BURNSIDE & SEIFER DESIGNERS AT LARGE CASE STUDY A LOCAL MUSEUM MAKES HISTORY “Chris Burnside & Reed Seifer are engaged designers who listen to what our goals are and are really interested in the work we do. Not only have they provided graphic design services but have suggested copywriting and ideas that take us to the next level. The branding they created for us, which has been carried across our major events and promotional materials, is now a recognizable—and beloved— symbol of the Society throughout the town and the region. B & S have also successfully brought a fresh perspective to our exhibit design while maintaining a sense of continuity across projects so that our signature style remains intact and we continue to capture our visitors’ interest and imagination with the presentation of history.” —Ramin Ganeshram EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT WESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS A CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PRESERVING, PRESENTING AND CELEBRATING THE HISTORY OF WESTPORT CONNECTICUT. PREVIOUS LOGO AN INCLUSIVE AND JOYOUS PRESENTATION FOR THE WINTER HOLIDAY EVENTS. d JOYOUS KWANZAA UMOJA LOVE KUJICHAGULIA LIGHT FELIZE NAVIDAD UJIMA UJAMAA NIA KUUMBAd ...................... PEACE HAPPY HANUKAH HAPPY DIWALI HAPPY YALDA MERRY CHRISTMAS ......................................d JOYEUX NOEL d HAPPY DONGZHI BUON NATALE JOY MULTI-CULTURAL AND KALEIDOSCOPIC TAKE ON "SEASON’S GREETINGS" USED IN THOUSANDS OF HOLIDAY MAILINGS AND IN ON-SITE SIGNAGE T P O S I C A L S O O R C R E T I E S T I Y H T W F I 9 R 1 S 0 T 2 L I L G VA H T F E S T I Keeping traditions alive THE OLD-TIME (OR TIMELESS) CHILDHOOD DELIGHT IN A SNOW GLOBE CAPTURED IN CONFETTI FOR FAMILY-FRIENDLY NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATIONS AT THE MUSEUM. T P O S A L R I C S O O C R E T I E S T I Y H T W Garden Celebration & Tour JUNE 8 & 9, 2019 FROM 10AM–4PM TICKETS AND MORE INFO AT WESTPORTHISTORY.ORG A SWATH OF FUCHSIA BLOOMS ABOUT TOWN IN POSTCARDS, BANNERS, AND ROAD-SIDE SIGNAGE SYNCHRONOUSLY TAKING INSPIRATION FROM THE MUCH BELOVED PEONIES FLOWERING THE SAME WEEK. PROMOTION FOR A RE-ENACTMENT OF A BATTLE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN WHICH MOST HOMES IN A NEIGHBORHOOD IN TOWN WERE BURNT TO THE GROUND BY THE BRITISH. A POLISHED IDENTITY FOR THE ANNUAL FUNDRAISING EVENT. PREVIOUS EVENT IDENTITY the o Ch t i e e l f A ! February 22, 2019 at 6pm NOT ONLY DID GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEEP IN WESTPORT ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS BUT HE ALSO IMBIBED THERE. THIS EVENT OFFERED INSIGHT INTO AND TASTINGS OF 18TH CENTURY- STYLE BREWS. THE OPTIMISM OF A BLUE SKY ALONGSIDE TYPOGRAPHY CULLED FROM THREE ERAS SETS THE TONE FOR AN EXHIBITION ENCOMPASSING HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF EMIGRATION TO TOWN. Fearless Émigré: War Correspondent Sigrid Schultz Sigrid Schultz was both a migrant and an immigrant. Born in Chicago in 1893, she moved to Germany with her family when she was eight years old, remaining in Europe for nearly forty years. She returned to America settling in Westport in 1941 where she lived the remainder of her life. Proficient at languages, she worked as an English language teacher in Berlin during World War I. In 1919 her hometown newspaper the Chicago Tribune sought a Sigrid Schultz correspondent fluent in both English and German. Shultz got the job, becoming the paper’s bureau chief for Central Europe—the first woman to hold Schultz sent her stories back to the Chicago Tribune via telegram. They that position for a major news service. detailed the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, yet some editors chose to downplay the danger she warned about the Third Reich. Credit: Westport Historical Society Archives “A second group termed by many as radicals insist on fulfillment of all points [of ] Hitler’s original program from smashing of Jews to nationalization of trusts…” —SIGRID SCHULTZ, January 1935 Schultz was stationed in Berlin where she Schultz intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Third witnessed the rise of the country’s National Reich proved invaluable to Washington. Socialism (Nazi) Party and was acutely aware of the danger the party and its leader, Adolf Hitler, posed to the world. Schultz developed an early acquaintance with Herman Göring, Hitler’s second-in-command and through this access to Göring—and Hitler himself—she was able to report in detail about Hitler’s plans for European domination and Jewish genocide. She filed her most sensitive stories from various European cities under a pseudonym so as not to jeopardize her entrée behind the scenes of the Third Reich. A masterful investigative reporter, Schultz’ dispatches provided critical intelligence about Germany’s wartime plans. Göring called Schultz “the dragon lady of Chicago” and attempted to eliminate her more than once. She left Germany after being injured in an Allied Air Raid on Berlin then went to Spain, ultimately returning home and settling in Westport. Although she attempted to return to Germany to continue her work, she was denied re-entry. Schultz accompanied Allied troops at the landing of Normandy and was one of the first journalists at the liberation of Buchenwald Despite warnings from reporters like Sigrid Schultz who had firsthand knowledge of the Nazi plan for Jewish extermination, Jewish refugees were denied entry to the United States for much of the war. The German ship concentration camp. She also reported on the MS St. Louis carried 900 refugees and was turned away from Miami in Schultz warned about the persistence of Nazi ideology in her articles 1939. The ship was forced to return to Germany where most of its would-be after the war. Credit: Newspapers.com American immigrants died in concentration camps. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals. ONE OF SEVERAL PANELS INSTALLED IN THE MUSEUM TELLING PEOPLE’S STORIES. Your generosity is appreciated! A WHIMSICAL AND GRATEFUL TWIST TO THE TOO OFTEN DRAB PRESENTATION OF SPONSOR’S LOGOS. THE PORT IS IN FACT IN THE WEST OF TOWN AND MANY HAVE ANCHORED THEIR HEARTS HERE. THIS SPIRITED DECLARATION IS REPRODUCED ON MUGS, T-SHIRTS, TOTE BAGS. LET US HELP YOU MAKE HISTORY WE ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR NEXT GRAPHIC IDENTITY, EXHIBITION DESIGN OR PUBLICATIONS ENDEAVOR [email protected] +1 (718) 916 3592 burnside-seifer.com BURNSIDE & SEIFER WESTPORT • SEATTLE.