Last week, C&G Partners Senior Designer Mariano Desmaras led a design workshop organized by the Smithsonian Latino Center (SLC) as part of the Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP). The workshop included a discussion of the firm’s ongoing Latino-focused projects and a two-hour charette where the participants were asked to design a survey-style exhibition of Latino art. Mariano’s participants were mid-career museum professionals and graduate students selected from a nationwide pool of applicants with curatorial, educational and scholarly specialties.
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See the winning entry (and the other winners, a great group of projects from around the world) online at SEGD’s site here.
Update and correction: two projects with contributions by C&G Partners have been honored in the Connecticut Green Building Council’s 2009 Design Awards: Darien Library (awarded top honor “Most Intriguing”) by Peter Gisolfi and Associates, for which partner Steff Geissbuhler’s team created the signage; and GE by Perkins Eastman Architects, for which partner Keith Helmetag’s team created installations about sustainability and the GE brand.
Yesterday saw the launch of “Art of the Client Review”, an interactive experience designed by C&G Partners for OppenheimerFunds, one of the largest investment management companies in the US. The firm created the “Art of the Client Review” site to help financial advisors work more effectively with their clients in the current downturn.
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The interiors for GE’s Tax and Energy Financial Services headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut have just received the award for the “Most Intriguing” in commercial interiors in the 2009 Design Awards of the Connecticut Chapter of the United States Green Building Council (the CTGBC). (The CTGBC’s “Most Intriguing” is the one top prize in a category. All other honors are simply “Intriguing”.) The project includes a new suite of installations designed by C&G Partners in collaboration with Perkins Eastman Architects. Video production on this project was done by our long-time colleagues RBH Media.
This month saw the release of the summary of The Society of Environmental Graphic Design’s (SEGD’s) fifth annual symposium in exhibition and environment design in Cranbrook, Michigan in August 2008. In it, partner Jonathan Alger’s talk on museumless exhibits is featured. From the article: “Untethered from their traditional settings, [museumless exhibits] can rejuvenate zoos and aquaria, corporate offices, gardens and nature centers, libraries and other facilities and engage and delight donors.” Download the full article as a PDF here.
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C&G Partners has just completed the sign and architectural graphics installation at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. The project was done in collaboration with Roger Ferris Architects and Hines Interests (with whom we also worked on a project at the headquarters of Gannett / USA Today). The signs and architectural graphics are carefully detailed, with reflective materials reminiscent of the building façade itself.
More images to come. The project was lead by associate partner Amy Siegel with partner input by Keith Helmetag.
Earlier this month, Associate Partner Maya Kopytman participated in the panel discussion, “Designers Without Borders,” at the New York Institute of Technology. Along with five other panelists, including Matteo Bologna, Roberto de Vicq, Carole Goodman, Pablo A. Medina, and Takaaki Matsumoto, she discussed how influential cultural backgrounds are in design, particularly in the globalized world we live in today. In her presentation, Maya hopped four continents, discussing the various locations that impacted her youth, education, and profession.
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Yesterday, partner Jonathan Alger participated in a panel discussion at the final senior review of the undergraduate Design + Management department at Parsons The New School for Design. Chaired by the recently-appointed Dean of Parsons, Joel Towers, the panel discussion on the future of the profession and the department also included Businessweek innovation writer Bruce Nussbaum, New School General Counsel Roy Moskowitz, and Parsons alumna Ashley Melisse Abess from fashion house Chris Benz. Jonathan has also been an adjunct faculty member at Parsons in the past. Congratulations to the new graduates, parents, friends, and faculty.