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Fresh Project: LearningSpring School

C&G Partners — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:11:35 +0000

C&G Partners was hired in 2011 by the Simons Foundation to create a brochure commemorating ten years of the LearningSpring School. This innovation institution was conceived by an active group of parents and volunteers as a place to teach children on the autism spectrum.

The brochure marks the growth of the school from 5 classrooms and 32 children to a New York State-approved Non-Public Special Education Day School. Now housed in a handsome new LEED-certified building by architects Platt Byard Dovell White, they had a tenth birthday worth celebrating.

Fresh Project: Appalachia Map-Guide

C&G Partners — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:12:57 +0000

Recently the Appalachian Regional Commission and American Heritage Publishing marked the launch of the CGP-designed, “Civil War: The Home Front Map-Guide to Appalachia.” The map-guide was released in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. It was created as a tool to help the 13 regional states leverage the growing popularity of cultural heritage tourism.

The guide was designed to be an insert in American Heritage magazine, and it is distributed by tourism agencies in West Virginia and the 12 other Appalachian states (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee).

Read about the launch on ARC’s website here.

Fresh Award: Yankee Stadium Monograph wins GDUSA

C&G Partners — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:00:09 +0000

Graphic Design USA has selected the firm’s Yankee Stadium monograph as a 2010 award winner. The book surveys the signs, stadium graphics, sculptural installations, and exhibits designed by C&G Partners for the new Yankee Stadium in New York City. Team history and facts are interspersed throughout, to complement the book’s imagery and serve as a guided tour of the home of one of the greatest teams in sports.

As the Yankees would agree, winning comes from great teamwork. Many thanks to the client, architects, designers, photographers, and fabricators who made this one possible.

Luhring Augustine: 25 Years

C&G Partners — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:06:17 +0000

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!

Announcing Two New Partners

C&G Partners — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:59:23 +0000

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.

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.

Read the latest posts about Maya in Fresh >

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.

Read the latest posts about Amy in Fresh >

Fresh Press: Lake Antiquity in Eye Magazine

C&G Partners — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:15:43 +0000

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.

Emanuela Frigerio’s Recipes for Good Design

C&G Partners — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:24:17 +0000

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.

Emanuela’s projects featured for this environmentally-aware showcase were the “I Bottle My Own” water bottles designed for Riverkeeper’s Drink Tap Water campaign, and the Crane Paper, 100% Cotton: The Definitive Collection Swatchbook, showcasing paper made of recovered cotton fibers from textile and cotton gin processing.

These two projects were among over one hundred innovative and well-designed products from the freshest and most up-and-coming international designers. Both of these exhibitions “explore[d] ways to tweak the basic ingredients that make up our kitchens to produce the most eco-friendly, energy efficient models possible.” View an online synopsis of C&G Partners’ participation in the exhibit here.

Image credit: Exhibit photography courtesy of designboom.

“The Graphic Imperative” at Kalamazoo’s Richmond Center

C&G Partners — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:53:47 +0000

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.

Fresh Project: Lake Antiquity

C&G Partners — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:02:54 +0000

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.

Lake Antiquity is published by Fence Books and distributed domestically and internationally by UPNE (University Press of New England).

“Downing has sequenced his collages with cinematic pacing; you fly through these pages as you might in a dream.” – Review, BookForum

Read a full description of the book here and view a slideshow of the book’s spreads here.

New Article Published: Marketing Daily

C&G Partners — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:52:05 +0000

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.