Two C&G exhibition projects were featured this week in the New York Times: Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles and John Adams Unbound. The Emma Lazarus project opened recently at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York and was reviewed by Edward Rothstein. The image below appeared with the piece.
The John Adams project is the traveling panel version of a larger show at the Boston Public Library, both designed by the firm. It was reviewed by the Times when it arrived at a venue on Long Island as part of its long countrywide tour. The image below appeared with that article.
C&G Partners is deeply honored to serve the 9/11 Memorial and project team, continuing to help plan wayfinding and signage for the plaza, visitor pavilion and museum. We were moved by the front page of the New York Times on September 11 this year, featuring the latest design for the names commemoration at the memorial, designed by Michael Arad with contributions from Local Projects and data artist Jer Thorp.
The image below is from our project archives: a snapshot of an early prototype that C&G Partners created for the design of the names. Over time, the design has evolved and is now an extraordinary experience. We are honored to have been among those able to help shape this powerful design for generations to come.
The firm’s website for the non-profit organization Riverkeeper is now part of the WordPress Showcase.
The website, built entirely on the open-source WordPress platform, supports not only basic website functionality, like static informational pages and video inclusion, but also hosts robust areas, such as a comprehensive water quality testing data section. In addition, WordPress’ customizable nature allowed for the organization’s branding and visual design to be implemented consistently across all webpages. All WordPress implementation was done by John Ford of Aldenta.
Recently the Appalachian Regional Commission and American Heritage Publishing marked the launch of the CGP-designed, “Civil War: The Home Front Map-Guide to Appalachia.” The map-guide was released in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. It was created as a tool to help the 13 regional states leverage the growing popularity of cultural heritage tourism.
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A new book by Richard Poulin featuring C&G Partners work has recently been published. The Language of Graphic Design: An Illustrated Handbook for Understanding Fundamental Design Principles, published by Rockport Publishers, includes the firm’s projects for Signature Theatre Company, Darien Library, Overture, O’Shaugnessy, Kyorin, and Toledo Museum of Art.
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Our work at One Bryant Park is back in the limelight with the newly-renamed Stephen Sondheim Theatre opening last week in midtown. Formerly known as Henry Miller’s Theatre, the venue also unveiled a new look to go with its new name – in addition to the marquee, we have updated our interpretive thru-block timeline mural, as well as added many new operational signs. Raise the curtain on a successful fall season!
The firm’s award-winning Voices of Liberty installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage appears in the current print edition of Museum, the magazine of the American Association of Museums (AAM).
Read the full article here.
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 Stephen Sondheim Theatre (formerly Henry Miller’s Theatre).
Read the full article on Curbed NY. Read more detail on the overall project here and recent Fresh posts on the Stephen Sondheim 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.
