C&G Partners continues their work with the iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City as they near the completion of a once-in-a-century restoration and conservation project. To honor the generosity of their many patrons, the Cathedral commissioned C&G to design a system of donor signage. The program uses classical letterforms hand carved into stone and wood surfaces.
The Stolen Heart Video Map has been honored with a 2018 DIGI Award in the Best Content: Ambient Category. The 3D projection-mapped video table was the centerpiece of an exhibition at the Leo Baeck Institute that illustrated Jewish expropriation during the Third Reich. The map mixed topographic and time-lapse elements with stylistic color tints and a custom musical score to create a somber yet inspiring mood. The DIGI Awards are one of the only industry award programs that recognize the "outstanding integrators, content providers, and product manufacturers focusing on digital signage and DOOH (Digital Out of Home) markets."
Final touches at the U.S. Embassy in London, including signage and graphics done by C&G Partners, are being installed as part of an on-going process to relocate State Department operations in their new Battersea headquarters. Congratulations to the extensive team: Kieran Timberlake architects, landscape architects Olin, and others.
Featured below is a CNC milled and hand carved seal as well as listing of Ministers and Ambassadors that anchors the reception lobby. Stay tuned for more photographs featuring our interior and exterior signage and wayfinding program.
C&G Partners exhibit design and digital installation for the San Diego History Center's Junípero Serra Welcome Center was covered by Kate Heller in the SEGD (Society for Experiential Graphic Design) article The River Runs Through it. "Placing the river as the protagonist in the story became especially fitting because you can see the river and most of the watershed from the site,” says Keith Helmetag about the design concept. “It’s an interesting way to tell what might seem like divergent and, in some cases, controversial stories together with one outlook.” Read more at SEGD.
C&G Partners wishes all our wonderful clients, co-workers, colleagues, family, and friends Peace in 2018.
What Matters: Investing in Results to Build Strong, Vibrant Communities is a joint project by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Nonprofit Finance Fund that features essays exploring the possibilities of an outcomes-based world. The publication is the fourth in a series of book designs by C&G Partners for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Read MoreThe often heard San Diegan inquiry—And where is the River?—is answered through the Oculus Well, a digital installation at the center of the Junípero Serra Museum Welcome Center. The studio designed the installation, along with several planned exhibit phases that were part of the Junípero Serra Museum restoration.
How do you capture 150+ years of performance art and institutional history into a comprehensive, visual digital database? What role does design play in chronicling ephemeral art? This month’s Culture Crunch—Archiving the Ephemeral—dove deep into the makings of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s new Leon Levy Digital Archive, featuring a talk with Sharon Lehner, the Director of Archives at BAM. Culture Crunch is C&G's incubator series for the studio mission: design for culture.
Jonathan Alger shed light on disrupted storytelling at the 2017 SEGD Xlab, a conference about digital innovation and the future of experience design. The session featured C&G's digital designs that demonstrate how the studio incorporates new models of user-engagement. The session that was followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. The studio also hosted an SEGD Xlab studio innovation tour for students and industry professionals. This year’s Xlab theme—Experiences in the Era of Disruption—showcased how disruption is impacting experiential graphic design. It included presenters from Living Map, Civiq, DailyDOOH, Float4, Lab at Rockwell, Reality Interactive, Gallagher & Associates, WeWork, Intersection, and Potion, Tessellate, Two Twelve, and others.
Gabriel Shalom traversed transdisciplinary choreography at last week's October Culture Crunch, Dancing About Architecture. The director, choreographer, musician, and designer shared his multidimensional practice centered around concepts of multiplicity, transformation, simulation, and decompression. His presentation answered questions like: how can an expansive definition of choreography activate a space? How can an expansive definition of architecture change the way we think about collaboration? We know what a site-specific work is; what about a work-specific site? Culture Crunch is C&G's incubator series for the studio mission: design for culture.
