The firm’s website for The King Center is now part of the Drupal Showcase, honoring excellence in use of Drupal, a leading open-source content management system.
The site was designed by C&G Partners, implemented in Drupal by Palantir.net, and integrated with the Alfresco document management system for the archive portion of the site. Read more about the project here.
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is particularly special for C&G Partners: a new website designed by the firm for The King Center in Atlanta, including never before seen artifacts from the King collection, was released to the public.
The King Center Imaging Project, an Initiative of JPMorgan Chase & Co., has created a new digital archive to be the basis of the new site. It makes thousands of documents – letters, speeches, drafts, notes, photos and more – available for free to the general public for the first time. The new site is designed to be used by people around the globe, particularly in the developing world. Read more…
Two C&G exhibition projects were featured this week in the New York Times: Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles and John Adams Unbound. The Emma Lazarus project opened recently at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York and was reviewed by Edward Rothstein. The image below appeared with the piece.
The John Adams project is the traveling panel version of a larger show at the Boston Public Library, both designed by the firm. It was reviewed by the Times when it arrived at a venue on Long Island as part of its long countrywide tour. The image below appeared with that article.
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.
Just in time for the holidays: Rizzoli has just released a handsome monograph on Nemours Mansion & Gardens, where a new visitor center hosts permanent exhibits by C&G Partners.
From the new book: The Visitor Center exhibition (created by C&G Partners of New York City, working in tandem with Nemours staff) interweaves major moments in Alfred’s life with a timeline of contemporary world events– context that may inspire visitors to consider ways in which they too can contribute to life in their own communities.
The Egg Strategy website which launched earlier in 2011 (and also just won a WMA award) recently went live with a mobile version of their website by the firm.
The mobile website translates the oversized typography of the Egg Strategy printed matter and desktop website to the tiny screens of handheld devices. Each page can be accessed in almost exactly the same way as one might using a native application, all the while managing to present the entirety of the content from its bigger brother, based as it is, on a shared content management system and database. Egg staff updates one, and the other follows suit.
C&G Partners designed a visual brand, exhibit and interactives for a new initiative of JPMorgan Chase & Co., in conjunction with The King Center in Atlanta. The King Center Imaging Project will digitize tens of thousands of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s inspirational and historic documents for public use.
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. Read more…
The Web Marketing Association has awarded two of the the firm’s website projects: Egg Strategy won the Professional Services Standard of Excellence and Coming of Age won the Non-Profit Standard of Excellence.
C&G Partners is deeply honored to serve the 9/11 Memorial and project team, continuing to help plan wayfinding and signage for the plaza, visitor pavilion and museum. We were moved by the front page of the New York Times on September 11 this year, featuring the latest design for the names commemoration at the memorial, designed by Michael Arad with contributions from Local Projects and data artist Jer Thorp.
The image below is from our project archives: a snapshot of an early prototype that C&G Partners created for the design of the names. Over time, the design has evolved and is now an extraordinary experience. We are honored to have been among those able to help shape this powerful design for generations to come.
C&G Partners’ exhibit “Worked/Wild” recently opened at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown, NY. Led by Partner Keith Helmetag, the exhibit focuses on the wilderness vs. the cultivated use of the land in the Adirondack area’s history.
The firm’s website for the non-profit organization Riverkeeper is now part of the WordPress Showcase.
The website, built entirely on the open-source WordPress platform, supports not only basic website functionality, like static informational pages and video inclusion, but also hosts robust areas, such as a comprehensive water quality testing data section. In addition, WordPress’ customizable nature allowed for the organization’s branding and visual design to be implemented consistently across all webpages. All WordPress implementation was done by John Ford of Aldenta.
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 Museum of Jewish Heritage has been awarded a Bronze MUSE Award in Education & Outreach for the website Coming of Age in the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now, created by C&G Partners. The MUSE Award competition recognizes excellence in media produced by or for museums and is produced by the American Association of Museums (AAM). “It moved me to tears,” declared a judge during the jury meeting for this category.
This marks the third MUSE win or co-win for the firm in as many years, with The Star Spangled Banner Interactive Table winning a gold in 2009, and the The Voices of Liberty Exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage receiving a silver in 2010.
View a synopsis of the Coming of Age project below:
View the website for yourself.
A new book by Richard Poulin featuring C&G Partners work has recently been published. The Language of Graphic Design: An Illustrated Handbook for Understanding Fundamental Design Principles, published by Rockport Publishers, includes the firm’s projects for Signature Theatre Company, Darien Library, Overture, O’Shaugnessy, Kyorin, and Toledo Museum of Art.
Timekeeper, the interactive image capture interface that C&G Partners and Potion made for the Museum of Jewish Heritage to record the evolution of celebrated sculptor Andy Goldsworthy’s Garden of Stones, got a VIP visitor recently: Andy Goldsworthy himself.
CGP recently launched an interactive Holocaust curriculum for the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. The project, led by Partner Maya Kopytman, includes moving video of survivors’ testimonies within contextual spots in each story, an interactive timeline and a geography quiz plotting the path of each survivor, and a robust Discussion section providing an online forum for class thought-sharing on topics stemming from the story.
This spring, Partner Steff Geissbuhler will be judging the best of 2010 identity work along with four others: two of them designers, two of them clients as part of the Brand New Awards. The competition is part of UnderConsideration, and was created to include a focus not just on “concept and execution but with an increased level of scrutiny toward strategy and business,” by including both types of judges. Submissions are accepted now through March 31 for students and professionals from any country, and judging will take place April 7 through 9 in Austin, TX.
Caminos del Inka, an interactive musical journey designed by C&G Partners, continues touring globally. Recently spotted on Caminos del Inka’s facebook page are photos from the program being conducted around the world, bringing new and young audiences to concert halls for a classical musical experience. So far it has been performed in premier musical venues such as Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Tanglewood, MA; Fort Worth, TX; Philadelphia, PA; Leipzig, Germany and Helsinki, Finland, both of which are pictured below:
Read a past Fresh post about the project and view the project page.
Photos courtesy of Caminos del Inka on facebook and the MDR Sinfonieorchestrar website
The Web Marketing Association has tapped the firm’s Riverkeeper and Portico websites to receive awards for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development. Both sites were honored specifically for Non-Profit Standard of Excellence.
View the award for Riverkeeper here. View the award for Portico here and read more about the project here.
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.
