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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 Henry Miller’s 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.

Fresh Project: Kress Annual Report

C&G Partners — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:45:18 +0000

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.

Specific sources of inspiration include The Muse of Painting by Giovanni Battista Lupicini, which lends a meaningful artistic sentiment to the cover of a modern day financial piece. The report is internally framed by a pair of sequential paintings featuring Daphne and Apollo from the 15th century, which grace the endpapers.

This is the most recent undertaking by the firm for the Kress Foundation, following commissions for the redesigned identity and collateral system and website, among other projects.

A free download of the Kress 2008 Annual Report in PDF format, with much larger views of each page and the embedded imagery, can be found here.

Fresh Project: Crane

C&G Partners — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:50:03 +0000

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.

A closeup of the paper samples inside the swatchbook:

A few spreads from the book:

One more surprising fact: Crane doesn’t only provide all-cotton paper to printing businesses and consumers of stationery: since 1879, the U.S. Treasury Department has printed all U.S. currency on Crane 100% cotton paper. Have you ever had a dollar bill go through the washing machine? It comes out intact because it isn’t paper. (We can’t resist one last fact: you can even iron it.)

Steff’s Geigy Work in Current Book and Exhibit

C&G Partners — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:40:17 +0000

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: