Jonathan Alger

I am an exhibit designer and museum planner. I design and plan exhibits, museums, environments and interactive experiences and I love it. I have been a working designer for over 20 years, originally trained in architecture, graphic design and theater. I am a museum professional, inside the museum world but outside any one museum. I hope this site will help others follow a similar path and learn more about the field.

My days are spent working as a founding partner of C&G Partners, an award-winning interdisciplinary design firm in New York City, alongside my excellent partners and colleagues. I have been national President of SEGD, the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, and taught exhibit design at Parsons, the New School of Design.

I am defined by my clients. And vice-versa. I am thankful to have won the trust of some terrific clients over the years. I have helped create experiences for the National Museum of American History, the Holocaust Museum, the Japanese-American National Museum, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the Museum of American Finance and many others. The Star-Spangled Banner exhibit, a project I worked on that was the centerpiece of the recently renovated National Museum of American History, just saw 4,000,000 visitors in its first year of operation.

Much of my career has been spent designing museumless projects. Like me, these are museum-like, but outside museums. These are places like Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, seen by millions of people every year; the Federal Reserve Bank; the Bronx Zoo; the Voice of America studio and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Other past museumless clients of mine include the American Institute of Architects, American Express, Nasdaq, Sports Illustrated, USAID, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.