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 Los Angeles County Museum of Art houses the largest museum collection in the western United States. The new online platform comprises of a cleanly rebuilt data endpoint paired with a restrained interface design that gives nuanced object records common structure while preserving distinctions in attribution, dating, and depth of scholarship.
Expanded from our previous work on Carnegie Museum of Art’s online catalogue, the collections website opens us closer study of the collection by connecting individual works with group records, exhibition histories, and associated texts. The collection’s development is more readily traced through museum programs including it’s growth through the Carnegie International, North America's longest-running recurring exhibition of international contemporary art.
Gallery Weekend Los Angeles is an inclusive community program presented annually by Gallery Association Los Angeles. The weekend connects audiences directly with the artists, curators, and gallerists through extended evening hours, and self-guided neighborhood maps—promoting unity in the gallery landscape and giving emerging and underrepresented venues equal visibility.
Archinect has served as a digital home and unfiltered pulse for the architecture community since 1997. Its jobs board is widely considered the go-to resource for on-the-ground information in the field. The visualizer flips the traditional job search on its head by presenting employers through their built work and design portfolios first, rather than walls of requirements.
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.
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 ⎘
Interactive platform for UCLA Architecture and Urban Design mapping the work of faculty and alumni around the world. Visualizes connections between research, practice, and geography across the department’s global network.
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 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.
