Daft Punk 2014 Grammy's Stage Design

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Our team from Optimist Design embarked on this stage set design for Daft Punks 2014 Grammy's performance, working closely with the band and Daft Arts' Cedric Hervet, Paul Hahn and Warren Fu on various design mock-ups, testing and improving them along the way. The recording session-inspired set design paid homage to the collaborative realization of "Random Access Memory," and Henson Studios in Hollywood, where the album sessions primarily took place.

According to Schaedler, the idea was to create a dramatically immersive ‘70s-inspired music studio: "The design was inspired by the architecture of John Lautner, mixing in some retro sci-fi features with the mixing room motherboard. The result is a timeless design in the pop music era."

The set was created with two main incarnations in mind. The first was the actual studio backdrop that kicked off the performance. The second switched from traditional lighting to a graphic LED mode where the set was abstracted into an outline of lights. All of the LED strands were thoroughly integrated into the seams of the design. A custom-designed futuristic-looking control booth served as the climax of the live performance, where Daft Punk mixed and altered the sound on a golden mixing console.