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.
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.
TW 82: Taiwanese Cinema Since 1982 is a screening organized and hosted at the studio by Lauren Graycar and Nathan Rickard. The poster features stills from seminal films A Brighter Summer Day by Edward Yang and Goodbye South, Goodbye by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
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.
Second issue of Ed, Archinect’s print magazine. Brings together texts and projects examining the disasters shaping contemporary life and architecture’s position within them. Rather than proposing solutions, the issue reflects on responsibility, uncertainty, and the discipline’s entanglement in the crises it seeks to address. More info ⎘
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.
