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In Memoriam: Emanuela Frigerio

C&G Partners — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:52:00 +0000

It is with great sadness that we report the sudden and unexpected passing of our friend, colleague and partner, Emanuela Frigerio. She passed away on May 6th in her sleep.

Emanuela will be greatly missed by the clients who worked with her, her friends and family, and of course by all of us at C&G Partners. Her warmth, friendly manner, creativity and spirit made her very special to us.

While we are deeply affected, we wish our clients to know that C&G Partners remains dedicated to serving their needs as always, as Ema herself would have wanted. Reflecting back and moving forward, we collectively keep her memory with us.

We are planning a professional tribute in the coming months. Please contact us if you would be interested in attending or participating.

In sadness,
C&G Partners

Fresh Award: Voices of Liberty Wins MUSE Award

C&G Partners — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:07:39 +0000

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).

Voices of Liberty was also a 2010 finalist for the International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) of the Industrial Design Society of America. It will be noted in the 2010 Innovation Yearbook of Industrial Design Excellence and in the IDEA Galleries online.

Read project summaries about the exhibit and the corresponding website and kiosk, as well as past Fresh posts about the project.

The Voices of Liberty project was led by partner Jonathan Alger, with partner Emanuela Frigerio leading graphic design and associate partner Maya Kopytman leading the web portion of the project. The project was created in collaboration with technology design firm Potion.

Fresh Press: Lake Antiquity in Eye Magazine

C&G Partners — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:15:43 +0000

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

C&G Partners — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:59:16 +0000

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.

Read details on the award in the March/April 2010 issue of Communication Arts and a synopsis of the project.

Fresh Press: One Bryant Park on Curbed NY

C&G Partners — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:34:46 +0000

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 Henry Miller’s Theatre.

Read the full article on Curbed NY. Read more detail on the overall project here and recent Fresh posts on Henry Miller’s Theatre here.

Emanuela Frigerio’s Recipes for Good Design

C&G Partners — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:24:17 +0000

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.

Emanuela’s projects featured for this environmentally-aware showcase were the “I Bottle My Own” water bottles designed for Riverkeeper’s Drink Tap Water campaign, and the Crane Paper, 100% Cotton: The Definitive Collection Swatchbook, showcasing paper made of recovered cotton fibers from textile and cotton gin processing.

These two projects were among over one hundred innovative and well-designed products from the freshest and most up-and-coming international designers. Both of these exhibitions “explore[d] ways to tweak the basic ingredients that make up our kitchens to produce the most eco-friendly, energy efficient models possible.” View an online synopsis of C&G Partners’ participation in the exhibit here.

Image credit: Exhibit photography courtesy of designboom.

Helping Haiti Through Design

C&G Partners — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:23:19 +0000

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

C&G Partners — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:02:45 +0000

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

C&G Partners — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:33:59 +0000

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.

The logo, which is designed to reflect restorative economic growth that occurs when a developing country buys goods and services locally, has been applied in several incarnations, such as office, street cart and ferry signage.

These application methods are indicative of the logo’s success facilitated by its simplicity; it lends itself to digital media reproductions as well as old style application techniques such as stencil painting.

Designed by partner Emanuela Frigerio, the logo has also been part of initiatives in Afghanistan and Haiti. Read a further synopsis of the project here.

Fresh Project: Lake Antiquity

C&G Partners — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:02:54 +0000

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.

Lake Antiquity is published by Fence Books and distributed domestically and internationally by UPNE (University Press of New England).

“Downing has sequenced his collages with cinematic pacing; you fly through these pages as you might in a dream.” – Review, BookForum

Read a full description of the book here and view a slideshow of the book’s spreads here.