C&G is honored to be a 2014 International Design Excellence Awards Finalist in the Environments category for the design of the exhibit Against the Odds at Museum of Jewish Heritage. This is one of several recent awards Against the Odds has been recognized for – including SEGD, New York Design Awards and Core 77. IDEA Awards is a recognition of design excellence in products, interactive design, service design, strategy, research, concepts and student designs in categories ranging from automobiles and commercial products to medical equipment and home furnishings. “The range and diversity of entries submitted for this year’s IDEA competition confirmed definitively that design has ‘arrived’ as an activity with undisputed relevance for a broad range of problem types,” remarked IDEA 2014 jury chair, Tad Toulis, IDSA, vice president of design at SONOS Inc. “In many ways the extent of that range, now grown so vast—seemed to herald a tipping point; a moment in time where design is openly embraced as a universal activity.”