Voices of Liberty, the firm’s recent exhibit and interactive project for the Museum of Jewish Heritage was just used today for a purpose for which it was certainly not originally designed, but which we happily support. A museum visitor proposed by bringing his girlfriend to the exhibit and asking her to read a poem he had posted in advance on the Voices of Liberty website we designed. The website is integrated with the exhibit and handles the user-contributed content part of the experience.
And in case you were wondering, she said yes. Good thing the design calls for two seats. Read about our MJH project here. And: congratulations!
The website BroadwayWorld recently named the firm’s interactive exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan as one of the site’s New York City’s Hot Topics. Read the full write up here, all Fresh posts on the project here, and find out more about the Voices of Liberty exhibit and interactives.
The firm’s recent exhibit work for El Museo del Barrio is featured in the December issue of GDUSA. Read the article, “Bi-Lingual Exhibition Design,” here. Read past Fresh posts about the El Museo project here.
Flavorwire picked up on the firm’s recent exhibit, “Voices of Liberty,” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The article includes four points about “why it’s cool” as well as a preview audio portion from the exhibit. Read Flavorwire’s full article and listen to the excerpt here. Read all Fresh posts about Voices of Liberty and MJH here.
Jocelyn Gonzales from Feet in Two Worlds, a project of the New School in NYC, has created a short video piece on the firm’s recent Voices of Liberty exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The piece captures many of the moving voices in the exhibit experience. Museum Deputy Director Ivy Barsky, firm partner Jonathan Alger and Phillip Tiongson from technology collaborator Potion Design also lend their thoughts.
Read the accompanying article here. Read past posts about the Voices of Liberty exhibit here.
The firm’s Voices of Liberty project appeared today in eOculus, the newsletter of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA/NY) today. The write-up includes a nod to one of the voices in the exhibit, architect Daniel Libeskind:
The recently opened 2,200-square-foot Keeping History Center is the first permanent addition to the Museum of Jewish Heritage since the Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates-designed Robert M. Morgenthau Wing opened in 2003. Designed by the interdisciplinary design firm C&G Partners, and Potion, a design and technology firm, the center is located at the end of a special exhibition hall that contains the Garden of Stones Timekeeper, a time-lapse showcase of Andy Goldsworthy’s sculptural installation. With panoramic views of New York Harbor, modular Plyboo chevron-shaped benches echo the room’s position in relation to the Statue of Liberty. They are located in circular listening stations that play “Voices of Liberty,” a soundscape of immigrant voices describing arriving in America for the first time accessed via an iPod Touch. One of the voices is Daniel Libeskind, AIA, who arrived in New York in 1959.
C&G Partners did concept, exhibit, graphic and web design for the project. Collaborators Potion did concept and technology design and implementation. See the article in the online newsletter here.
C&G Partners, with design and technology collaborators Potion, have designed a new visitor experience named “Voices of Liberty” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in a gallery overlooking the Hudson River.
The firm’s newest exhibit project, “Voices of Liberty,” designed in collaboration with Potion, appeared in both Fast Company and in Time Out New York. The exhibit, which is installed in the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s “Keeping History Center,” focuses on the stories of immigrants to the United States, and features audio testimonials throughout the space. Fast Company quotes C&G Partners’ Jonathan Alger on the use of nontraditional exhibit items: “museums and libraries don’t just collect three dimensional things,” hence the utilization of new technologies, such as hand-held devices that respond to the visitor’s location in the space, to convey the story of the exhibit.
Time Out New York succinctly summarizes why the exhibit is worth visiting, filed under their “Why should I care?” line: “The center offers an experience that goes beyond staring at artifacts.”
The exhibit opens to the public on Friday, November 6th. Read more about it on the Museum’s website here.
Read the Fast Company article and listen to a sample testimonial here and read Time Out New York’s write up here.
The firm’s recent exhibit design work for El Museo del Barrio in New York City appeared online in Contract Magazine today. Senior designer Mariano Desmaras, from the article: “As the exhibit designers, our challenge was the strike a balance between the works of art, many of which are masterpieces, and the story of the people and the historical context behind them.”
Read the article in full here. Read recent Fresh posts about El Museo here.
The firm’s El Museo del Barrio exhibit design project is featured in the “Latino Art in the City” slide show appearing today on the Times’ website. The online interactive, part of an article reviewing the re-opened museum, opens with a shot capturing the introductory panels for the exhibits, “Voces y Visiones” and “Nexus New York.”
View the slide show here and read the related article reviewing the Museum’s inaugural exhibition here.
This Saturday, October 17 marks the opening of a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Latino Center in Washington, DC. The exhibit, titled “Panamanian Passages,” is a bilingual installation focusing on pivotal points in Panamanian history. The exhibit documents the isthmus’ 3 million-year-old origins to the social-political developments going on today.
New York’s leading Latino cultural institution, El Museo del Barrio, which reopens to the public this Saturday, is featured today in the NY Daily News. The write-up includes images from the museum’s main exhibits, which were all designed by C&G Partners: “Voces y Visiones” and “Nexus New York.”
El Museo was also the venue for a debate between the New York City mayoral candidates last night. Read the full Daily News article online here. See a recent Fresh post about the week’s opening events here.
El Museo del Barrio New York reopens this week with all-new primary exhibits, “Voces y Visiones” and “Nexus New York,” designed by C&G Partners. Opening events this week include a press preview on Wednesday, a members reception on Thursday from 8 to 10, and the public opening all day Saturday. The public opening will include a ribbon cutting ceremony at 11 followed by a festive open house until 9 PM in the evening. See more on the public opening here. More project images and information to come.
Partner Jonathan Alger will be participating in an evening sponsored by AIGA/NY in their member series “My Dog and Pony II.” Designers from four firms will be revisiting one pitch they made in the past to a potential client, then revealing what happened afterwards. Jonathan will talk about the initial presentation done for the recently completed Yankee Stadium project.
The event will take place on Monday, September 28th from 7 – 8:30 PM at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. See all the details and register here.
C&G Partners and teammates Small Design Firm and Potion have created a new interactive experience for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “From Memory to Action” focuses on the genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, and asks visitors to take action right inside the exhibit.
The exhibit has several distinct parts. The C&G Partners team collaborated on the overall concept and gallery architecture, then designed the woven graphic wall (which references the three genocides in words and images, and runs along the perimeter of the gallery space), the graphics throughout the project, and all constructed elements, structures and surfaces. Read more…
The current issue of SEGDdesign, the magazine of SEGD, is a special 25th issue that looks back on the success of the magazine, first launched 7 years ago. Since its inception, the magazine always has showcased the winners of the annual SEGD Design Awards; in the current issue, all those winners appear again in print. C&G Partners is honored that 7 projects led by the people of the firm have won over those past 7 years. Here is a recap.
