Category: People

Caminos del Inka Around the World

Caminos del Inka, an interactive musical journey designed by C&G Partners, continues touring globally. Recently spotted on Caminos del Inka’s facebook page are photos from the program being conducted around the world, bringing new and young audiences to concert halls for a classical musical experience. So far it has been performed in premier musical venues such as Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Tanglewood, MA; Fort Worth, TX; Philadelphia, PA; Leipzig, Germany and Helsinki, Finland, both of which are pictured below:

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Read a past Fresh post about the project and view the project page.

Photos courtesy of Caminos del Inka on facebook and the MDR Sinfonieorchestrar website

Fresh Awards: Riverkeeper and Portico win WMA

The Web Marketing Association has tapped the firm’s Riverkeeper and Portico websites to receive awards for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development. Both sites were honored specifically for Non-Profit Standard of Excellence.

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View the award for Riverkeeper here. View the award for Portico here and read more about the project here.

Fresh Award: Yankee Stadium Monograph wins GDUSA

Graphic Design USA has selected the firm’s Yankee Stadium monograph as a 2010 award winner. The book surveys the signs, stadium graphics, sculptural installations, and exhibits designed by C&G Partners for the new Yankee Stadium in New York City. Team history and facts are interspersed throughout, to complement the book’s imagery and serve as a guided tour of the home of one of the greatest teams in sports.

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As the Yankees would agree, winning comes from great teamwork. Many thanks to the client, architects, designers, photographers, and fabricators who made this one possible.


New Sondheim Theatre Unveiled

Our work at One Bryant Park is back in the limelight with the newly-renamed Stephen Sondheim Theatre opening last week in midtown. Formerly known as Henry Miller’s Theatre, the venue also unveiled a new look to go with its new name – in addition to the marquee, we have updated our interpretive thru-block timeline mural, as well as added many new operational signs. Raise the curtain on a successful fall season!

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Voices of Liberty MUSE Award in Museum Magazine

The firm’s award-winning Voices of Liberty installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage appears in the current print edition of Museum, the magazine of the American Association of Museums (AAM).

Luhring Augustine: 25 Years

To commemorate their 25th anniversary, Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York has produced a new monograph of all their gallery shows and accompanying printed material since 1985. Throughout that period, partner Keith Helmetag designed numerous printed pieces for the shows of contemporary artists from Christopher Wool and Richard Prince to Rachel Whiteread. Congratulations to our friends at Luhring Augustine, and here’s to the next 25!
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Fresh Press: Two New Partners in UnBeige

Read the full article here.

Announcing Two New Partners

We are very pleased to announce two new Partners of the firm: Maya Kopytman and Amy Siegel.

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Maya Kopytman (left) has more than two decades of design experience in interface design for websites, software, and location-based experiences. Amy Siegel (right) brings over two decades of experience to the design of signage and wayfinding, environmental and print graphics. Read more…

Sneak Peak: Kaplan Thaler Group

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.

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Take another sneak peek of our work for KTG on their website and Facebook.

Our Very Own A.N.T.

Partner Keith Helmetag was proud to see that the Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle exhibit at the Museum of Art & Design features two of Mike Flanigan’s A.N.T. hand-crafted commuter bicycles. Keith commutes daily from Carroll Gardens to our studio on an A.N.T. with the same Major Taylor-inspired truss frame featured in MAD’s current exhibit. And there is one piece of design innovation we can call our own: Keith collaborated with Mike to add a historic under-the-seat shifter (look above the rear wheel).

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Report from Cannes

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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Maya Kopytman at Apple Store Soho – Tonight

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!

Jonathan Alger at SEGD

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.

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.

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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.

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Fresh Project: Portico Website

Associate Partner Maya Kopytman and her team recently launched a redesigned website for Portico, a nonprofit that provides digital preservation services to libraries and publishers within the educational community. The website needed to more clearly communicate their offerings and expertise in the field of digital preservation, while positioning themselves as the leading and the most trusted service among their competitors.

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Fresh Press: Major League Baseball

The firm’s work for the offices of Major League Baseball, a collaboration with MLB and architects Butler Rogers Baskett (BRB), appeared this week in the blog of Architects Newspaper.

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The project was led by partner Keith Helmetag with Craig Gephart and Mika Owens.

Fresh Press: Annapolis Maritime Museum

A new permanent interactive exhibit for the Annapolis (MD) Maritime Museum, “Oysters on the Half Shell,” led by partner Keith Helmetag, opened to the public this week. A tasty article in Hometown Annapolis appeared today. From the article:

The exhibit focuses on the natural history of the innocuous bivalve crossostrea virginica and why it’s so important to the health of the Chesapeake Bay. It also celebrates the cultural history of the people who worked in the once-thriving oyster industry, either harvesting oysters or shucking and packing them at McNasby’s, which operated from 1919 to 1986.

The C&G Partners team for this project, which has been years in the making, has included Keith Helmetag, Daniel Fouad, Mika Owens, Brandon Downing, Justine Gaxotte, and Bob Callahan.

Yankee Stadium in segdDESIGN

Our recent project for Yankee Stadium appears in the initial issue of segdDESIGN in 2010 with a six page spread entitled, “Yankees Go Home.” In the article, the Stadium’s signage, graphics, and museum are discussed from a vantage point about how our firm provided “context in another kind of American monument: the baseball cathedral.”

Read the article in full online and read past press about the Yankee Stadium on Fresh.