Award-Show Backdrop

Award-Show Backdrop — made to your size in a choice of 2 fabrics, from 250gsm to 280gsm.

A media wall exists to put a logo behind a face in a photograph. That single purpose dictates everything: a dead-flat surface, no reflection, no light bleed, and a repeat pattern scaled so a readable logo lands in frame however the subject stands.

This product is offered across more than one fabric because the right answer depends on where the panel is going and how long it needs to last. The table below sets every option side by side on the specifications that actually decide the choice — weight, opacity, finish and weather behaviour — so you can compare them directly rather than opening a page for each one.

Best for

• Press walls and step-and-repeats
• Interview and broadcast backdrops
• Award-show backdrops
• Sponsor and partner walls
• Curved and shaped media walls

Fabric options compared

Which fabric should you choose?

• 280gsm FR Blockout (B1) — An opaque core between two faces — zero light bleed, zero show-through, media-wall flat.
• 250gsm Blockout — An opaque core between two faces — zero light bleed, zero show-through, media-wall flat.

Key advantages

• One product, 2 fabric specifications — compare and choose without leaving the page
• Opaque core stops light bleed completely — critical under event lighting and camera flash
• No show-through, so each face can carry entirely different artwork
• Hangs flat and dead-still indoors, which is what step-and-repeat photography needs
• Dense construction holds deep blacks without the backlighting wash you get on thin cloth

Choosing the right specification

Scale the repeat to the crop, not to the wall. A logo grid that looks balanced across the full panel often produces a photograph with two half-logos and nothing legible. Work out the tightest crop the photographers will actually shoot — usually head and shoulders — and make sure at least one complete logo falls inside it. And use a blockout: flash will find any light passing through.

How ordering works

• Send your artwork — Upload print-ready artwork at any stage — we check scale, resolution and bleed before anything goes to press and come back to you if something needs adjusting.
• Made to your size — Every panel is cut and finished to your dimensions. Tell us the finished size you need and how it is being fixed, and we will allow for hems and fixings correctly.
• Printed by dye-sublimation — Colour is transferred into the polyester fibre under heat, so the image becomes part of the cloth rather than a layer sitting on top of it.
• Finished and shipped — Hems, eyelets, pole pockets, silicone edge and other finishing are applied before your order is folded, boxed and dispatched worldwide.

Related specifications

Closely related products in this range include Press Wall / Step-and-Repeat, Interview Wall, Curved Sponsor Wall. They share this fabric and finish, so the choice comes down to format and size.

Best suited to

Indoor work where light control is the whole point — press walls, media and sponsor walls, stage backdrops, room dividers and hanging panels.

Also in this range

For flags and panels that should move in the air, our light knit range is the partner product; for illuminated display, see our backlit range.

Not sure which fabric is right? Order a free swatch pack and see the weight, texture and finish in your own hands before you commit to a full run.