Folder designs interfaces, publications, and systems for organizing, encountering, and carrying information forward. We help museums, universities, civic institutions, and others engaged in the stewardship and sharing of knowledge create ways for language, media, and material to surface and endure.
We are interested in what happens to information over time, and how form can reveal the connections that give it meaning. Projects come in a variety of configurations rooted in partnerships that honor the material and its strategic presentation.
The Mohn Art Collective (MAC3) is a joint museum partnership established by the Hammer Museum, MOCA, and LACMA to acquire and share contemporary art by Los Angeles-based artists. Beyond just buying art, MAC3 funds professional curator visits to local studios and supports a robust ecosystem for emerging, underrepresented, and established Southern California artists.
Finely produced in limited quantities, this hand scroll was created for supporters of Masaki Fujhata’s BeHere / 1942 project. The makimono features an extended print of the augmented reality artwork showing Japanese Americans in line with their belongings, boarding buses bound for internment camps.
Hand-screened artist edition long-sleeve mockneck, featuring a kimono belonging to Takumi’s grandmother, an odori master. The pale pattern printed across the garment resembles sunlight filtered through foliage and screens.
The Canadian Centre for Architecture’s contribution to Arts of the Working Class as part of the German Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. The timeline introduces upcoming themes and programs the CCA is slated to explore in the upcoming decade.
Limited edition toothbrush designed in celebration of ABC Dinamo’s 10 year anniversary. Dinamo invited 10 graphic designers, studios, and artists from their creative community to express themselves on a tiny canvas. The slogan draws a parallel between maintaining oral hygiene and the daily repetition required to run a creative practice.
dublab is the pioneering, non-profit community radio station and cultural institution in Los Angeles founded in 1999. Future Roots Radio connects music of the past as the foundation for today, and today’s music as the roots of tomorrow. The website is an internet checkpoint in LA featuring live broadcasts and the foundation‘s broadcast archive in full.
Corners Studio, a risograph house in Korea, asked an international group of friends and collaborators to design artist edition posters to commemorate their new 4-color A2 machine. Our print is an homage to Little Tokyo Galleria in Los Angeles, titled Osaka Bay Blues for a karaoke classic.
Book featuring spreads from Informational Affairs, the studio’s ongoing collection of found books. Produced for By the Books, an exhibition organized by AXAXAXA in Vevey, Switzerland.
Newsprint publication for Google Design featuring fifty books sourced from used bookstores across Los Angeles. Produced for SPAN 2016 Los Angeles as part of the studio’s ongoing Informational Affairs series, the selection reflects the city’s layered design culture through its printed matter. More info ⎘
Book for the David Lynch Foundation featuring essays and interviews on the role of music in David Lynch’s creative practice. Published as a companion to The Music of David Lynch concert event, connecting his work in film and sound through conversation, archival materials, and performance. More info ⎘
