This spring, Partner Steff Geissbuhler will be judging the best of 2010 identity work along with four others: two of them designers, two of them clients as part of the Brand New Awards. The competition is part of UnderConsideration, and was created to include a focus not just on “concept and execution but with an increased level of scrutiny toward strategy and business,” by including both types of judges. Submissions are accepted now through March 31 for students and professionals from any country, and judging will take place April 7 through 9 in Austin, TX.
As reported earlier here in Fresh, partner Steff Geissbuhler is serving as President of the Design Lions jury at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival taking place this week. Steff’s international jury of 15 designers from Portugal, Singapore, Russia, South Africa, UK, Sweden, France, Brazil, Germany, Canada, Malaysia, Italy, India, Japan and the USA arrive bright and early each morning for the judging. (Steff is at the center of the image below.)
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Associate Partner Maya Kopytman will speak tonight, Friday, at 6:30 at the Apple Store Soho (New York City) about her Caminos Del Inka project, an interactive animated performance that premiered with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
For more information on the event tonight, click here. See you there!
On Saturday, June 5, Partner Jonathan Alger will give a tour of the Star-Spangled Banner project at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, during the SEGD conference. The tour begins at 2 PM.
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.
Steff Geissbuhler has been appointed act as President of the Design Lions jury in Cannes, which is part of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival taking place from June 20th to June 26th. The festival is a global meeting place for communication industry professionals, and includes seven days of award ceremonies, seminars, workshops, master classes, exhibitions, screenings and networking. As President of the Design Lions jury, Steff will participate in the Press Lions and Cyber Lions Awards Ceremonies in addition to the Design Lions.
Steff was also appointed to the jury in 2008. In the past year, he juried the Spikes Asia, an extension of the Cannes Lions in Singapore.
Tomorrow evening, partner Steff Geissbuhler will be speaking to students at the University of Cincinnati about his recent projects and some from the firm’s other disciplines. He will be presenting recent identity work executed for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Alhurra TV Network, Darien Library, and the Nonprofit Finance Fund, as well as the firm’s signage, architectural graphics, and exhibits at the new Yankee Stadium.
This just in: in addition to partner Emanuela Frigerio, senior designer Mariano Desmaras will also be participating in the Cooper-Hewitt event posted here earlier. Read about the past Fresh post about the event here. Read more details about National Design Week events here, and register your teen to attend for free here.
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is gearing up to host its Teen Design Fair during National Design Week. Partner Emanuela Frigerio will participate in the event on Monday, October 19th (4 to 6:30 PM at the TimesCenter, 242 W 41st Street in Manhattan). It will be her third time at the event.
Each year, the Museum gives students a chance to talk to prominent designers in small, intimate groups where they can ask questions about career possibilities in design. This year, over 400 high school students will be attending to hear about graphic design, fashion, industrial design, architecture and multimedia. Speakers are frequently drawn from past National Design Award winners and nominees; the partners of the firm were 2007 National Design Award finalists. The event is open to all teens and is free with advance registration.
On October 15th, Partner Steff Geissbuhler will present the firm’s identity and signage work for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney at the iMedia Connection Financial Marketing Summit. Steff will be presenting alongside Ramona Boston, CMO of Morgan Stanley, at 3 PM at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. The event is free to marketers and agency executives (seats by invitation only).
Request an invitation here. See full summit details here. See more on our work for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney here. Read a past Fresh post here.
Partner Jonathan Alger will be participating in an evening sponsored by AIGA/NY in their member series “My Dog and Pony II.” Designers from four firms will be revisiting one pitch they made in the past to a potential client, then revealing what happened afterwards. Jonathan will talk about the initial presentation done for the recently completed Yankee Stadium project.
The event will take place on Monday, September 28th from 7 – 8:30 PM at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. See all the details and register here.
Partner Steff Geissbuhler will be in Singapore 14-19 September to judge Spikes Asia, the “1st Asian Advertising Festival”.
Last week, C&G Partners Senior Designer Mariano Desmaras led a design workshop organized by the Smithsonian Latino Center (SLC) as part of the Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP). The workshop included a discussion of the firm’s ongoing Latino-focused projects and a two-hour charette where the participants were asked to design a survey-style exhibition of Latino art. Mariano’s participants were mid-career museum professionals and graduate students selected from a nationwide pool of applicants with curatorial, educational and scholarly specialties.
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Earlier this month, Associate Partner Maya Kopytman participated in the panel discussion, “Designers Without Borders,” at the New York Institute of Technology. Along with five other panelists, including Matteo Bologna, Roberto de Vicq, Carole Goodman, Pablo A. Medina, and Takaaki Matsumoto, she discussed how influential cultural backgrounds are in design, particularly in the globalized world we live in today. In her presentation, Maya hopped four continents, discussing the various locations that impacted her youth, education, and profession.
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Yesterday, partner Jonathan Alger participated in a panel discussion at the final senior review of the undergraduate Design + Management department at Parsons The New School for Design. Chaired by the recently-appointed Dean of Parsons, Joel Towers, the panel discussion on the future of the profession and the department also included Businessweek innovation writer Bruce Nussbaum, New School General Counsel Roy Moskowitz, and Parsons alumna Ashley Melisse Abess from fashion house Chris Benz. Jonathan has also been an adjunct faculty member at Parsons in the past. Congratulations to the new graduates, parents, friends, and faculty.
At the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums “Creating Exhibitions” annual symposium on Monday, Partner Jonathan Alger will host a panel discussion called “Museumless.” The session will explore the expansion of museum-type exhibits beyond the traditional walls of the museum to surprising new venues, with unexpected benefits. The sessions on Monday will be held at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey. Find out more about the event here. See previous museumless-related events here.
C&G Partners has created a new brand identity for the Greater Hudson Heritage Network, an organization for heritage professionals. The mark projects both the historical nature of the membership and the future potential of the organization. As requested by our client, the logo also deliberately avoids overused regional imagery and colors: no river, no boats, no waves, and no maps of New York State.
The design team explored a range of icons, insignia and symbols, and came to the conclusion that a wordmark was the most appropriate way of communicating the name. The four words are typeset to be the same length, and arranged to read both as the full name and as the secondary vertical pairings ‘Greater Heritage’ and ‘Hudson Network’.
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In 2007, C&G Partners went to the White House for lunch. The sitting First Lady is always designated the chair of the National Design Awards given by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the firm was a finalist that year in the Communication Design category.
Here is a never-before-released photograph from last year’s event. (L to R: Laura Bush, Jonathan Alger, Emanuela Frigerio, Keith Helmetag, Steff Geissbuhler.) We were honored to be there — and of course we’d be thrilled to have lunch with the new First-Lady-Elect someday.
Next week, Steff Geissbuhler will speak on the subject of “Making and Leaving a Mark” at the ninth annual DesignThinkers 2008 conference in Toronto.
From designthinkers.com: Steff explores the thinking behind the creation of a logo, trademark or visual vocabulary and the many forms and personalities an identity can take on. Using his work as examples, Steff will discuss the problems of designing for other countries and languages as well as branding, establishing and projecting a personality, appropriateness and mission, international problems, working for government, media, cultural and nonprofit clients.
Billed as an “annual journey into the creative process and a celebration of strategic design thinking,” the DesignThinkers conference is hosted every year by RGD Ontario, the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario.
Next Monday, October 20th, Partner Emanuela Frigerio will be mentoring young teen designers at the Teen Design Fair, held during Design Week at the Cooper-Hewitt. Emanuela appeared at the Fair last year as well, when the firm was nominated for the National Design Award. Young designers can ask Emanuela about a career in design, what it’s like to be a designer, and how they can get involved. The design disciplines covered will include architecture, landscape, interiors, fashion, graphic design, branding, media, games and products.