A judging panel of entertainment professionals shortlisted Brian J. Stonestreet's design for The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for the Awards Show Production/Scenic Design Award in the Live for Broadcast category in Live Design's 2020 Design Achievement Awards. Vote for the most outstanding projects now!
Brian J. Stonestreet's 2020 Grammys production design made a bold, architectural statement. The upstage wall of the set featured an uninterrupted 14'-tall ground-supported LED screen with a series of video tile ribbons above. The stage was outfitted with Martin Professional VDO Fatron 20 LED video blades along with VDO Sceptron 20 units.
"All music award shows have their challenges for production designers; at the time of your design concept and execution of the design, you have no idea what the music performances will be. Now take the Grammy Awards, which tries to do over 20 different acts in one arena, and you start to appreciate the challenges facing the production designer. Three separate performance areas and an award acceptance position which must be the center focal point, these were the accomplishments of this production design. Not because they carved these places into one end of an area but because it was so cohesive that the home audience always understood the geography. This is the true challenge of the show and the challenge was met." — Bob Barnhart, lighting designer and judge for the Design Achievement Awards
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