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!
We are very pleased to announce two new Partners of the firm: Maya Kopytman and Amy Siegel.
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…
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
The project was led by partner Keith Helmetag with Craig Gephart and Mika Owens.
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.
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.
Recently launched: the firm’s design for the AIGA Member Gallery. This interactive project, led by Associate Partner Maya Kopytman, lets AIGA members organize and exhibit their design portfolio on an online platform, connect and collaborate on projects, and comment on the design work of fellow members.
Our signage and wayfinding system for the RBS headquarters in Stamford CT, designed by a C&G Partners team led by Keith Helmetag and Amy Siegel, appeared recently in the New York Times. Below, top executives of the Bank posing beneath the monumental lobby sign wall.
Read a past Fresh post on RBS and find out more about the project on our portfolio page.
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.
Partner Keith Helmetag was called one of 2010’s “People to Watch” in January’s Graphic Design USA.
In the interview, Keith discusses his background, his design process, what inspires him creatively, a list of favorites, and what he would be if he weren’t a designer. Read the whole article here.
Photo: Red de Leon
Voices of Liberty, the firm’s recent exhibit and interactive project for the Museum of Jewish Heritage was just used today for a purpose for which it was certainly not originally designed, but which we happily support. A museum visitor proposed by bringing his girlfriend to the exhibit and asking her to read a poem he had posted in advance on the Voices of Liberty website we designed. The website is integrated with the exhibit and handles the user-contributed content part of the experience.
And in case you were wondering, she said yes. Good thing the design calls for two seats. Read about our MJH project here. And: congratulations!
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.
Fighting for Democracy, the traveling exhibit on race, democracy and war designed by C&G Partners for the Japanese-American National Museum, opened to the public last Friday, January 29, at its latest touring venue, the National Archives in Washington, DC.
The exhibit is open from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm daily and will be at the National Archives through February 28.
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.
