The firm’s touring exhibit allows visitors to study and interact with Dr. King’s documents in high resolution and experience first-hand the process of digitization used in the lab.

The project includes interactive stations featuring four of Dr. King’s most famous written works: the “I Have a Dream” speech, the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, and the “Drum Major Instinct” sermon. The documents come alive with multimedia annotations, asides, images and videos.

Exhibit visitors can write their own dream, have it scanned, and add it to wall with hundreds more. Visitors start by writing their hopes on a special “My Dream Is” card. (In the first image below, exhibit guests Martin Luther King III and his wife Arndrea write their own dream for the future.)

The card is digitally captured using the same technology used for the digitization of the entire King collection.

The digital image is saved and permanently archived into the King Center collection.

Finally, visitors physically post their card on the Dream Wall where it joins hundreds more.

The exhibit includes drawers full of high-resolution, annotated document reproductions for visitors to hold and examine; a video about the digitization project; and custom-colored computer stations.

One terminal allows visitors to listen to complete audio recordings of Dr. King’s most famous speeches, watch complete historic footage of the pivotal “I Have a Dream” speech, and explore The King Center’s current website.

C&G Partners also created the visual brand for the The King Center Imaging Project itself, the exhibit staff livery, takeaways and other items.

The modular, reconfigurable exhibit was launched at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington DC, and will travel to the Congressional Black Caucus, The King Center in Atlanta, Chase headquarters in New York City, and many other venues.

C&G Partners was honored to do the concept, exhibit, graphic and interactive design for the project. The video was edited by our frequent collaborators Russell Brosnahan Haffner Multimedia, Inc. The exhibit was built and installed by Art Guild, Inc. C&G Partners is currently working on a complete new website for the King Center and the King Center Imaging Project, which will debut in 2012.

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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.

More about Maya:

Maya has received numerous awards, among them the “Gold Pencil” from One Show Interactive and the Webby “People’s Voice” Award. Her work has appeared in many industry publications, including Graphis Interactive and Communications Arts. In 2006 Maya joined C&G Partners as an Associate Partner, heading the firm’s interactive design practice.

She has led numerous projects, including websites for Riverkeeper, American Council of Learned Societies, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, ARTstor, JSTOR, the American Institute of Architects, Kaplan Thaler Group, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, NYU Wagner School of Public Service, and FujiFilm. Her location-based interactive projects include exhibit software for the Museum of Jewish Heritage, document exploration systems for the Museum of American Finance, interactive orchestral visuals for Caminos del Inka and interactive kiosks for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum.

Maya holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and an MFA from Pratt Institute. She has been a visiting instructor in Pratt’s Department of Computer Graphics and Interactive Multimedia, and is currently a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. From 1994 until 2006 she was a principal member of IconNicholson in New York, and a Senior Vice President there since 2004.

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More about Amy:

Since joining C&G Partners in 1998, Amy has planned, designed and managed large as well as small-scale signage and wayfinding programs for institutional, corporate and public clients.

She has recently completed an award winning sign program for the Hearst Tower in addition to sign programs for the new Yankee Stadium, the Bank of America Tower and the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, all in New York City. Two of the projects she is currently working on are the 9/11 Memorial Site and Museum at Ground Zero, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece. She has completed several large transportation projects including the new International Terminals at Logan Airport in Boston and JFK International Airport in New York.

Other noteworthy signage and architectural graphics projects include EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; the McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio, TX; Gannett/USA Today Headquarters, McLean, VA; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA; Times Square Subway Station, New York, NY; Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD; Landman Library at Arcadia University, PA; Jacob Javits Federal Building, New York, NY; a branding program for GSA buildings nationwide; Flushing Freedom Mile, Flushing, NY; Baruch College, City University of New York; and The University Club, New York.

Amy studied Fine Art at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the New York Studio School and has a BFA from Pratt Institute. She is a member of the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

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As the originators of the Marketplace Recovery Project’s logo, C&G Partners donated “Build Local. Build Haiti.” lock-ups, in both French/Creole and English/Creole, and versions with and without web addresses, all executed quickly in order to get these graphics available as soon as possible.

Peace Dividend Trust has also put up a temporary web portal just for their Haitian mission, and you can read more about the developing program in Haiti here. Other designers and design organizations, such as AIGA, are encouraging support for Haiti’s recovery as well.

Steff was also appointed to the jury in 2008. In the past year, he juried the Spikes Asia, an extension of the Cannes Lions in Singapore.

The logo, which is designed to reflect restorative economic growth that occurs when a developing country buys goods and services locally, has been applied in several incarnations, such as office, street cart and ferry signage.

These application methods are indicative of the logo’s success facilitated by its simplicity; it lends itself to digital media reproductions as well as old style application techniques such as stencil painting.

Designed by partner Emanuela Frigerio, the logo has also been part of initiatives in Afghanistan and Haiti. Read a further synopsis of the project here.

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At his offices in Milan, Gaffuri brought in Emilio Fioravanti (G&R Associati) and Cristiano Sironi (Sironi GD&P) for the interview and discussed their days at Unimark when Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda were working there.

This and similar discussions on the history of this monumental firm and its design legacies are found in the book. Find out details on Wednesday’s book signing event here.

Images courtesy of francogaffuri.com.