Take a cue for a successful night from one of the biggest televised award shows. When we polled planners after last year's National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' 54th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, we found their favorite components of the event was the stage set. Javier Velarde said the best part was: “The set design. It was clean, modern, high-tech, and worthy of 'music’s biggest night.' Throughout the night it changed colors, but never more than one color at a time, which goes to prove less is more. I also liked the lighting. Lighting designer Bob Dickinson is in a class of his own—is there anything he doesn’t do? The color palette. They used ‘black and gold’ throughout the night, the Grammy colors, which looked classy and sophisticated. Great branding and the golden amber lighting gave it warmth. There was great use of technology too. LED set, LED lighting, LED screens, LED stages, LED backdrops."