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 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.
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.
