Office Posters for a Business Bay Workspace: Sizes and Finishes

A wall by wall plan for office posters in a Business Bay tower: what to hang in reception, meeting rooms and open plan, in which size and finish, at what cost.

A 250 square metre office in a Business Bay tower comes with about 40 linear metres of wall that a landlord will not let you paint and a view that makes everything indoors look slightly unfinished. Office posters are the quickest fix for both. They go up without drilling into glass partitions, they come down when the lease ends, and a set of six costs less than one piece of furniture. This is the wall by wall plan we hand to clients fitting out a new floor in Dubai, with sizes, finishes and a budget for each room.

Walk the floor before choosing posters to make

Start with a floor plan and a tape, not a mood board. Office posters work when each one has a job, so give every wall a job before you give it an image. Mark every wall a visitor sees from the lift lobby to the meeting room, then every wall your own team faces for eight hours. The first group carries the brand. The second group carries the culture. Towers here typically give you a reception wall of 3 to 4 metres, two or three meeting rooms with one solid wall each, an open plan area with pillars and a breakout corner. That is usually six to nine positions for office posters, and the order below is the order we suggest printing them in.

Reception: the office posters visitors judge first

Visitors form their view of the company in the fifteen seconds between the lift and the front desk, and office posters in reception do more of that work than the furniture. The reception wall needs a single large piece, not a cluster. Two directions work. A brand statement in your typeface on a solid colour field, printed at A0 or larger and framed. Or a photographic piece with local identity, often the Dubai skyline from the Business Bay canal side, in black and white so it does not fight the logo.

Print this one on heavy matte paper at 200 gsm or on canvas, mounted on board and framed with a 5 cm mount. Pair it with raised reception signage for the company name, so the poster carries mood and the sign carries identity. Budget AED 650 to 1,400 framed for an A0 piece, and have a second file ready for the same frame so the wall can change with the season.

Meeting room office posters: values on the wall the client faces

Each meeting room has one wall that sits behind the host and in front of the client, and office posters there get read during every pause in the conversation. That is where the vision, mission and values go, as a clean typographic poster in brand colours. Keep it to under 40 words. Six values in a vertical list at A1 reads from the far end of a four metre room; a paragraph does not.

For the wall the host faces, a services or product poster does quiet selling during the meeting. A single image of the product or project with one line of copy works better than a grid of twelve. Office posters in meeting rooms should be framed under acrylic rather than glass, which towers prefer for safety and which does not reflect the ceiling lights in video calls. Budget AED 280 to 520 per A1 framed poster.

Open plan: short, large and few

Motivational office posters divide opinion, and the ones that fail are the ones with a stock photo and a sentence. The ones that work are short, typographic, in the brand palette and hung at the end of a sight line so people see them when they look up from a screen. Three to five words. Mounted on 5 mm foam board without a frame they look intentional and cost a third of a framed print. Rotate them quarterly; a message everyone has read for a year is wallpaper.

Pillars in open plan areas are wasted in most offices, and they are the easiest posters to make once the artwork for the walls exists. A tall narrow print, 50 by 150 cm, wrapped on one face of each pillar turns the obstacle into a brand surface. For a full wall, printed wall graphics on removable vinyl give the same effect edge to edge and peel off cleanly at the end of the lease.

Breakout and corridors

The breakout area is where office posters can be less formal. Photography of the team, the city or the projects, printed as a set of three A2 pieces in matching frames, makes the space feel owned. Corridors suit a timeline of the company or a run of product photography at A3, hung as a sequence at 150 cm centre height. Removable wall stickers with a single line of copy work above coffee machines and printer stations where a frame would be knocked.

Sizes and finishes for office posters

The table below is our standard specification for each position. Paper weights are what we print on in Ajman; a lighter sheet curls in air conditioning within weeks.

Position	Size	Material	Mounting	Framed price range
Reception wall	A0 or 100 x 140 cm	200 gsm matte or canvas	Board mounted, framed, 5 cm mount	AED 650 to 1,400
Meeting room	A1	200 gsm matte	Framed under acrylic	AED 280 to 520
Open plan motivational	A1 or A0	170 gsm satin	5 mm foam board, no frame	AED 120 to 260
Pillar wrap	50 x 150 cm	Removable vinyl	Applied direct	AED 180 to 320
Breakout set	3 x A2	200 gsm matte	Matching slim frames	AED 450 to 780 per set
Corridor sequence	A3	200 gsm matte	Slim frames	AED 90 to 160 each

Matte beats gloss in almost every office. Tower floors are glass on at least one side, and a gloss print turns into a mirror by 3pm. Satin is a fair compromise for photographic pieces, and any poster printing supplier should offer both without a price difference. For the one statement piece, canvas prints give a texture that paper cannot. Brushed metal wall art is the other option when the reception has a lot of glass and steel already.

Hanging rules in Business Bay towers

Most towers in Business Bay forbid drilling into glass partitions and demand that nothing is fixed to fire rated doors. Office posters in frames count as fixtures in some building rules, so ask. Gypsum walls take standard picture hooks. Concrete core walls need a drill and anchor, so check with facilities before the installer arrives. Adhesive hanging strips rated for 5 kg hold an A1 framed poster under acrylic; they do not hold a glass framed A0, so that piece needs a hook. Hang the centre of each of your office posters at 150 to 155 cm from the floor, lower than instinct suggests, because most people view them seated.

If your fit out contractor is still on site, give them the poster positions and sizes so the electrician can add a picture light above the reception piece. It costs little during fit out and a lot afterwards.

Ordering and poster printing from Branding Blitz

Send a floor plan or photos of each wall with rough dimensions over WhatsApp, along with your brand file and any photography. We lay out each poster to size, send proofs, and print at our Ajman facility on 170 to 200 gsm stock with framing and board mounting done in house. Poster printing for a six to nine piece set of office posters takes 4 to 6 working days, and we deliver and hang across Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman and Abu Dhabi, with delivery to all seven emirates. Our indoor posters page covers sizes and paper options. For frames, including the slim black and oak profiles most offices choose, see photo frames. When the posters to make list grows into a whole floor, we add a branded wall calendar for the breakout area. Matching desk name plates finish the set, so every surface in the office speaks in the same typeface.

Related resources: See our flyers & leaflets, marketing materials and decals & vinyl pages for specifications, quantity pricing and design options across the UAE.