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.
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.
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.
The firm’s Director of Brand Strategy and Business Development, Leslie Sherr, has an article featured on today’s Marketing Daily homepage, filled with advice for marketers on how to best approach the financial services sector in a forever-altered economy. The article, titled “Communications In The ‘New Normal,’” includes ten points that marketers can use to help regain footing in their financial services strategies. Read the article in full online here.
C&G Partners’ project for Henry Miller’s Theatre is profiled in the most recent East edition of the Architect’s Newspaper. The article mentions the firm’s engagement to design the signage and wayfinding throughout and around this New York institution, including the curtain of “kinetic sequins” displaying Miller’s visage located in the through-block by the theater.
Read the full article online here. Read a past Fresh post on the project here.
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.
The firm’s graphics, signage program and museum for Yankee Stadium were profiled in the September 2009 issue of GDUSA magazine. Excerpts: the firm “captured the origins of the 1923 stadium in a contemporary setting,” and “the Yankee brand experience was apparent in every aspect of the venue.”
See all Fresh posts on Yankee Stadium here.
The signage, architectural graphics and museum exhibits designed by the firm for Yankee Stadium appear in the September 2009 issue of Interior Design magazine. As the Yankees continue a successful 2009 season, we are honored to have collaborated with them and with the design and construction team — Populous, Tishman Speyer, Turner Construction and many others — that created the new Stadium.
The firm’s identity program for the Nonprofit Finance Fund was reviewed today at Brand New. Author Armin Vit writes, “…it’s nice to see a strong icon that is neither literal nor relying on visual pyrotechnics…This is a solid execution that works from logo to applications.” Read the entire review for yourself, including many reader comments, here. See a recent Fresh post about the project here. The NFF project was directed by partner Steff Geissbuhler.
Partner Steff Geissbuhler was just interviewed in the blog “Success Secrets of the Graphic Design Superstars.” He gives away some of his best secrets in the first paragraph, but read on for even more. In the end, says Steff, “Producing quality work is the essence of it all.”
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 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 current issue of SEGDdesign Magazine features the firm’s Erie Commercial Slip project, winner of an SEGD Design Award for 2009. Download the article as a PDF here.
Read other Fresh posts about the project, which was led by partner Keith Helmetag, here and here.
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.”
