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.
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.
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.
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 ⎘
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.
