Good Sports

Event Design Magazine: When production designer Anton Goss was kicking around ideas for the huge stage design for the broadcast of China Central Television’s Sports Personality of the Year Awards, one concept kept popping up—go huge. And huge it was. The enormous circular stage featured 50-foot-tall LED walls, video columns and an elaborate lighting rig to celebrate China’s greatest athletes. The show is a huge deal in China (akin to the Oscars broadcast here in the U.S.), so Goss decided to go over-the-top with his design and see what he could get away with. The Olympic arena that housed the production afforded Goss and his team to go big in every way.