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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ⎘
