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 Art of the Benshi World Tour, presented by the Yanai Initiative and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, brings the rare, century-old Japanese cinematic tradition back to live audiences. The tour travels to New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Provo, and Santa Barbara.
Now Instant is a hyper-curated microcinema, bookstore, and cultural space located in Los Angeles’ Chinatown. Growing out of 2017 backyard screenings in Highland Park and an earlier space on York Blvd, the fall 2026 reopening in Chinatown was a highly anticipated moment for the city’s underground film scene.
The Design Media Arts program at UCLA has led the field in computational art and design since the 1990s, shaping how artists use and think about emerging technologies. The website highlights student and alumni activity while supporting department operations and acting as a repository for its lectures and programming.
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.
Website for Machine Project, a Los Angeles-based collective for experimental art and performance. Reflects the organization’s informal and eclectic spirit through a flexible, image-led structure documenting events and workshops. Visit site ⎘
A rigorous two-year program, the Design Media Arts MFA at UCLA focuses on the individual development of each candidate’s personal art practice in the context of media arts. The entry guide is a stripped down, sequential breakdown of the program’s intent and history supplemented by examples and resources from faculty and alumni.
