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.
Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture presents 45 works from concept through construction, demonstrating the challenges and merits of wood buildings through essays, technical drawings, and photographs. This work continues on learnings presented in Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture as it traces Ban’s contributions to the evolution of mass timber as a commercially viable, highly competitive structural solution in a variety of forms.
Maison D’art Los Angeles is a distinct contemporary art gallery housed inside a 1928 Greek Revival-style building on Melrose. The gallery specializes in a carefully curated historical and contemporary art program, hosting standout exhibitions spotlighting major artists such as William L. Hawkins, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Man Ray.