Storytelling plays a central role in the C&G Partners-designed interactive ice cream museum at the new Ample Hills Creamery factory in Red Hook, Brooklyn. In addition to the 12,500 sq. ft. production space, currently the largest ice cream factory in NYC, the location features an additional 2,000 sq. feet for the interactive ice cream museum, retail dipping counter, and expansive party areas. The visitor journey recounts how cofounder husband and wife duo Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna became ice cream purveyors, explains the manufacturing process, and highlights the fast-growing company’s local roots. This includes wall graphics incorporating the line from Walt Whitman’s Crossing Brooklyn Ferry that inspired the its name: “I too lived—Brooklyn of ample hills was mine.”
“LGBTQ+ San Diego: Stories of Struggles and Triumphs” opened last week at the San Diego History Center—ahead of San Diego Pride weekend, held only a short walk away from the exhibit location. C&G Partners is proud to design the first exhibition in Balboa Park focused on the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. The show drew staggering 2,000 visitors during the opening week with an expected 250,000 visitors during its run until January 2020.
The emotion of the crowd was the inspiration C&G Partners drew on to design “Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11,” the special exhibition at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The exhibition explores how sports and athletes helped console a grieving nation, unite the country, and provide a reason to cheer again following the 2001 attacks.
Hurricane season 2018 has begun. For over four years, C&G Partners has been working with NYC Emergency Management to design Know Your Zone, the city's hurricane awareness campaign that encourages New Yorkers to find out which zone they live in. Running through this year's season (June 1 until November 30), the 2018 campaign includes new PSA videos of a diverse array of real New Yorkers who survived hurricanes and have been trained as volunteers to support NYC first responders. The interview-style videos were produced, scripted, filmed, and directed by C&G Partners in conjunction with Cruz Dann Productions.
How do you make a university welcome center inviting, inclusive and accessible to the deaf community? This was our challenge when designing the visitor experience of the newly unveiled Maguire Welcome Center at Gallaudet University (GU), a premier institution of learning, teaching, and research for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. For the project, C&G Partners worked in collaboration with the university and Dangermond Keane Architecture to create a visitor experience specifically for “deaf eyes.” You can read the press reviews on Graphic Design USA and SEGD.
For the 80th anniversary of the terrifying events of Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany, C&G Partners worked with the Leo Baeck Institute to develop "1938 PROJEKT: Posts from the Past". The year-long social media, web and exhibit program presents 365 daily posts of archival documents from the year 1938. In transposed real time, they tell the story of how Jewish citizens perceived that increasingly fateful year. C&G Partners developed the project’s visual identity and crafted social, web and physical experiences.
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.
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.
The 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.
