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.
Mention of the firm’s upcoming project for the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, “Voices of Liberty”, appeared today in artdaily.org.
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.
The Jefferson Library at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC:
The Museum of American Finance, with all core exhibits, interactives, and brand identity designed by C&G Partners, was named one of New York’s “Not Boring Museums,” and one of the “city’s best venues” in the latest issue of Time Out New York. Kind words: “must-see,” “often surprising,” and “interactive exhibits here are top-notch.”
The Museum of American Finance opened in the tumultuous months of 2008, with all-new exhibits and a brand identity by C&G Partners. The firm also created the interactive installations in the Museum, but until now, we’ve not released the short videos we made about two of them. The goal of the Museum is to increase financial literacy, a goal as pressing now as it was then.
This month saw the release of the summary of The Society of Environmental Graphic Design‘s (SEGD’s) fifth annual symposium in exhibition and environment design in Cranbrook, Michigan in August 2008. In it, partner Jonathan Alger‘s talk on museumless exhibits is featured. From the article: “Untethered from their traditional settings, [museumless exhibits] can rejuvenate zoos and aquaria, corporate offices, gardens and nature centers, libraries and other facilities and engage and delight donors.” Download the full article as a PDF here.
The article page by page:
Yesterday, partner Jonathan Alger participated in a panel discussion at the final senior review of the undergraduate Design + Management department at Parsons The New School for Design. Chaired by the recently-appointed Dean of Parsons, Joel Towers, the panel discussion on the future of the profession and the department also included Businessweek innovation writer Bruce Nussbaum, New School General Counsel Roy Moskowitz, and Parsons alumna Ashley Melisse Abess from fashion house Chris Benz. Jonathan has also been an adjunct faculty member at Parsons in the past. Congratulations to the new graduates, parents, friends, and faculty.
The exhibit “OIL! Whales, Wells … What’s Next?”, originally designed by the firm to be installed for one summer at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, has just been reinstalled for a second season. Curated by our favorite East End museum director, Zach Studenroth, the exhibit traces the epic history of US energy addiction, from the days of whaling for lamp oil to the concerns of the present. See the New York Times article on last year’s opening here.
The interactive table at the Star-Spangled Banner exhibit has won a 2009 MUSE Award from the American Association of Museums, who called the installation “breathtaking.” The MUSE Award competition recognizes excellence in media produced by or for museums. Based on an original concept by our SSB design team, and with final design and production by Potion, the interactive table allows visitors a hands-on experience of one of the nation’s greatest treasures.
C&G Partners has created a traveling exhibit about founding father John Adams, the second president of the United States. Organized and funded by the Boston Public Library, the American Library Association (ALA), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the project is based on a larger exhibit at the Boston Public Library also originally designed by the firm. The exhibit will travel to twenty libraries around the US for the next three years.
At the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums “Creating Exhibitions” annual symposium on Monday, Partner Jonathan Alger will host a panel discussion called “Museumless.” The session will explore the expansion of museum-type exhibits beyond the traditional walls of the museum to surprising new venues, with unexpected benefits. The sessions on Monday will be held at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey. Find out more about the event here. See previous museumless-related events here.
The Star-Spangled Banner project is currently the cover project for goSmithsonian, the free guidebook given to all visitors to all Smithsonian museums in Washington DC. Current issue (Feb-June 2009) available DC-wide, or see it online here.
The world tour continues. The bookmark designed by Ema Frigerio and the Adams team for the John Adams Unbound exhibit travels onwards at the fan site “Where in the World is John Adams?”. Latest stops: bumping into Al Sharpton and touring the Jefferson Library at Library of Congress, which is coincidentally another project of lead partner Jonathan Alger. Past post here.
The Wall Street Journal today published a review of the renovations to the National Museum of American History. The review is mixed at best. However, on the Star-Spangled Banner exhibit, the one part of the museum done by C&G Partners, writer Judith H. Dobrzynski is enthusiastically positive:
As you walk up a darkened, gently sloped ramp, the muffled sounds of Washington burning and of rockets bursting in air reverberate in the background. Brief signs, supplemented with artifacts like a charred piece of the White House, introduce the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain, and tell what was happening in nearby Baltimore on a September night in 1814. During that battle, Francis Scott Key looked out in the early hours, saw the 15-stripe American flag flying over Fort McHenry, and began writing the lyrics that became our national anthem.
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