Fresh Award: Voices of Liberty Wins MUSE Award
The firm’s Voices of Liberty installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage has just won a MUSE award, the museum technology award from the American Association of Museums (AAM).
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Fresh Press: Lake Antiquity in Eye Magazine
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.
“From Memory to Action” Wins Communication Arts Interactive Award
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.
Fresh Press: One Bryant Park on Curbed NY
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.
Emanuela Frigerio’s Recipes for Good Design
Partner Emanuela Frigerio was invited to showcase two of her projects for Kitchen Ecology: Recipes for Good Design, an exhibition curated by designboom. The exhibit focused on innovative kitchen design with an emphasis on reducing environmental impact. This summer, the exhibition was hosted at Dwell on Design in Los Angeles, and this past December was showcased in Korea at the Seoul Design Festival.
Helping Haiti Through Design
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.
Fresh Press: MJH in BroadwayWorld
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.
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.
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.
Unimark International Book Signing at The Type Directors Club
The newly published book, Unimark International: The Design of Business and the Business of Design by Jan Conradi, will be released this coming Wednesday, December 9th at The Type Directors Club. Unimark, a firm that shaped the design era in the 1960′s and 70′s and whose influence still resonates today, has a personal connection with the firm via a memorable interview that took place in June 2004. When Jan was traveling Europe in research for this book, partner Emanuela Frigerio set up an interview for her to take place in Milan. Emanuela acted as translator for this sit down with former Unimark Milan designers, including Franco Gaffuri, Emanuela’s former employer.
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.
Emanuela Frigerio to Speak at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Event
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.
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 Press: MJH in Artdaily.org
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.
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…
Fresh Press: 7 Winners in 7 Years from SEGD
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:
