Live stage graphic: real-time artist lower-third for The Cove stage, built to update between sets without breaking the broadcast.
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Contact me for access →Ongoing design support for UMF and its underground sub-brand Resistance, owning the full live-streaming broadcast graphics system for Ultra Miami, from artist lower-thirds to end cards, delivered to NOMOBO for global live production.
Live stage graphic: real-time artist lower-third for The Cove stage, built to update between sets without breaking the broadcast.
Ultra Music Festival livestreams its main stages worldwide under Ultra Live, reaching an audience far bigger than the crowd on-site in Miami. That broadcast needs its own visual language, one that works across stage idents, technical breaks, and hundreds of individual artist announcements, all while staying instantly recognizable as Ultra. Alongside the main UMF brand sits Resistance, the festival's underground and techno stage, which needed to feel connected to Ultra without ever competing with it visually.
A live broadcast never gets a second take. Every graphic, from a stage transition to a technical difficulties screen, has to hold up in real time, be legible at a glance, and never look like a placeholder. The challenge was designing a full set of these moments that worked for both UMF's main stages and Resistance's separate identity, and handing off files that NOMOBO's production team could drop straight into the live stream.
This isn't a project with a single deadline, it's ongoing design support that follows Ultra's live calendar: every stage, every artist lineup change, every new edition needs its own set of assets. The process runs from stage and brand direction down to individual artist cards, always checked against how they'll actually look composited over live camera footage, not just as flat files.
Every broadcast interruption still had to read as on-brand: the same "stay tuned" moment, styled differently for UMF's main stages and for Resistance's Megastructure.
The full arc of a stream: a "next artist" holding card between sets, and the end card that closes out the broadcast.
The broadcast graphics extend into social promo posts announcing each artist's set time and stage, driving viewers to watch live. Same visual language, same brand rules, just resized and re-composed for Instagram.
Set-time announcement posts for Resistance (Adam Beyer, Megastructure) and UMF's Worldwide stage (Dimension).
An ongoing, living graphics system that covers every state a live broadcast can be in, on-brand for both UMF and Resistance, and ready for NOMOBO to drop straight into production for each new edition of the festival.