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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!

Fresh Press: Two New Partners in UnBeige

C&G Partners — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:39:20 +0000

Read the full article here.

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 >

Sneak Peak: Kaplan Thaler Group

C&G Partners — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:49:15 +0000

C&G Partners has created a new brand identity, website and office display installations for Kaplan Thaler Group, the ad agency responsible for Aflac, Swiffer, and Wendy’s. Stay tuned for more – in the meantime, check out the sweet way KTG decided to celebrate their new brand.

Take another sneak peek of our work for KTG on their website and Facebook.

Our Very Own A.N.T.

C&G Partners — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:37:54 +0000

Partner Keith Helmetag was proud to see that the Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle exhibit at the Museum of Art & Design features two of Mike Flanigan’s A.N.T. hand-crafted commuter bicycles. Keith commutes daily from Carroll Gardens to our studio on an A.N.T. with the same Major Taylor-inspired truss frame featured in MAD’s current exhibit. And there is one piece of design innovation we can call our own: Keith collaborated with Mike to add a historic under-the-seat shifter (look above the rear wheel).

Report from Cannes

C&G Partners — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:55:56 +0000

As reported earlier here in Fresh, partner Steff Geissbuhler is serving as President of the Design Lions jury at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival taking place this week. Steff’s international jury of 15 designers from Portugal, Singapore, Russia, South Africa, UK, Sweden, France, Brazil, Germany, Canada, Malaysia, Italy, India, Japan and the USA arrive bright and early each morning for the judging. (Steff is at the center of the image below.)

A brief report from Steff (don’t worry, no spoilers):

“I’m here as president of the Design Lions Jury at Cannes. It’s the end of the second day of the first round of judging. As president I don’t vote until the fourth day of judging and elimination rounds. The voting is done electronically; each juror has a gadget and each vote is immediately tabulated and registered on a main computer. There is an army of over 300 press people here, hot our trail to find out the winners before the official announcement. The shortlist is immediately revealed after the juries conclude, and the winners are revealed the day after final deliberation.”

The Festival finishes on June 26th. Stay tuned.

Maya Kopytman at Apple Store Soho – Tonight

C&G Partners — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:44:11 +0000

Associate Partner Maya Kopytman will speak tonight, Friday, at 6:30 at the Apple Store Soho (New York City) about her Caminos Del Inka project, an interactive animated performance that premiered with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

For more information on the event tonight, click here. See you there!

Jonathan Alger at SEGD

C&G Partners — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:04:15 +0000

On Saturday, June 5, Partner Jonathan Alger will give a tour of the Star-Spangled Banner project at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, during the SEGD conference. The tour begins at 2 PM.

In Memoriam: Emanuela Frigerio

C&G Partners — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:52:00 +0000

It is with great sadness that we report the sudden and unexpected passing of our friend, colleague and partner, Emanuela Frigerio. She passed away on May 6th in her sleep.

Emanuela will be greatly missed by the clients who worked with her, her friends and family, and of course by all of us at C&G Partners. Her warmth, friendly manner, creativity and spirit made her very special to us.

While we are deeply affected, we wish our clients to know that C&G Partners remains dedicated to serving their needs as always, as Ema herself would have wanted. Reflecting back and moving forward, we collectively keep her memory with us.

We are planning a professional tribute in the coming months. Please contact us if you would be interested in attending or participating.

In sadness,
C&G Partners

Fresh Award: Voices of Liberty Wins MUSE Award

C&G Partners — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:07:39 +0000

The firm’s Voices of Liberty installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage has just won a MUSE award, the museum technology award from the American Association of Museums (AAM).

Voices of Liberty was also a 2010 finalist for the International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) of the Industrial Design Society of America. It will be noted in the 2010 Innovation Yearbook of Industrial Design Excellence and in the IDEA Galleries online.

Read project summaries about the exhibit and the corresponding website and kiosk, as well as past Fresh posts about the project.

The Voices of Liberty project was led by partner Jonathan Alger, with partner Emanuela Frigerio leading graphic design and associate partner Maya Kopytman leading the web portion of the project. The project was created in collaboration with technology design firm Potion.