AWS re:Play 2021

Client: Amazon Web Services
Service: Art Direction, Branding, Spatial Design, Event Production
Year: 2021

re:Play 2021:
There's no getting around talking about the pandemic these days. Live events were hit hard by it in 2020 and so for 2021 AWS aimed to come back harder with re:Invent and the after party re:Play, which had over 8,000 attendees.

On its face, a party seems like a simple thing to do but it requires a fully multidisciplinary effort.

Using everything from spatial design to graphic design to lighting design to media design to production design and more, we employ virtually every creative design discipline towards the goal of bringing the best party possible to our attendees.

The look and feel of re:Play is created by "remixing" the brand elements of re:Invent to give them new purpose to surprise attendees who had been at re:Invent all week.

To keep the party alive, we had one megastructure dedicated to music and one dedicated to activities that incorporated 181 chain motors, 3,900 ft of truss, and 29,000 lbs of ballast to support 40+ tons of lighting, audio, and 2600 sq ft of video screens.

Tuff Ghost, TokiMonsta, and ZEDD performed throughout the night.

181 chain motors,
3,900ft of truss,
29,000 lbs of lighting,
and 2,600 sq ft of video screens

On top of all the music, food and drinks, we had a number of physical activities, listed below.

Office Chair Grand Prix, a high intensity 60' relay race with human powered office chairs.

Meltdown, an inflatable competition with motorized spinning arms that knocked people off of platforms in front of an uproarious audience.

Button Mash 3.0, a 25' tall video game we custom designed and produced for the event

Silent Disco, a funky retreat and loungey hideaway spot for those who felt the need to get away from the intensity of the games and music.

Dodgeball! This is a re:Play classic and this year we added some theatrics tol it with real-time light programming and fog.

Retro Arcade, a collection of all the best classic games arranged to feel like a lounge.

Sponsor Village was an amalgamation of small activities and games like ping pong and skeeball with a 360 degree bar in the middle.