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.
Hosted at UCLA, Experimental Translations in/with East Asian Languages was a translingual laboratory challenging Eurocentric models by exploring East Asian translation through visual poetics, media materiality, and radical creative formats. The word “translation,” in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, is built as one wood-joined object, shown from five angles as it moves between the three scripts.
The Art Parade is a large-scale public celebration marking the opening of the David Geffen Galleries. Conceived two decades ago by influential art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch, this Los Angeles edition marks a pivotal moment in LACMA's history and for the city itself.
The Mohn Art Collective (MAC3) is a joint museum partnership established by the Hammer Museum, MOCA, and LACMA to acquire and share contemporary art by Los Angeles-based artists. Beyond just buying art, MAC3 funds professional curator visits to local studios and supports a robust ecosystem for emerging, underrepresented, and established Southern California artists.
Limited-edition exhibition zine for Ryan McGinley’s first solo show in nearly a decade. Shot exclusively from Sunday through Tuesday between 9 pm and 5 am across all five boroughs of New York City during a self-imposed graveyard shift.
CCA’s 2026 holiday card features Andy Lu Lee’s American Remediation, uncovering how the state used the illusion of scientific neutrality to legitimize territorial expansion. The exhibition subverts Cold War-era propaganda by physically tracing a decaying archival film along the global pathways of its circulation and consequence.
The 1871 Memorial Project supports the construction of a physical memorial near the Chinese American Museum to honor the victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre. The project comes out of an open call from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Artist Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong and writer Judy Chui-Hua Chung’s design centers around guardian banyan trees in Sze Yup (四邑) where the first waves of Chinese immigrants to the United States originate.
Originally run from a five-room historic Tudor home, Parker Gallery moved operations to a classic mid-century commercial structure on Melrose Blvd to provide artists with a more accessible, public-facing platform. The gallery is known for its focus on exhibitions which champion under-recognized artists with unique roots.
Limited-edition exhibition booklet for Sharif Farrag’s Hybrid Moments serving as an intimate guidebook to the artist’s background and visual language. The dictionary is adapted from Farrag’s MFA thesis at UCLA, which he treats as an evolving real-time record of his perspectives.
Bungaku Bideo is a film series bringing together films rooted in literature, moving poetry exploring the relationship between cinematic and written form. The initiative partnered with acclaimed independent animators and contemporary writers to introduce Japanese prose and poetry to international film festival audiences.
The Art of the Benshi World Tour, presented by the Yanai Initiative and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, brings the rare, century-old Japanese cinematic tradition back to live audiences. The tour travels to New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Provo, and Santa Barbara.
Finely produced in limited quantities, this hand scroll was created for supporters of Masaki Fujhata’s BeHere / 1942 project. The makimono features an extended print of the augmented reality artwork showing Japanese Americans in line with their belongings, boarding buses bound for internment camps.
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.
Japan Past & Present (JPP) is a global information hub and digital repository created to promote research, teaching, and collaboration in Japanese humanities. The initiative provides and presents grant opportunities, digital projects, global networks, educational resources, student workshops, institutional partnerships, researcher directories, and translation databases.
Hand-screened artist edition long-sleeve mockneck, featuring a kimono belonging to Takumi’s grandmother, an odori master. The pale pattern printed across the garment resembles sunlight filtered through foliage and screens.
Catching Up With Life is a year-long, institution-wide research investigation launched in March 2021 by the CCA, culminating in the exhibition A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention. The multi-platform investigation took place through distinct physical, digital, and broadcast channels including online editorials, live-streamed public programs, documentary filmmaking, audio podcasting, and social media pilots.
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.
Limited edition zine and exhibition poster for Mark Grotjahn’s Backcountry exhibition at Blum & Poe. The zine documents Grotjahn’s time cross country skiing in the Colorado wilderness through his intricate, hand written journals and various impromptu phone snaps.
The Canadian Centre for Architecture’s contribution to Arts of the Working Class as part of the German Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. The timeline introduces upcoming themes and programs the CCA is slated to explore in the upcoming decade.
Limited edition toothbrush designed in celebration of ABC Dinamo’s 10 year anniversary. Dinamo invited 10 graphic designers, studios, and artists from their creative community to express themselves on a tiny canvas. The slogan draws a parallel between maintaining oral hygiene and the daily repetition required to run a creative practice.
Corners Studio, a risograph house in Korea, asked an international group of friends and collaborators to design artist edition posters to commemorate their new 4-color A2 machine. Our print is an homage to Little Tokyo Galleria in Los Angeles, titled Osaka Bay Blues for a karaoke classic.
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.
Book featuring spreads from Informational Affairs, the studio’s ongoing collection of found books. Produced for By the Books, an exhibition organized by AXAXAXA in Vevey, Switzerland.
Newsprint publication for Google Design featuring fifty books sourced from used bookstores across Los Angeles. Produced for SPAN 2016 Los Angeles as part of the studio’s ongoing Informational Affairs series, the selection reflects the city’s layered design culture through its printed matter. More info ⎘
Posters, postcards, and digital materials for the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA Lecture Series. A modular system of shapes and typography allows each poster to shift in tone, from abstract to technical, while maintaining a unified structure across the series.
