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Sneak Peak: Kaplan Thaler Group

C&G Partners — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:49:15 +0000

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.

Fresh Press: El Museo in GDUSA

C&G Partners — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:09:03 +0000

The firm’s recent exhibit work for El Museo del Barrio is featured in the December issue of GDUSA. Read the article, “Bi-Lingual Exhibition Design,” here. Read past Fresh posts about the El Museo project here.

Fresh Project: RFE/RL in Prague

C&G Partners — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:33:28 +0000

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.

The 10-foot-high, custom-drawn, dimensional letterforms create a sculptural installation that changes language depending on direction of approach, either “LIBERTY” or the same word with the same amount of letters in Czech, “SVOBODA.” LIBERTY is opaque colored glass; SVOBODA is stainless steel. Each letter pair intersects on a central vertical axis; the shapes required intensive engineering to create the minimal, graceful final result.

Words were selected as the theme of the installation because of the urgent nature of the news broadcasting done inside, which is often sent by shortwave radio to countries with limited freedom of the press.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a repeat client of the firm; see past projects here and here .

Fresh Press: El Museo in SEGD Blog

C&G Partners — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:13:12 +0000

SEGD picked up on the firm’s exhibit design work for El Museo del Barrio. Read the write-up on SEGD’s blog here. Read past posts on El Museo here.

Fresh Press: El Museo in Artdaily.org

C&G Partners — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:15:01 +0000

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

C&G Partners — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:44:42 +0000

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

C&G Partners — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:17:18 +0000

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

C&G Partners — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:35:30 +0000

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.

The firm’s exhibit designs draw on the unique geography and ecology of the place and reference the vibrancy of the country and its inhabitants through bold colors. A series of graphic panels feature the people themselves in a series of silhouettes, representing the Panamanian population seen throughout history, from its indigenous roots to those moving the country into the 21st Century.

This is the second Latin-American exhibit program created by the firm to open this week. This is also the second Smithsonian exhibit that the firm has worked on, the first being the Star-Spangled Banner, which you can read about here.

Find more about the Panamanian Passages exhibit on the Smithsonian Latino Center’s site here.

Fresh Press: El Museo del Barrio in NY Daily News

C&G Partners — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:07:29 +0000

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

C&G Partners — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:45:10 +0000

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.