The firm’s website for The King Center is now part of the Drupal Showcase, honoring excellence in use of Drupal, a leading open-source content management system.
The site was designed by C&G Partners, implemented in Drupal by Palantir.net, and integrated with the Alfresco document management system for the archive portion of the site. Read more about the project here.
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is particularly special for C&G Partners: a new website designed by the firm for The King Center in Atlanta, including never before seen artifacts from the King collection, was released to the public.
The King Center Imaging Project, an Initiative of JPMorgan Chase & Co., has created a new digital archive to be the basis of the new site. It makes thousands of documents – letters, speeches, drafts, notes, photos and more – available for free to the general public for the first time. The new site is designed to be used by people around the globe, particularly in the developing world. Read more…
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 was hired in 2011 by the Simons Foundation to create a brochure commemorating ten years of the LearningSpring School. This innovation institution was conceived by an active group of parents and volunteers as a place to teach children on the autism spectrum.
The Egg Strategy website which launched earlier in 2011 (and also just won a WMA award) recently went live with a mobile version of their website by the firm.
The mobile website translates the oversized typography of the Egg Strategy printed matter and desktop website to the tiny screens of handheld devices. Each page can be accessed in almost exactly the same way as one might using a native application, all the while managing to present the entirety of the content from its bigger brother, based as it is, on a shared content management system and database. Egg staff updates one, and the other follows suit.
C&G Partners designed a visual brand, exhibit and interactives for a new initiative of JPMorgan Chase & Co., in conjunction with The King Center in Atlanta. The King Center Imaging Project will digitize tens of thousands of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s inspirational and historic documents for public use.
The firm’s touring exhibit allows visitors to study and interact with Dr. King’s documents in high resolution and experience first-hand the process of digitization used in the lab. Read more…
C&G Partners’ exhibit “Worked/Wild” recently opened at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown, NY. Led by Partner Keith Helmetag, the exhibit focuses on the wilderness vs. the cultivated use of the land in the Adirondack area’s history.
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.
CGP recently launched an interactive Holocaust curriculum for the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. The project, led by Partner Maya Kopytman, includes moving video of survivors’ testimonies within contextual spots in each story, an interactive timeline and a geography quiz plotting the path of each survivor, and a robust Discussion section providing an online forum for class thought-sharing on topics stemming from the story.
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
Two of the firm’s recent projects will be showcased in the exhibit “Retooling Industrial Sites” at the Center for Architecture in Philadelphia starting this month. The exhibit, which “will serve as a forum for the growing interest in industrial sites and urban manufacturing” will feature the recently completed Erie Canal Commercial Slip project (shown here), and the West Point Foundry Reserve project, both led by partner Keith Helmetag.
There will be a reception on opening night, February 5th, and the exhibit runs through March 26. Read more about the exhibit and the opening night event here.
Fighting for Democracy, the traveling exhibit on race, democracy and war designed by C&G Partners for the Japanese-American National Museum, opened to the public last Friday, January 29, at its latest touring venue, the National Archives in Washington, DC.
The exhibit is open from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm daily and will be at the National Archives through February 28.
The firm’s recent client, Peace Dividend Trust, whose Marketplace Recovery Project helps post-conflict countries recover economically by supporting the purchasing of local goods and services, is making expedited efforts in response to Haiti’s devastating earthquake. PDT, who had recently sent a team to initiate the project in Haiti, reached out to Emanuela Frigerio yesterday, requesting graphic design for this purpose.
As the originators of the Marketplace Recovery Project’s logo, C&G Partners donated “Build Local. Build Haiti.” lock-ups, in both French/Creole and English/Creole, and versions with and without web addresses, all executed quickly in order to get these graphics available as soon as possible.
Peace Dividend Trust has also put up a temporary web portal just for their Haitian mission, and you can read more about the developing program in Haiti here. Other designers and design organizations, such as AIGA, are encouraging support for Haiti’s recovery as well.
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.
Building Markets, part of Peace Dividend Trust’s economic recovery efforts, has implemented their “Buy Local” logo with great success in the field, most recently in Timor-Leste.
