prologue

The set, which wraps around Radio City Music Hall and provides a red-carpet area along with a platform for interviews, centers around this year's VMA logo. 'The scaffolding and all the details in the letters in the logo were really inspiring,' explained designer Kevin Largent, who conceived the set. 'We wanted to re-create the feeling of the logo, because it's a great logo.'”

MTV has found a good thing, and they’re sticking to it. For the third year in a row, they’ve tapped LA-based Prologue to create the graphics package for their colossal Video Music Awards show. Directed by Ilya Abulhanov, the condensed sans-serif type and annotated landscapes of the VMA 2009 package build upon the look Ilya established for the OFFF 2009 titles... Gigantic telescoping streetlights and strings of gondolas adorn the familiar skyline of New York City, creating a panoply of mechanical transformations that seem to be a literalization of Rem Koolhaus’ vision of a “delirious New York.” Ilya’s split-screen moments create dizzying multiplications of the city, piling density upon density.”