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.
This Thursday, January 14th marks the opening of “The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice & the Environment, 1965-2005,” at the School of Art at Western Michigan University. The posters chosen for display “have transmitted the ideals, hopes and dreams of millions who have dared to raise their voices in protest or concern. They have helped empower and propel important movements for social change.” Steff Geissbuhler’s well-known “Peace” poster is one of the chosen hundred.
The exhibit runs until February 19th. Find out more details on the exhibit and the venue here.
Working in collaboration with the author, partner Emanuela Frigerio and her team recently designed Lake Antiquity, a full-color monograph of collages and found-language poems created over a twelve year period by artist Brandon Downing.
The firm’s Director of Brand Strategy and Business Development, Leslie Sherr, has an article featured on today’s Marketing Daily homepage, filled with advice for marketers on how to best approach the financial services sector in a forever-altered economy. The article, titled “Communications In The ‘New Normal,’” includes ten points that marketers can use to help regain footing in their financial services strategies. Read the article in full online here.
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has just released its Annual Report, designed by the firm. Grants and fellowships awarded by the Foundation are introduced by images of European master artworks from the Foundation’s collection. The design team, led by partner Emanuela Frigerio, looked to the Foundation’s vast collection, distributed decades ago in a unparalleled populist gesture to scores of art museums across the country, for inspiration.
Paper company Crane & Co. has launched a new swatchbook, Crane Paper, 100% Cotton: The Definitive Collection. No trees or wood fiber go into the production of this paper because is entirely made of cotton. The swatchbook itself is made from cotton paper as well, and was designed by a C&G Partners team led by Partner Emanuela Frigerio.
(Learn more about the environmental aspects of cotton paper here. Download the entire swatchbook as a PDF here. See the end of this post for another surprising fact about Crane paper and US money.)
Not only is the paper 100% cotton, but no cotton is even grown to make it. It all comes from fibers left over during industrial cotton processing. And because there’s no lignin in cotton, no dioxin is created as a by-product.
Partner Steff Geissbuhler’s early work in Switzerland for the pharmaceutical firm Geigy is currently featured in both an exhibition and a book. The exhibition, Good Design, Good Business, Schweizer Grafik und Werbung für Geigy 1940-1970 (Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising for Geigy), is currently on view at the Museum of Design in Zurich. The accompanying book, Corporate Diversity – Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy, 1940-1970 (Lars Müller Publishers), is on sale now. Fan of Swiss design? See a short film on the exhibit here (caution: narration in Swiss German).
Here are more images from the book, and a few rare scans from Steff’s own archive from the early years:
The world tour continues. The bookmark designed by Ema Frigerio and the Adams team for the John Adams Unbound exhibit travels onwards at the fan site “Where in the World is John Adams?”. Latest stops: bumping into Al Sharpton and touring the Jefferson Library at Library of Congress, which is coincidentally another project of lead partner Jonathan Alger. Past post here.
C&G Partners has created a new brand identity for the Greater Hudson Heritage Network, an organization for heritage professionals. The mark projects both the historical nature of the membership and the future potential of the organization. As requested by our client, the logo also deliberately avoids overused regional imagery and colors: no river, no boats, no waves, and no maps of New York State.
The design team explored a range of icons, insignia and symbols, and came to the conclusion that a wordmark was the most appropriate way of communicating the name. The four words are typeset to be the same length, and arranged to read both as the full name and as the secondary vertical pairings ‘Greater Heritage’ and ‘Hudson Network’.
Just in time for Washington’s Birthday, AKA President’s Day, C&G Partners has designed the guide for a new walking tour entitled “George Washington’s New York.” Created for the National Parks of New York Conservancy with support from The History Channel and the Alliance for Downtown New York, the walking tour guide features numerous rare historical images from the Fraunces Tavern Museum and New-York Historical Society.
The design team was led by partner and George Washington fan Steff Geissbuhler.
We couldn’t resist: a group of fans have used a bookmark we designed for the traveling version of the John Adams Unbound exhibit as the basis of a new blog for pictures of it posed around the country. The bookmark was originally designed as a die-cut bust of the second President of the United States, who would then peer over the top of whatever book he might be marking. Both the original installation and the traveling version were created by C&G Partners for the Boston Public Library.
Stay tuned for more on the traveling show. Learn more about the Adams library project here.
The Grand Opening at the Darien Public Library continues, with a popular new lecture series and other special events, all featuring the line of printed materials (and brand identity) crafted by C&G Partners. A full set of the materials produced so far arrived in our office this week:
Gone are the laminated library cards of the past: the C&G team, led by partner Steff Geissbuhler, designed a library card for today’s fast-paced lifestyle. Miniaturized to keyring size, it allows patrons to check out their books with a quick swipe (center right in the image above).
C&G Partners has created a new identity, new website and new stationery for renowned New York-based architectural photographer Chuck Choi. Chuck has been commissioned by many notable architects, and we are honored that he also counts C&G Partners itself as a repeat client.
The Museum of American Finance (MoAF), with exhibits, interactive installations and identity by C&G Partners, has a new online store. A line of branded museum merchandise on sale there features the “MU$EUM” identity created by the firm. Who knew financial literacy could be cool? Proceeds support the educational programs of the Museum.
Next Monday, October 20th, Partner Emanuela Frigerio will be mentoring young teen designers at the Teen Design Fair, held during Design Week at the Cooper-Hewitt. Emanuela appeared at the Fair last year as well, when the firm was nominated for the National Design Award. Young designers can ask Emanuela about a career in design, what it’s like to be a designer, and how they can get involved. The design disciplines covered will include architecture, landscape, interiors, fashion, graphic design, branding, media, games and products.
Steff Geissbuhler will give a “Design Hero Lecture” next week at the AGI Student Conference in Chicago, on Tuesday, September 23, 2008.
From AGI Chicago: On September 23-28, 2008, over 1000 of the world’s top designers, students, educators and graphic arts professionals will converge in Chicago for the 2008 AGI Congress and AGI Student Conference. Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) will bring their annual Congress to America for only the third time in fifty years. Billed as the global design event of 2008, the event will present lectures, exhibitions, and a host of unique interactions with the world’s most notable leaders from the design profession. The student program invites students and design educators from throughout the world to engage in a variety of lectures, special programs, workshops and exhibitions. AGI members will participate in side-by-side activities with the attendees, sharing knowledge, practical insights and hands-on instruction.
More about AGI worldwide here. See you in Chicago.
Next week, Steff Geissbuhler will speak about the firm’s new brand identity for the Greater Hudson Heritage Network at the annual conference of the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH). Steff’s lecture will be on Friday, September 12, 2008 in Rochester, New York.
Steff is delighted to speak at AASLH. The organization gave C&G Partners three separate honors in 2007 for the “John Adams Unbound” exhibit at the Boston Public Library: the Award of Merit, a “WOW” Award from the Leadership in History Awards Committee, and a “We, the People” special designation.
