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.
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 ⎘
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.
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.