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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Read the full article online here. Read a past Fresh post on the project here.
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.”
See all Fresh posts on Yankee Stadium here.
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.
Read other Fresh posts about the project, which was led by partner Keith Helmetag, here and here.
See the winning entry (and the other winners, a great group of projects from around the world) online at SEGD’s site here.
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.
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
A new suite of environmental installations designed by C&G Partners for GE’s Tax and Energy Financial Services occupies prominent locations throughout a new headquarters building in Stamford, Connecticut. The new facility is a multipurpose meeting center used by all GE divisions.
At the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums “Creating Exhibitions” annual symposium on Monday, Partner Jonathan Alger will host a panel discussion called “Museumless.” The session will explore the expansion of museum-type exhibits beyond the traditional walls of the museum to surprising new venues, with unexpected benefits. The sessions on Monday will be held at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey. Find out more about the event here. See previous museumless-related events here.
The exhibits designed by our team at the Good Housekeeping test labs were featured recently on ABC News Nightline. or you can now see the entire piece on Nightline’s site. The Good Housekeeping project was led by Partner Keith Helmetag.
C&G Partners is working on the signage, architectural graphics and exhibits at the new Yankee Stadium, which opens to the public next month. Although the project is still officially under wraps until the public opening, images of the work in progress have been appearing in various places (see previous post) for a few months and in the Yankees official online photo galleries. Last week, this image of the exterior facade of the new stadium appeared in the New Yorker, in an article by Paul Goldberger. The architectural graphics shown in the image were designed by the firm.
The Yankees project is being led by Partner Keith Helmetag and Associate Partner Amy Siegel.