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.
USC Arts Now breaks down traditional academic silos to ignite cross-disciplinary collaborations across the university's arts schools, museums, and global creative networks. Its programming brings artistic practice into dialogue with health sciences, computing, and climate research.
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.
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with the Civic Memory Group, issued an open, free-to-enter request for ideas for a physical monument addressing the largest mass killing of Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles history, an event that remained largely unacknowledged and fragmented for over 150 years.
Japan Past & Present (JPP) is a global information hub and digital repository created to promote research, teaching, and collaboration in Japanese humanities. The initiative provides and presents grant opportunities, digital projects, global networks, educational resources, student workshops, institutional partnerships, researcher directories, and translation databases.
Catching Up With Life is a year-long, institution-wide research investigation launched in March 2021 by the CCA, culminating in the exhibition A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention. The multi-platform investigation took place through distinct physical, digital, and broadcast channels including online editorials, live-streamed public programs, documentary filmmaking, audio podcasting, and social media pilots.
Application website for Red Bull Music Academy 2016 in Montreal. Introduced the program’s workshops and global network with a playful landing page designed as a soundboard interface. Archived site
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 ⎘
Posters, postcards, and digital materials for the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA Lecture Series. A modular system of shapes and typography allows each poster to shift in tone, from abstract to technical, while maintaining a unified structure across the series.
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.
