Keith Helmetag
Partner

As one of the founders of the firm, Keith offers creative and management direction to a talented team involved in sign, environment and exhibition design commissions.

Keith is currently leading the sign and visitor experience planning for three of New York City’s largest projects: Yankee Stadium, Bank of America’s Headquarters at One Bryant Park (Manhattan’s first platinum LEED skyscraper) as well as the World Trade Center Memorial Names Commemoration and site graphics. He is also currently designing exhibits for the Federal Reserve Bank, South Carolina's Horry County Museum, Scenic Hudson's West Point Foundry Preserve and Wisconsin's Aldo Leopold Foundation.

Recently, he completed an award-winning tour experience of the Good Housekeeping Institute heralding women's advocacy as well as exhibits for the duPont Nemours Mansion & Gardens Visitor Center, Buffalo's Erie Canal Waterfront District and the Teacher's Legacy Hall for the University of North Carolina. His designs for NYC's Flushing Freedom Mile, which brought the themes of religious asylum to the sidewalks of the world's most ethnically diverse neighborhood, are currently being expanded in a second phase interpretive program. Keith's innovative approach for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Museum display was recently awarded its own patent from the Office.

While a principal at Chermayeff & Geismar Inc., Keith designed exhibits for The Money Museum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Automobile & Culture for Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Science City and kidpower! for the New York Hall of Science, the National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration’s Rookery Bay Reserve, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, as well as signage and environmental design for Lincoln Center, Terminal 4 at Kennedy Airport; and Gannett/USA Today Headquarters. A Heritage Trails New York kiosk designed by Keith for the World Trade Center that survived 9/11 has recently been included in the Memorial's collection for display.

Keith received a sappi Ideas That Matters grant promoting literacy and lemur conservation in Madagascar and also served on their 2005 selection jury. He is a recipient of the American Institute of Architect’s Committee On The Environment (COTE) award for Philadelphia’s Heinz Tinicum Nature Reserve, and was the graphic designer of The New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Keith was educated as an architect (B.Arch.,UC/Berkeley), graphic designer (Philadelphia’s University of the Arts) and business manager (M.B.A., New York University’s Stern School of Management).

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