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.
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.
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.
