Category: Maya Kopytman

Read the full article here.

We are very pleased to announce two new Partners of the firm: Maya Kopytman and Amy Siegel.

Maya Kopytman (left) has more than two decades of design experience in interface design for websites, software, and location-based experiences. Amy Siegel (right) brings over two decades of experience to the design of signage and wayfinding, environmental and print graphics. Read more…

C&G Partners has created a new brand identity, website and office display installations for Kaplan Thaler Group, the ad agency responsible for Aflac, Swiffer, and Wendy’s. Stay tuned for more – in the meantime, check out the sweet way KTG decided to celebrate their new brand.

Take another sneak peek of our work for KTG on their website and Facebook.

Associate Partner Maya Kopytman will speak tonight, Friday, at 6:30 at the Apple Store Soho (New York City) about her Caminos Del Inka project, an interactive animated performance that premiered with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

For more information on the event tonight, click here. See you there!

The firm’s Voices of Liberty installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage has just won a MUSE award, the museum technology award from the American Association of Museums (AAM).

Read more…

Associate Partner Maya Kopytman and her team recently launched a redesigned website for Portico, a nonprofit that provides digital preservation services to libraries and publishers within the educational community. The website needed to more clearly communicate their offerings and expertise in the field of digital preservation, while positioning themselves as the leading and the most trusted service among their competitors.

Read more…

Recently launched: the firm’s design for the AIGA Member Gallery. This interactive project, led by Associate Partner Maya Kopytman, lets AIGA members organize and exhibit their design portfolio on an online platform, connect and collaborate on projects, and comment on the design work of fellow members.

Read more…

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.

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.

Read more…

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.

OppenheimerFunds recently won a Best Advisor Multi-Media Ad Campaign 2009 Star Award for “Art of the Client Review.” C&G Partners executed a portion of the ad campaign online, creating an interactive experience that provides a clear introduction and overview of the program that utilizes bold graphics, instilling a sense of confidence needed during this turbulent economic time.

The STAR Awards is the premiere fund industry competition, now in its 13th year, and is presented annually by the Mutual Fund Education Alliance, a national mutual fund industry trade association.

Read the award announcement here and a project synopsis here. See the ad campaign in action here.

The Web Marketing Association has honored two of the firm’s websites, both winning for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development. The Kress Foundation website won specifically for Non-Profit Standard of Excellence, and O’Shaughnessy Asset Management website won for Financial Services Standard of Excellence.

View the award for Kress here and read a description of the project here. View the award for O’Shaughnessy here and read a project description 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.

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.”

Yesterday saw the launch of “Art of the Client Review”, an interactive experience designed by C&G Partners for OppenheimerFunds, one of the largest investment management companies in the US. The firm created the “Art of the Client Review” site to help financial advisors work more effectively with their clients in the current downturn.

Read more…

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.