The new Darien Library, one of the top 10 small libraries in the nation, opens this Saturday, January 10th, with an all-new identity and signage by C&G Partners. For more information about the opening events, click here.
Just in time for the holidays, surfing enthusiast and partner Keith Helmetag has a new surfboard of his own design, a 9 ft, 9 in David Nuuhiwa Noserider, fresh out of the glassing bay at Joel Tudor Surfboards. Keith designed the board as a nod to the color-band series of late artist Sol Lewitt.
Yesterday, C&G Partners launched a new website, a new visual brand, and new print collateral for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, a leading US organization in the advancement of the history, conservation, and enjoyment of European art, architecture, and archaeology from antiquity to the 19th Century. Here are some images from the branding, print and web projects, which use beautiful images and stories of the Kress collection itself to make the user experience memorable.
The new logotype. The elegant shape of the “K” was inspired by a decorative architectural detail from an S.H. Kress & Co. Art Deco building.
The stationery system features a collage of three different “punch marks,” which are decorative patterns that are embedded into a painting’s gilded surfaces:
The firm’s New York University Timeline exhibition is honored in this year’s 365: AIGA Annual Design Competition for excellence in information design. An exhibit at AIGA featuring the NYU project opens to the public today at the AIGA National Design Center (through 20 Feb 2009 at 164 Fifth Avenue, New York, M-Th 11-6, Fr 11-5). The design team for the NYU Timeline was led by partner Emanuela Frigerio.
Bruce Thorpe has joined the firm’s business development team. Until recently a senior member of the legendary Siegel+Gale, and with past experience at Addison and interactive consultants Electronic Ink, Bruce joins C&G Partners to develop the firm’s relationships with clients of all kinds. Welcome, Bruce.
The White House has just released this image of the President touring the Star-Spangled Banner exhibit at the National Museum of American History during the dedication ceremony. (Unofficial rumor has it that he stayed longer in the exhibit than planned.)
NPR has posted an online audio slideshow about the opening of the National Museum of American History. The last half of the piece (1:25 mark) is an extended tour of the “heart of the museum”, the Star-Spangled Banner exhibit. The report is by NPR’s very excellent Susan Stamberg with great photography by Joel Riddle. See the entire slideshow here.
For an article called “Wall Street Under Glass,” the New York Times has just released this photograph of the Money exhibit at the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street, a project designed by C&G Partners that opened in January 2008.
CBS has just posted a piece on YouTube on the re-opening of the National Museum of American History, with special emphasis on, and footage of, the Star-Spangled Banner exhibit. The report covers the viewing chamber, the exhibits, the audio-visual pieces, and the interactive table. There is also some behind-the-scenes footage of museum staff inside the chamber examining the flag itself. The segment on the SSB begins at the :50 mark (total length 2:22). Reported by CBS/Thalia Assuras.
C&G Partners has just learned that the Erie Canal Harbor project, led by partner Keith Helmetag, has just won a 2008 Honor Award from the NY Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), under the category of collaborative design. The award will be presented in New York City in December. Award winners will be posted to the ASLA/NY website in the next few weeks.
