered as "busy."What's the fastest way to fix a cluttered booth?Remove first, add never. Pull anything that isn't your art or your pricing, then only add back what earns its spot. Most vendors are shocked how much better a booth looks with less on it.Do I need matching banners and signage to look put together?Not required, but a consistent panel color across your whole setup does most of that work already. Browse the kit lineup and pick one of the 19+ colours that fits your brand, then stay in that lane every show.How do I stand out without a bigger booth than my neighbors?Height and colour discipline beat size every time. A well organized Core or Shapeshift kit on a standard 6ft table can out-perform a sprawling, disorganized setup twice its footprint.

Exhibitor Displays That Pack Down For Multiple Events A Month

If you're doing more than one event a month, your display isn't a display anymore. It's a piece of equipment. And equipment that doesn't pack down fast is equipment that quietly costs you money every single time you use it.We hear this constantly from vendors doing three, four, five shows a month: a convention one weekend, a craft fair the next, a pop-up shop in between. Nobody has time to rebuild a booth from scratch every time, and nobody wants to store a bulky wood frame in a garage that's already full of inventory. The display has to travel LIGHT or it doesn't get used, and a display that doesn't get used is dead weight.Flat-pack isn't a nice-to-have, it's the whole pointA booth that takes an hour to build and another hour to tear down eats into your setup window and your patience, in that order. Our modular panel kits snap together in under 30 minutes with no tools, and they fold flat for the drive between events. That's not a marketing line, that's the actual difference between a vendor who shows up fresh and one who's still assembling walls while doors open.The same kit that builds your booth also survives being thrown in a car boot twelve times a month. That durability question matters more than colour or style once you're doing this regularly. A backdrop that chips, bends, or won't sit flush after a few trips is a backdrop you'll be replacing by spring.Same goes for scale. Some months you need a single 6ft table setup, some months a bigger 12ft double. A modular system that scales, Core up through Shapeshift Duo, means you're not buying a second kit just because one event has more room than the last.Check the full range in our modular booth kit collection, or go straight to the one most vendors doing multiple shows a month land on, our modular artist booth display kit. If your booth can't survive being packed up in the dark after a long day and rebuilt at 7am the next morning, it's not built for your schedule. Get one that is.

The Vendor Who Never Had To Rebuy Their Display From Scratch

She started with a single half table at a small local market. Nothing fancy, just enough panel space to hang a dozen prints and stack some stickers. She grabbed a Core kit, 24 panels, set it up in under 30 minutes with no tools, and called it a day.Two years later she's running double tables at a regional convention with corner walls and tall framing behind her print bins. Same vendor. Same original panels. Not one piece of that first Core kit got thrown out.That's the part people don't believe until they see it. Because every panel and connector in the Artist Booths lineup is cross-compatible, her original 24 panels just slotted into the bigger setup when she stepped up to a Shapeshift kit. She didn't sell her old gear on a Facebook group and start over. She added to it.The show that almost broke her old setupThe turning point was a weekend convention where she got bumped to a corner booth with double the table space. Most vendors in that spot either scramble to borrow gear or set up a half-empty table and eat the loss. She placed one order from the kit lineup, picked up the extra panels she needed, and had a full corner wall standing before the venue doors opened. No redesign, no relearning how the connectors worked. Same system, just more of it.She still keeps the spare panels and connectors that shipped with her very first kit in her tote bag. Never needed most of them, but the one time a connector cracked loading out of a car in the rain, she had a replacement clipped in inside two minutes instead of running a table with a visible gap.What she'd tell you if you askedBuy the kit that fits your table today. Don't overspend trying to guess your booth in three years. The whole point of a system built to be cross-compatible is that guessing wrong barely costs you anything. You just add on when the table gets bigger.Her booth today looks nothing like it did at that first small market. Same core parts, though. That's the difference between buying gear and building a system.

The ROI Nobody Talks About: Time Saved On Setup

Everyone talks about display ROI in terms of sales. Fair enough, sales matter. But there's a second return that almost nobody puts a number on: the hours you get back on setup and teardown, show after show, year after year. That time is worth something too, and most vendors are bleeding it without realizing.Setup time is a recurring cost, not a one-offA slow setup doesn't just cost you once. It costs you every single show you do. If a fiddly wire grid setup takes you 90 minutes and a proper kit takes under 30, that's an hour back every event. Run 20 shows a year and you've just recovered 20 hours. That's an entire extra day of your life not spent wrestling with zip ties in a loading dock.Where the wasted time actually goesIt's rarely one big delay. It's death by a hundred small ones: hunting for the right clip, realizing a panel doesn't fit the new booth shape, re-tying something that came loose in transit, discovering halfway through that you're missing a piece. None of these individually feel like a big deal. Stacked across a full event season, they add up to real, measurable hours.What fast setup actually buys youTime back at load-in means you're not rushing your table styling, not skipping breakfast, not opening late while the vendor next to you already has customers browsing. A kit that goes up in under 30 minutes with no tools means you arrive, build, and you're ready. That calm start carries into the whole day. Vendors who aren't frazzled from a stressful setup sell better, plain and simple.This is also where reconfigurability pays off in time, not just money. One kit that adapts to different booth layouts means you're not improvising a new setup every time you get assigned a corner spot instead of your usual straight run. You already know how it goes together, because it's the same system every time.How to actually value thisTake your current setup time, subtract what a modular kit would realistically take, multiply by your shows per year, and put a number on your own hourly rate. Most vendors are shocked at what that adds up to over a few years. It's a real return, even though it never shows up on a sales report.Does a modular kit really set up faster than what I'm using now?If you're currently working with wire grids, folding panels, or anything that needs zip ties or tools, yes, almost always. Our modular display kit is built specifically to go from flat-packed to fully assembled in under 30 minutes with no tools required.Does setup speed change with booth size?It scales with your kit size. From the Core up through the Shapeshift Duo, the assembly logic stays the same, so bigger doesn't mean dramatically slower.Is this worth it if I only do a handful of shows a year?The time savings are smaller at low volume, sure. But the durability and no-tools setup still matter even at 4 or 5 shows a year, especially the first time you're rushed. Check the full kit lineup to find the size that matches your actual table footprint.

Fitting A Full Table Backdrop In Checked Luggage

A full table backdrop sounds like something that needs its own oversized bag. It doesn't have to. Here's how vendors are getting a complete standard 6ft table setup into a single suitcase without paying oversize fees or crossing their fingers at baggage claim. Pick a panel system, not a frame system. Rigid frames and PVC pipe backdrops don't collapse small. Flat panels do. A modular booth display kit made from frosted polypropylene folds down to fit inside the standard 56x36x23cm carry-on allowance, which means it can go in checked luggage with plenty of room to spare around it. Match the panel count to your table, not your ambition. A standard 180cm/6ft table doesn't need the biggest kit on the shelf. Core (24 panels) or Shapeshift (46) covers most single-table setups. Save Shapeshift Duo or Angled Duo (92 each) for corner booths or double spreads. Check the connector weight, not just the panel weight. ABS connectors and PLA hooks are the parts that add up if you're not paying attention. They're deliberately lightweight here, which is the difference between a backdrop that fits your bag and one that blows your checked weight limit. Build height into your packing plan. The system stacks up to 5 panels high, about 175cm, but it still folds flat regardless of how tall you build it on site. Height on the table doesn't mean bulk in the suitcase. Leave room around the kit for padding. Since the whole thing packs flat, you've got space left in a standard checked bag for clothes or soft product to double as cushioning. Don't waste that space on a second half-empty bag. Test the setup once before your trip. No tools, under 30 minutes, but you want that first build to happen at home, not in a hotel room the night before doors open. Don't assume every kit ships the same way. Confirm your kit's exact folded dimensions against your suitcase before you buy, especially if you're already tight on luggage space with product. A full backdrop in one checked bag isn't a workaround. It's just what happens when the panels are built to fold flat in the first place. Compare sizes across the full kit collection before you book your next flight-in show.

What matters more for your booth?

The shape: roofs, awnings and angles

Any-angle panels for roofs, awnings and shaped fronts

The colour: the widest colour range

The most colours to pick from and to mix

What are your planned setups going to be?

Half table (90cm / 3ft)

Sharing a table or just starting out

Full table (180cm / 6ft)

The standard table at most cons, markets & fairs

Double, corner or booth (360cm / 12ft)

Two tables, an L-shape, or a full corner stand

Free-standing booth (no table)

A floor-standing wall, no table needed

Select all that apply

How long do you plan to use it?

Just one season, trying it out

Light use, a handful of events

A few years

Most artists land here

Heavy, long-term use

Built to last, with room to grow on extra parts and spares for years

What do you display?

Small prints, cards, pins & stickers

Flat, lightweight, easy to pin

Large prints & posters

A2 and up, needs room to breathe

Large items: Apparel, bags, figures, 3D merch, home goods

Heavier, bulkier pieces that need sturdy shelf framing

Jewellery, charms & keychains

Small and light, lots of little hooks

How tall do you want it?

Keep it low so my table and wall stay visible

A clean, low backdrop that frames your work

Build tall framing for maximum impact

A towering wall that pulls eyes from across the hall

What shape do you want your booth to be?

Classic cube shelves

Straight walls and stepped shelves

Angled roofs, cut corners or a curved front

Any-angle panels set at any angle for roofs, corners and U fronts

Which colours catch your eye?

Amber Yellow

Apricot

Avocado Green

Blue Sky

Forest Green

Grape Purple

Jade Green

Lavender Purple

Lilac Purple

Mint Green

Royal Blue

Scarlet Red

Snow White

Terracotta

Watermelon Pink

Yuzu Yellow

Select all that apply

Your perfect kit and 5% off are ready, pop in your email below to reveal both.

Unlock your kit & bonus 5% discount

Pop in your email and we'll reveal your 5% off, auto-applied at your cart.

The same email is needed at checkout for your discount to apply, so please use a real one.

By entering your email you agree to receive occasional offer & product updates. Unsubscribe anytime. Protected by hCaptcha. Its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Your result

Your perfect match

Shop kit sizes and colours

build a booth that builds a crowd

Little parts. Big payoff.

Why makers love our booths.

Every detail pulls its weight.

Stand out, sell out.

Be the eye-catching brand whose cohesive look draws a crowd and gets remembered.

Grow with you.

Enough parts to range products from small table to large booth.

Shape your brand.

Triangles, rectangles, hinge panels and connectors, in colours you mix yourself, for infinite display setups.

Be memorable.

Seasonal colours keep your brand unique. Frosted finish gives your art a soft spotlight.

Range & sell more.

Self-serve more customers with parts that make the most of smaller spaces.

Strong where it counts.

An iron core holds heavy stock whilst water-resistant surfaces shrug off spills and weather.

Packs light, carries safe.

Panels weigh 150g each. The double-wall carry box protects up to 30 decorated panels every trip.

Spares for years.

Every kit packs extra parts, so when you scale up or lose a piece you can keep running your vision.

Pick a Display kit to Shapeshift your brand.

Choose a setup size and colours & explore examples of how you could use our kits.

Single Low to tall for 1 table setups

Duo Low / tall / deep for 1-2 table setupsLow / tall / deep for 1-2 table setups

V2 AngledPre-order Panels form tiered cascading awning designs.Panels form tiered cascading awning designs.

OriginalLow stockLow Multi-shape panels form cube-shaped cascading designs.Multi-shape panels form cube-shaped cascading designs.

Only available

2aMain colour Main colour

Colour 1

Swap half your square panels to a 2nd colour

Swap half your multi-shape panels to a 2nd colour

2bSecond colour Second colour Free

Swap half your square panels to a 2nd colour

Swap half your multi-shape panels to a 2nd colour

Colour 2 Free

4. Bundle & save add-ons

Display more with add-on packs.

Shapeshift Kit 46 Multi-Shape Panel and Accessory Kit Add-on

$575.10

Grape Purple Frosted

Square Panel [24 Pack] (35cm / 13.8in) Add-on

$405.00

Scarlet Red Frosted

Self Serve Hook with wire grid T clip 8cm [10 pack] Add-on

$36.00

Self serve display Grid & Intersection Hook expansion pack [12/24 Mixed pack] Add-on

$90.00

Multi Connector Expansion Pack - White - Bundle & Save [16/32 mixed pack] Add-on

$108.00

Square Wire Grid Expansion Pack - 35cm x 35cm/13.7"x13.7" Add-on

$54.00

Mini Rectangle Panels [5-Pack] (17cm x 35cm/6.69in x 13.78in) Add-on

$90.00

Amber Yellow Frosted

Foot Connector Expansion Pack [4 Pcs] Add-on

$53.10

Mixed Single & Double Wire Shelf Clip [9 pack] Add-on

$40.50

Booth Wheel & Wheel Connector - white - [4 pack] Add-on

$54.00

Corner Connector Expansion Pack [8 pack] Add-on

$54.00

Edge Connector [8 pack] Add-on

$54.00

Single Shelf Wire Clip White [5 pack] Add-on

$31.50

Double shelf wire clip white [4 pack] Add-on

$27.00

Self serve display Grid & Fold Hook expansion pack [12/24 Mixed pack] Add-on

$99.00

Foldable Self Serve Hook (with wire clip) - [20 pack] Add-on

$72.00

White

Foldable Self Serve Hooks (with adhesive sheet) [20 pack] Add-on

$45.00

White

Metal mallet (with dual rubber/soft tap sides) [1 pc] Add-on

$36.00

Panel Clamp Black 3cm Mouth [4 pcs] Add-on

$36.00

Foldable Croc Hooks (adhesive) - 10-pack

$50.00

Black

Foldable Croc Hook (clip) - 10-pack

$80.00

Black

Your bundle

Free express shipping deal

Orders over $300 AUD

dhm

Free Exp. Shipping (2-7 bus.days) d h m

Selection


Payment	/payment 4 payments, every 2 weeks	/payment 4 payments, every 2 weeks
Interest	0% Interest	0% Interest
Late Fees	Initial $10 fee, plus $7 if unpaid after 7 days (capped at 25% of order or $68).	No late fees apply.
Eligibility	Subject to approval and spend limits.	Eligible for purchases $30 to $2,000 AUD.
Total*

🌐 Globally express tracked🇦🇺 Designed in Oz★ Rated 4.9/5 by sellers at markets & cons

Swing into new degrees of freedom.

Meet the any-angle panel. A panel the world has never seen before. It swings both ways, it is the missing piece of the line-up, and it unlocks infinitely more designs.