Fresh Projects: Building Markets in Timor-Leste
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.
Category: Fresh Projects
Fresh Project: Lake Antiquity
Working in collaboration with the author, partner Emanuela Frigerio and her team recently designed Lake Antiquity, a full-color monograph of collages and found-language poems created over a twelve year period by artist Brandon Downing.
Fresh Project: RFE/RL in Prague
C&G Partners has completed another project through the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors: a monumental sign for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s new headquarters in Prague. The facility is located on a busy street filled with cars and trolleys. The new main signage is large (because of the speed at which it must be read), angled (because of the oblique directions of approach) and built in two materials and two colors to separate the two languages.
Fresh Press: MJH on Flavorwire
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.
Fresh Press: VOL on Feet in Two Worlds
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.
Fresh Press: MJH in eOculus
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.
Fresh Project: Museum of Jewish Heritage
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.
Fresh Press: MJH in Fast Company and Time Out New York
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.
Fresh Press: El Museo in Artdaily.org
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.
Fresh Press: El Museo in Contract Magazine
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.
Fresh Press: El Museo in NY Times
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.
Sneak Peek: Panamanian Passages
This Saturday, October 17 marks the opening of a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Latino Center in Washington, DC. The exhibit, titled “Panamanian Passages,” is a bilingual installation focusing on pivotal points in Panamanian history. The exhibit documents the isthmus’ 3 million-year-old origins to the social-political developments going on today.
Fresh Press: El Museo del Barrio in NY Daily News
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.
Opening This Week: El Museo del Barrio
El Museo del Barrio New York reopens this week with all-new primary exhibits, “Voces y Visiones” and “Nexus New York,” designed by C&G Partners. Opening events this week include a press preview on Wednesday, a members reception on Thursday from 8 to 10, and the public opening all day Saturday. The public opening will include a ribbon cutting ceremony at 11 followed by a festive open house until 9 PM in the evening. See more on the public opening here. More project images and information to come.
Fresh Project: Kress Annual Report
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has just released its Annual Report, designed by the firm. Grants and fellowships awarded by the Foundation are introduced by images of European master artworks from the Foundation’s collection. The design team, led by partner Emanuela Frigerio, looked to the Foundation’s vast collection, distributed decades ago in a unparalleled populist gesture to scores of art museums across the country, for inspiration.
Fresh Project: Henry Miller’s Theatre
Henry Miller’s Theatre in New York City opens tonight to much fanfare with the first preview performance of “Bye Bye Birdie.” Working closely with the architects, Cook+Fox, C&G Partners created a sign program for this state of the art theater housed behind a restored landmark facade.
Fresh Project: Trinity Church Exhibit
As an extension of the exhibits C&G Partners created for the 300th Anniversary of Trinity School in New York City, the firm developed a gallery installation located inside Trinity Church, near Wall Street in Manhattan (closing soon, on August 31st). The project explores the 300-year old relationship between these sister institutions, one a church and one a school.
Fresh Project: Holocaust Museum
C&G Partners and teammates Small Design Firm and Potion have created a new interactive experience for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “From Memory to Action” focuses on the genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, and asks visitors to take action right inside the exhibit.
The exhibit has several distinct parts. The C&G Partners team collaborated on the overall concept and gallery architecture, then designed the woven graphic wall (which references the three genocides in words and images, and runs along the perimeter of the gallery space), the graphics throughout the project, and all constructed elements, structures and surfaces. Read more…