Poster Display Monolith

As technical program chair for IEEE SoutheastCon 2014, I needed to decide how the short paper posters would be displayed. I wanted something cheap, fast to set-up, and impressive... something that also would give a better traffic flow pattern than the usual line-of-posters arrangement. Thus, I created these 8-foot-tall, 4-foot-wide, freestanding, triangular-footprint, monoliths.

Each monolith consists of three 4'x8' sheets of 1/2" thick black sound insulation board (total less than $30) held together by nine 3D-printed clips. A monolith can be assembled or disassembled in a few minutes without using any tools. You mount your posters or other materials on the textured black board surface using standard push pins.