Project

IBM X GRAMMYs Sports & Entertainment Partnership

Description

You see Music’s Biggest Night. We see data. The Recording Academy is using the AI of watsonx to transform the digital experience for members and music fans. Our project seamlessly integrates data and partnership, transforming spreadsheets into inspiring visuals that captivate and engage. It strikes a balance between the logical precision of data and the human connection and tangible tactility inherent in IBM’s partnership with the GRAMMYs.

Agency

BUCK

Client

IBM

Year

2023

Project

IBM X GRAMMYs Sports & Entertainment Partnership

Description

You see Music’s Biggest Night. We see data. The Recording Academy is using the AI of watsonx to transform the digital experience for members and music fans. Our project seamlessly integrates data and partnership, transforming spreadsheets into inspiring visuals that captivate and engage. It strikes a balance between the logical precision of data and the human connection and tangible tactility inherent in IBM’s partnership with the GRAMMYs.

Agency

BUCK

Client

IBM

Year

2023

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You see Music’s Biggest Night. We see data.

Drawing inspiration from the GRAMMYs main stage, the project infuses the essence of performance, drama, glamor, and excitement into data. Through meticulously choreographed light, pattern, and motion inspired by sound, the visuals evoke the feeling of graphic representations of unheard music when viewed from a distance, and richly patterned data when seen up close. This innovative approach transforms data into an immersive visual experience, highlighting the synergy between logic and creativity.

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Structure

What if... The stage — a set, really — is derived from a 2x Grid that’s foundational to IBM’s design language? 8 panels that can move forwards and backwards in space, atop a subtly reflective stage surface? And the lighting arrays — made up of glassy, physical bulb — are fed concentric circle patterns and relationships.

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Credits

Executive Creative Director
Ben Langsfeld
Executive Producer
Kitty Dillard
Group creative director
Jon Gorman
Creative Director
Joyce N. Ho
Producer
Alexi Yeldezian
Production Coordinator
Jacklyn Reid Hemmings
Art Director
Guillermo Zapiola
Strategist
Tina Surelia
3D Leads
Taylor James, Will Burkart
3D Design
Alex Kiesling
Duncan DeMichiel
Hannah Sun
Jesseter Wang
Michael Russo
Nachei Sanchez
Simon Ronnerdang
Taylor James
Victoria Kociman
Will Burkart
3D Animation & Lighting
Duncan DeMichiel
Guillermo Zapiola
Hannah Sun
Jacky Jackson
Jesseter Wang
Michael Russo
Taylor James
Will Burkart

Credits

Executive Creative Director
Ben Langsfeld
Executive Producer
Kitty Dillard
Group creative director
Jon Gorman
Creative Director
Joyce N. Ho
Producer
Alexi Yeldezian
Production Coordinator
Jacklyn Reid Hemmings
Art Director
Guillermo Zapiola
Strategist
Tina Surelia
3D Leads
Taylor James, Will Burkart
3D Design
Alex Kiesling
Duncan DeMichiel
Hannah Sun
Jesseter Wang
Michael Russo
Nachei Sanchez
Simon Ronnerdang
Taylor James
Victoria Kociman
Will Burkart
3D Animation & Lighting
Duncan DeMichiel
Guillermo Zapiola
Hannah Sun
Jacky Jackson
Jesseter Wang
Michael Russo
Taylor James
Will Burkart