Category: Fresh Press

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A review of Lake Antiquity, a monograph of Brandon Downing’s collages and found poetry, designed by Partner Emanuela Frigerio, appears in the Spring 2010 issue of Eye Magazine.

Read the review online or download a larger version of the image above. Read more about the project in this synopsis.

Communication Arts has awarded the interactive table used in our exhibit on the Bosnian, Rwandan and Darfur genocides for the United States Holocaust Museum called “From Memory to Action” in the category of the Interactive Annual 16 in Information Design. The multitouch table, which was designed in conjunction with collaborators Potion, allows visitors to get more in depth information on individuals’ stories with these modern day atrocities by touching one of the projected pieces of text.

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The firm’s work for the offices of Major League Baseball, a collaboration with MLB and architects Butler Rogers Baskett (BRB), appeared this week in the blog of Architects Newspaper.

The project was led by partner Keith Helmetag with Craig Gephart and Mika Owens.

A new permanent interactive exhibit for the Annapolis (MD) Maritime Museum, “Oysters on the Half Shell,” led by partner Keith Helmetag, opened to the public this week. A tasty article in Hometown Annapolis appeared today. From the article:

The exhibit focuses on the natural history of the innocuous bivalve crossostrea virginica and why it’s so important to the health of the Chesapeake Bay. It also celebrates the cultural history of the people who worked in the once-thriving oyster industry, either harvesting oysters or shucking and packing them at McNasby’s, which operated from 1919 to 1986.

The C&G Partners team for this project, which has been years in the making, has included Keith Helmetag, Daniel Fouad, Mika Owens, Brandon Downing, Justine Gaxotte, and Bob Callahan.

Our recent project for Yankee Stadium appears in the initial issue of segdDESIGN in 2010 with a six page spread entitled, “Yankees Go Home.” In the article, the Stadium’s signage, graphics, and museum are discussed from a vantage point about how our firm provided “context in another kind of American monument: the baseball cathedral.”

Read the article in full online and read past press about the Yankee Stadium on Fresh.

Our signage and wayfinding system for the RBS headquarters in Stamford CT, designed by a C&G Partners team led by Keith Helmetag and Amy Siegel, appeared recently in the New York Times. Below, top executives of the Bank posing beneath the monumental lobby sign wall.

Read a past Fresh post on RBS and find out more about the project on our portfolio page.

One visible new part of the firm’s ongoing signage and wayfinding design project at One Bryant Park recently attracted attention from real estate blog Curbed NY. The write up wryly notes that these “simple letters in stainless steel” not only identify the location of Bank of America’s new HQ on the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue, but also “remind everyone who’s in charge” and mark “where the money can be found.” Below, some images of part of the work in progress: the main sign in dimensional steel, with the inside surfaces of the letterforms in stark white.

The project, developed by the Durst Organization with collaborating architects Cook+Fox, and led on our side by Partner Keith Helmetag and Associate Partner Amy Siegel, also includes the newly reopened and revamped Henry Miller’s Theatre.

Read the full article on Curbed NY. Read more detail on the overall project here and recent Fresh posts on Henry Miller’s Theatre here.

Partner Keith Helmetag was called one of 2010’s “People to Watch” in January’s Graphic Design USA.

In the interview, Keith discusses his background, his design process, what inspires him creatively, a list of favorites, and what he would be if he weren’t a designer. Read the whole article here.

Photo: Red de Leon

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.

Under Consideration posted an inspirational article by Partner Steff Geissbuhler in the “Brand New” section today. The editorial strays from the typical material covered on that website – mainly, new identity work – and instead describes Steff’s experience watching his brand identity for MercyCorps evolve over time. In the field, the logo has often been executed roughly and quickly, sometimes by hand and from memory, with the simplest materials. For other institutions, that would be bad news. But not in this case: here, it is a perfect match for the mission and purpose of the organization.

Read the article in full 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.

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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.

SEGD picked up on the firm’s exhibit design work for El Museo del Barrio. Read the write-up on SEGD’s blog here. Read past posts on El Museo here.

The firm’s recent design work for El Museo del Barrio’s two exhibitions, “Voces y Visiones” and “Nexus New York,” appears today in artdaily.org.

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.