Honors

2009

The Star Spangled Banner Permanent Exhibition Interactive Table wins a
2009 365: American Institute of Graphic Arts Annual Design Award

The Star Spangled Banner Interactive Table wins a 2009 American Association of Museums MUSE Award

C&G Partners receives the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) 2009 Merit Award for the Erie Canal Waterfront District in Buffalo, NY

2008

C&G Partners receives the Event Design Magazine 2008 Best Graphical Treatment Award for the Erie Canal Commercial Slip in Buffalo, NY

C&G Partners receives the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) 2008 Merit Award for the Good Housekeeping Institute in New York, NY

C&G Partners receives the 2008 One Show Design Merit Award for the “America’s Favorite Architecture” (AIA 150) traveling exhibit

The “America’s Favorite Architecture” (AIA 150) companion website, favoritearchitecture.org, is nominated for a Webby Award and wins a Webby People’s Voice award

The “America’s Favorite Architecture” (AIA 150) companion website, favoritearchitecture.org, is honored for information design in Communication Arts Interactive Annual 14

The “America’s Favorite Architecture” (AIA 150) companion website, favoritearchitecture.org receives the Outstanding Website award from the Web Marketing Association

The “New York University Timeline” exhibition is honored in the 365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 29 for excellence in information design

2007

C&G Partners is named a 2007 National Design Awards finalist by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

C&G Partners receives the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) 2007 Merit Award for the Hearst Building Sign Program in New York, NY

C&G Partners receives the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) 2007 Jury Award for the Griffith Observatory exhibits in Los Angeles, CA

C&G Partners earns an the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Leadership in History Award of Merit for the exhibit, “John Adams Unbound” at the Boston Public Library

“John Adams Unbound” is selected as a 2007 WOW Award winner by the American Association for State and Local History AASLH Leadership in History awards committee

C&G Partners is awarded the We, the People grant for Special Projects Implementation & Libraries Implementation by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for “John Adams Unbound”

The “America’s Favorite Architecture” (AIA 150) companion website, favoritearchitecture.org, is named Site of the Week by Communication Arts

2006

Maya Kopytman joins C&G Partners as Associate Partner and is elected to the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences

Jonathan Alger is elected president of the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD)

2005

Steff Geissbuhler is awarded the Medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the highest award of the profession

Emanuela Frigerio is awarded four Mitchell A. Wilder Awards from the Texas Association of Museums for her design work on The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas

Jonathan Alger is elected vice president of the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD)

“Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.: Designing over four decades”, a major exhibition featuring the work of the four partners opens at the Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo, Japan

2004

Keith Helmetag is awarded a Sappi Paper Ideas that Matter grant to produce a children’s book that promotes literacy in Madagascar and supports efforts by the Lemur Conservation Foundation’s Tampolo Forest Station in Madagascar, as well as the Lemur Conservation Foundation in Mayakka City, Florida

Jonathan Alger elected to the board of the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD)

“Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.: Designing over four decades”, a major exhibition featuring the work of the four partners opens at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC

2003

“Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.: Designing over four decades”, a major exhibition featuring the work of the four partners opens at The Cooper Union in New York, NY

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) select the Cusano Environmental Education Center at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge one of the top 10 examples of green architecture

2002

Emanuela Frigerio receives a 2002 General Services Administration Design Award for the Design Excellence Monograph Series

Jonathan Alger and Emanuela Frigerio are recognized for the design of the “AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2001’ exhibition in the American Institute of Graphic Arts Collection 365: AIGA Year in Design 24

Jonathan Alger and Emanuela Frigerio receive the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) 2002 Lot with a Little Design Award for the American Institute of Graphic Arts “50 Books/50 Covers of 2001” exhibit

2000

Jonathan Alger receives Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) Merit Award for USAID Visitors Center at the Reagan Building in Washington, DC

National Design Award

In 2007, C&G Partners were Finalists for the National Design Award in Communication Design. This award is “given to an individual or firm for exceptional and exemplary work in graphic or multimedia design.” From Cooper-Hewitt:

The National Design Awards were conceived in 1997 by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design. First launched at the White House in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the annual Awards program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement. The Awards are truly national in scope—nominations for the Awards are solicited from a committee of more than 800 leading designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures, and corporate leaders from every state in the nation.

CBS Sunday Morning

In 2006, C&G Partners appeared twice on CBS News Sunday Morning, first on their annual “Money Issue” show, and then in an encore the following week. The firm was asked to create a visual brand identity for the show itself, and a correspondent and crew followed a design team inside the office for three days. The segment was left unfinished on purpose on the first Sunday, with three possible final contenders for the solution. CBS News launched a web voting site and 16,000 people voted for their favorite. Watch the video results here.

The AIGA Medal

In 2005, C&G Partners co-founder Steff Geissbuhler was given the AIGA Medal, the highest award of the profession, referring to him as the “designer of some of the most memorable posters and definitive corporate-identity programs of the latter part of the 20th century.”

From the AIGA:

The medal of the AIGA, the most distinguished in the field, is awarded to individuals in recognition of their exceptional achievements, services or other contributions to the field of graphic design and visual communication. The contribution may be in the practice of graphic design, teaching, writing or leadership of the profession. … Individuals who are honored may work in any country, but the contribution for which they are honored should have had a significant impact on the practice of graphic design in the United States.