BBC Sports Personality of the Year, SP60

BBC Sports Personality of the Year, SP60

Vagabond became the first team to win successive design pitches on this prestigious event, returning to design the 60th anniversary edition of BBC Sports Personality of the Year after our earlier work on the show.

For this milestone edition, we designed a set built to honour the show's history while still feeling entirely of the moment. A trio of vintage-style camera trophies takes pride of place on a glass plinth, a nod to six decades of broadcasting sat proudly at the heart of the design, with the SP60 mark glowing in signature red and white just beneath them.

The set itself moves through a rich, layered palette of purple and amber, sculpted metallic panels curving like waves across the stage catch and bounce the light, while a glowing staircase, its illuminated treads picked out in warm amber, sweeps guests up through the space. Vast LED walls wrap the whole set in texture and colour, giving the design real depth without ever losing the clean, sculptural lines running through it.

It's a set built to mark a milestone properly, celebrating 60 years of the show's history while giving it a look sleek and contemporary enough for the decades still to come.