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.
Gallery 98 is an active online archive for curator Marc H. Miller’s collection of arts ephemera from the 1960s–1990s, centered around his long involvement in the New York art world. The collection catalogs thousands of items across announcement cards, posters, and publications connected through artists, galleries, nightclubs, and themes, while retaining the hand-built nature of Miller’s practice.
Japan Story is an academic research platform and course at Harvard GSD originating from a series of intense, high-profile symposiums and interdisciplinary panel discussions centered around urbanization and the future of the city. The project follows distinct threads of pedagogy, conversations, drawings, translated texts, literature, visual culture, critical essays, and music.
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.
X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, the longest running LA art journal, ended its run in Spring 2024 after 26 years of publishing. The website houses a complete catalog of essays, reviews, interviews, and artist projects into a reading environment organized by issue, contributor, and series. Built to support ongoing publishing alongside the back catalogue, it continues as a free archive following the journal’s closure.
Ghostly International is a pioneering American independent record label and art company founded in 1999, merging boundary-pushing music with museum-grade graphic design and curated objects. The website is a full-featured web store and online archive, documenting it’s historic run and broad influence across genres.
Building Block is an influential accessories brand applying industrial and architectural concepts to leather goods. Their aesthetic relies on clean, classic geometry paired with unexpected materials like rubber tubing and wood pieces. The website served as its online store until their closing in 2024, and now holds the complete product and collections archive.
Art in the Streets is the landmark exhibition held at MOCA LA in 2011. It was the first comprehensive American museum retrospective to chart the history, evolution, and global footprint of graffiti and street art. The website acts as a permanent digital time capsule that preserves the artwork, source materials, artist essays and interviews, as well as the massive public reaction to the show.
Archive website for Takachizu, takara (treasure) + chizu (map), a community mapping project organized by Little Tokyo Service Center. Residents contributed objects of personal and historical significance to document what Little Tokyo holds and wants to protect. Visit site ⎘
Interactive documentary directed by Grace Lee exploring the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. The website presents interviews, archival footage, and news coverage through an open structure that allows viewers to navigate overlapping perspectives across the city’s communities. Awards: 11th Macau Design Biennial, 2018. Watch online ⎘
Website for East of Borneo, a collaborative online magazine dedicated to contemporary art and its history in Los Angeles. Hosts essays, interviews, and an open-access archive of images and documents contributed by the public. Visit site ⎘
Fast paced album art guessing game featuring hundreds of iconic New York, electronic, hip-hop, and metal record sleeves. Guess correctly to top the leaderboards and reveal the history of the albums and their artwork. Sequels of the game were later developed for RBMA France, Germany, and Brazil.
Interactive website for Station to Station, Doug Aitken's 24-day train journey from New York to San Francisco, staging ten site-specific happenings across the country in September 2013.
Interactive project for Red Bull Music Academy created in collaboration with ten electronic artists. Features tracks built from mixable stems that shift in tempo and mood, paired with public-domain footage reflecting the emotional range of each composition.
Website for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Highlights upcoming events and provides access to the organization’s publication archive through a structure designed for intuitive browsing.
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 ⎘
Website for X-TRA, the Los Angeles–based contemporary art quarterly. Hosts an eighteen-year archive of print issues, reviews, and artist writings. The site was later redesigned by the studio in 2018.
