Category: Environments

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.

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: 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.

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.

Keith Helmetag in GDUSA’s “People to Watch”

Partner Keith Helmetag was called one of 2010′s “People to Watch” in January’s Graphic Design USA.

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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

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The Yankees solidified their 27th World Series title in their new stadium last night against the Phillies, with a final score of 7 to 3. In response, we’ve updated our video chronicling the the firm’s design process for Yankee Stadium’s graphics, signage and wayfinding program, and museum exhibits, with a new ending: 2009 Champs.

C&G Partners design work for 2009 World Series Winners, the Yankees from C&G Partners on Vimeo.

Fresh Video: C&G Partners Design Work at Yankee Stadium

This video was prepared for an AIGA/NY lecture just a few weeks ago, but seems even more appropriate to post here during the current playoffs. C&G Partners created the graphics, signage, wayfinding and museum exhibits at the all-new Yankee Stadium in New York City. This short, fast-paced piece shows how the entire design program comes together across the entire Stadium. (Go Yankees!)

C&G Partners design work at Yankee Stadium from C&G Partners on Vimeo.

Henry Miller’s Theatre in Architect’s Newspaper

C&G Partners’ project for Henry Miller’s Theatre is profiled in the most recent East edition of the Architect’s Newspaper. The article mentions the firm’s engagement to design the signage and wayfinding throughout and around this New York institution, including the curtain of “kinetic sequins” displaying Miller’s visage located in the through-block by the theater.

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Read the full article online here. Read a past Fresh post on the project here.

Fresh Press: Yankee Stadium in Graphic Design USA

The firm’s graphics, signage program and museum for Yankee Stadium were profiled in the September 2009 issue of GDUSA magazine. Excerpts: the firm “captured the origins of the 1923 stadium in a contemporary setting,” and “the Yankee brand experience was apparent in every aspect of the venue.”

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See all Fresh posts on Yankee Stadium here.

Fresh Press: Erie Award in SEGDdesign

The current issue of SEGDdesign Magazine features the firm’s Erie Commercial Slip project, winner of an SEGD Design Award for 2009. Download the article as a PDF here.

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Read other Fresh posts about the project, which was led by partner Keith Helmetag, here and here.

Erie Canal Harbor Project SEGD Award Now Online

See the winning entry (and the other winners, a great group of projects from around the world) online at SEGD’s site here.

Fresh Awards: Two from CTGBC

Update and correction: two projects with contributions by C&G Partners have been honored in the Connecticut Green Building Council’s 2009 Design Awards: Darien Library (awarded top honor “Most Intriguing”) by Peter Gisolfi and Associates, for which partner Steff Geissbuhler’s team created the signage; and GE by Perkins Eastman Architects, for which partner Keith Helmetag’s team created installations about sustainability and the GE brand.

Fresh Award: “Most Intriguing Project” for GE

The interiors for GE’s Tax and Energy Financial Services headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut have just received the award for the “Most Intriguing” in commercial interiors in the 2009 Design Awards of the Connecticut Chapter of the United States Green Building Council (the CTGBC). (The CTGBC’s “Most Intriguing” is the one top prize in a category. All other honors are simply “Intriguing”.) The project includes a new suite of installations designed by C&G Partners in collaboration with Perkins Eastman Architects. Video production on this project was done by our long-time colleagues RBH Media.

Fresh Press: SEGD “Placemaking”

This month saw the release of the summary of The Society of Environmental Graphic Design‘s (SEGD’s) fifth annual symposium in exhibition and environment design in Cranbrook, Michigan in August 2008. In it, partner Jonathan Alger‘s talk on museumless exhibits is featured. From the article: “Untethered from their traditional settings, [museumless exhibits] can rejuvenate zoos and aquaria, corporate offices, gardens and nature centers, libraries and other facilities and engage and delight donors.” Download the full article as a PDF here.

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The article page by page:

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Fresh Press: “Place-Making Exhibits Draw from History”

A new article by partner Keith Helmetag appears in the current issue of Urban Land, the magazine of the Urban Land Institute, a major nonprofit organization that encourages creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. Helmetag writes that “Revealing history to create a strong sense of place can play a valuable role in urban redevelopment plans.” The article features a variety of projects related to economic development, including two by C&G Partners, Flushing Freedom Mile and Erie Commercial Slip. Download the full article as a PDF here. See another major article on the Erie project here.

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Fresh Press: Opening Day at Yankee Stadium

Local fans may not have cheered the final score last Thursday, but the Stadium itself got a lot of attention. Two of the installations conceived and designed by C&G Partners appeared in the sports pages of the New York Times that day in an article about baseball icon Yogi Berra. Berra, famous for his abilities and “Berra-isms” alike, is one of two players featured in a tableau of the “perfect game” that is the centerpiece of the new Yankees Museum.

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Yankee Stadium via Flickr

The fans have begun to make Yankee Stadium their own in the time-honored way: by uploading digital images to Flickr. Here are some of the images fans have been uploading thus far, all of which feature the signage and architectural graphics designed by C&G Partners. In one, the custom wordmark for the stadium itself, which was drawn by the firm, becomes the star of the show, appearing live, even bigger than normal, on the big screen during gametime. All pictures by fans.

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Yankee Stadium Sneak Peek Video Tour

A sneak peek video tour of the new Yankee Stadium is currently up in the “video corner” of the Yankee website. Among other things, the tour features the Great Hall banners, museum, large-scale signage, murals and audio programs designed by C&G Partners.

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Fresh Press: Yankee Stadium in the Daily News

The first baseball game in the new Yankee Stadium will be played tonight, an exhibition game between the Yankees and the Chicago Cubs, and the press is full of images of the new stadium, with signage, architectural graphics and a new Yankees Museum by C&G Partners. Here are a few images from slideshows from the NY Daily News. Stay tuned for more images from all of the opening events.

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