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.
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.
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.
Earlier this month, Associate Partner Maya Kopytman participated in the panel discussion, “Designers Without Borders,” at the New York Institute of Technology. Along with five other panelists, including Matteo Bologna, Roberto de Vicq, Carole Goodman, Pablo A. Medina, and Takaaki Matsumoto, she discussed how influential cultural backgrounds are in design, particularly in the globalized world we live in today. In her presentation, Maya hopped four continents, discussing the various locations that impacted her youth, education, and profession.
Pictured from left to right: Matteo Bologna, Roberto De Vicq, Patty Wongpakdee, Maya Kopytman, Rozina Vavetsi, Carole Goodman, and Pablo Medina Read more…
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.
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.
A C&G Partners team led by Associate Partner Maya Kopytman has designed a series of interactive motion graphic pieces to accompany a live orchestra performance of Caminos del Inka. This is a new concert program inspired by the Inca Trail, the pathways that once unified what is now Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Argentina. Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya conceived the event, first premiered with visual accompaniment by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in October 2008, to celebrate the musical legacy of South America. The Chicago Tribune called the premiere “a refreshing departure from the usual subscription concert fare and format … smartly put together”.
For the Maryland State House, the oldest working state house in the nation, C&G Partners created a new website that launched last month. The redesign modernizes the user experience while still reflecting the unique history of the building and site.
C&G Partners has created a new identity, new website and new stationery for renowned New York-based architectural photographer Chuck Choi. Chuck has been commissioned by many notable architects, and we are honored that he also counts C&G Partners itself as a repeat client.
Yesterday, C&G Partners launched a new website, a new visual brand, and new print collateral for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, a leading US organization in the advancement of the history, conservation, and enjoyment of European art, architecture, and archaeology from antiquity to the 19th Century. Here are some images from the branding, print and web projects, which use beautiful images and stories of the Kress collection itself to make the user experience memorable.
The new logotype. The elegant shape of the “K” was inspired by a decorative architectural detail from an S.H. Kress & Co. Art Deco building.
The stationery system features a collage of three different “punch marks,” which are decorative patterns that are embedded into a painting’s gilded surfaces:
Maya Kopytman is featured currently in Addict, the magazine of Creative, the Israeli advertising and design school. The article discusses the state of design competitions and the role of judges and juries in directing the evolution of the profession. The piece reflects on Maya’s work judging interactive design competitions for the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (organizers of the Webbys) and for Adobe.
Opening to the public on Tuesday, November 18th, this interactive exhibit designed by C&G Partners celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the independent deposit insurance agency created by Congress in 1933 to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s banking system. The exhibition, open to the public on 17th Street in Washington, DC, a block from the White House, steps through the history of the institution, the forces that steered its evolution, and its mission to protect the financial well-being of all Americans. Originally planned to be a year of retrospective celebration, the anniversary year actually fell during one of the most hard-hitting financial crises of modern times.
