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.
Memory Landscapes presents a body of work developed by Robert Hutchison Architecture across decades, addressing the seawalls built along Japan’s Tohoku coast after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. These proposals, which include contributions from Hutchison’s firm along with Japanese architects, artists, and community members, consider how collective memory might inform the future of fishing communities these walls protect while at the same time separating them from the sea.
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.
The Summer 2026 issue of the magazine features Minor White’s Two Waves and Pitted Rock on its cover highlighting PUAM’s summer exhibition Photography as a Way of Life. The show examines the overlapping careers of Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan who redefined photography in the mid-twentieth century.
Annual report for a year that featured a Naruse Mikio retrospective, The Art of the Benshi world tour, Bungaku Bideo literary animation series, English-language nō performances, Japanese Materials Digitization Project, Japan Past & Present, emerging literary translator mentorships, and Strangers Press’s Kanata translation series.
Post Human documents the 2024 revival of Jeffrey Deitch’s foundational 1992 exhibition. The original exhibition featured thirty-six artists working at the intersection of the body and technology and helped set the agenda for 1990s art discourse. The 2024 exhibition brings original participants into dial ogue with a new generation, expanding the discussion to contemporary concepts of technology and the body.
The Spring 2026 issue of the magazine features Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50, with an archival photograph of the artist in his studio on the cover. The show exhibits 18 tightly selected masterworks sourced from more than a dozen prestigious museums and private collections, looking at the 5-year window where de Kooning formulated the visual language that would define his entire career.
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.
Renaissance: A New Museum for Princeton marks the completion and reopening of the new Princeton University Art Museum. Shot in its final year of construction, Richard Barnes’s photographs show the building across changing seasons and in relation to the surrounding campus. An essay by museum director James Christen Steward along with contributions by Paul Goldberger, Ron McCoy, Mark Stevens, and Susan Stewart contextualize the project within Princeton’s unique architectural history and the museum’s significance in campus life.
Made in L.A. 2025 is the catalog for the Hammer Museum’s seventh iteration of its signature showcase for Los Angeles contemporary art, spotlighting emerging and under-recognized local practitioners. Conceived as a reader rather than a direct documentation of the exhibition, conversations with the artists and supporting artwork are gathered in a compact paperback, with its construction and materials gesturing toward the streets of Los Angeles.
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.
The creative practice of sisters Kimberly and Nancy Wu, Building Block is the influential, Los Angeles-based accessories brand merging industrial design principles with fashion. Their practice is defined by products which fit together as part of an enduring, cohesive visual language rather than in rapid-fire seasons.
The World of the Benshi is a companion volume to the Art of the Benshi world tour organized by the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. The book features more than 300 rare images compiled from archives and private collections around the world, showcasing historic movie theaters, promotional materials, and rare film stills. Essays uncover the phenomenon of the benshi stardom, evolution of the theater architecture, how live performance changed in Japan in the silent film era.
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.
GALLERYPLATFORM.LA is a project of Gallery Association Los Angeles, GA(LA), created to serve the dynamic Los Angeles art community with exhibition and event information and original editorial content.
Sponge Park: Gowanus Canal is an in-depth case study and blueprint for modern green infrastructure. Presented by the park's co-designer, Susannah C. Drake, the project serves as the blueprint for “Sponge Cities,” shifting away from traditional concrete sewer systems toward more natural, permeable right-of-way designs. Photographs, plans, and diagrams trace the project from the canal’s industrial history through its built pilot and its broader use as a repeatable model for remediation.
Luncheons on the Grass: Reimagining Manet's Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe is a compact art book presented as a follow up to the exhibition Luncheon on the Grass at Jeffrey Deitch. The gallery invited 35 contemporary artists to respond to Édouard Manet’s provocative 1863 masterpiece. The book features full-page plates of the commissioned artworks and distinct typography choices for the artist interviews, historical essays, and archival imagery.
Revitalizing Japan: Architecture, Community, Territory is a follow up to Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World. Instead of focusing on hyper-dense metropolitan centers like Tokyo, the book takes a closer look at regional towns and how a younger generation of Japanese architects is responding to the country's severe rural depopulation, aging society, and economic degrowth.
Gallery 98 is an active online archive for curator Marc H. Miller’s collection of arts ephemera from the 1960s–1990s, centered around his long involvement in the New York art world. The collection catalogs thousands of items across announcement cards, posters, and publications connected through artists, galleries, nightclubs, and themes, while retaining the hand-built nature of Miller’s practice.
The Carnegie Museum of Art is the first museum in the United States dedicated to collecting art of its times. In other words, it’s the first museum dedicated to contemporary art. The website features an expressive typography forward approach which maintains its legibility through a robust and modular design system, and is reflected in its data model and backend user experience.
Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World is a collection of investigations conducted by the Japan Research Initiative at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The book investigates scenarios, discusses strategies, and proposes how Tokyo can remain an inclusive, shared city amid rapid demographic decline, aging, and corporate-driven development.
Now Instant is a hyper-curated microcinema, bookstore, and cultural space located in Los Angeles’ Chinatown. Growing out of 2017 backyard screenings in Highland Park and an earlier space on York Blvd, the fall 2026 reopening in Chinatown was a highly anticipated moment for the city’s underground film scene.
The Design Media Arts program at UCLA has led the field in computational art and design since the 1990s, shaping how artists use and think about emerging technologies. The website highlights student and alumni activity while supporting department operations and acting as a repository for its lectures and programming.
Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture presents 45 works from concept through construction, demonstrating the challenges and merits of wood buildings through essays, technical drawings, and photographs. This work continues on learnings presented in Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture as it traces Ban’s contributions to the evolution of mass timber as a commercially viable, highly competitive structural solution in a variety of forms.
BeHere / 1942 is the companion book to media artist Masaki Fujihata’s project and exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum reframing the historic forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II through photographic detective work and re-examination through augmented reality. This volume contains a variety of contributions each of which engages with the history of the incarceration and its representation in photographs and exhibitions.
A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention is the companion publication to the exhibition presented by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The reader, published in both French and English, brings projects presented in the show into contact with critical essays by sociologists, technologists, and cultural critics diagnosing the meta-societal landscapes on which the architecture intervenes.
Japan Story is an academic research platform and course at Harvard GSD originating from a series of intense, high-profile symposiums and interdisciplinary panel discussions centered around urbanization and the future of the city. The project follows distinct threads of pedagogy, conversations, drawings, translated texts, literature, visual culture, critical essays, and music.
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.
Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s is the exhibition catalog for the landmark two-part exhibition curated by Mika Yoshitake at Blum & Poe. It is a definitive English-language primer and primary text for a largely undocumented period of Japanese art history, between the 1970s Mono-ha movement and the Neo-Pop era. The catalog features performance photography, installation shots, curatorial essays, socio-political analysis, textimonials, artist interviews, underground noise profiles, and music ephemera.
Maison D’art Los Angeles is a distinct contemporary art gallery housed inside a 1928 Greek Revival-style building on Melrose. The gallery specializes in a carefully curated historical and contemporary art program, hosting standout exhibitions spotlighting major artists such as William L. Hawkins, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Man Ray.
New Images of Man is both a tribute to and a radical revision of Peter Selz’s controversial 1959 exhibition of the same name at MoMA New York. The show pushes against the homogeneity of the original, asking what figurative art means when freed from midcentury Western gatekeeping. The catalog doubles down on the self-referential nature of the show using Dave Muller’s massive wall painting of Selz’s original 1959 book cover as its own.
An online platform developed for the Gallery Association Los Angeles during the city’s gallery shutdowns in 2020. The website presents weekly viewing rooms and curated projects, sustaining a shared presence for Los Angeles galleries when in-person exhibitions were paused.
dublab is the pioneering, non-profit community radio station and cultural institution in Los Angeles founded in 1999. Future Roots Radio connects music of the past as the foundation for today, and today’s music as the roots of tomorrow. The website is an internet checkpoint in LA featuring live broadcasts and the foundation‘s broadcast archive in full.
Third issue of Ed, Archinect’s print magazine. Brings together essays and visual contributions questioning the norms that shape architectural practice and its institutions, and proposing alternative frameworks for how architecture relates to labor, bodies, and social structures. More info ⎘
Bloomberg Businessweek’s special “Elements” issue is themed around the 150th anniversary of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table—using it as a lens through which to examine supply chain vulnerabilities, national security, climate change, and the physical limits of the digital age. Stories feature Apple, Boeing, De Beers, Green Science Policy Institute, Greenland Minerals Ltd., Helium One, Jacobsen Salt Co., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and many more.
Monkeypaw Productions, founded by Jordan Peele, reshaped modern genre storytelling by merging high-concept horror, sci-fi, and satire with deep explorations of race, class, and social politics.
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.
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.
Art in the Streets is the landmark exhibition held at MOCA LA in 2011. It was the first comprehensive American museum retrospective to chart the history, evolution, and global footprint of graffiti and street art. The website acts as a permanent digital time capsule that preserves the artwork, source materials, artist essays and interviews, as well as the massive public reaction to the show.
Archive website for Takachizu, takara (treasure) + chizu (map), a community mapping project organized by Little Tokyo Service Center. Residents contributed objects of personal and historical significance to document what Little Tokyo holds and wants to protect. Visit site ⎘
Inaugural issue of Ed, Archinect’s print magazine. Examines how architecture operates within broader social, economic, and technological systems, and considers how the discipline might be reimagined through alternative frameworks of practice and thought. More info
Publication on Franklin Williams’s work from 1963 to 1973, produced for Parker Gallery. Highlights the artist’s distinctive approach to materials, pattern, and craft within the Bay Area art scene. More info ⎘
Online feature for Bloomberg Businessweek visualizing the global supply chain behind Apple’s iPhone. Illustrates where materials originate, how they’re assembled, and the economic systems that sustain their production. Read online ⎘
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.
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 ⎘
Seasonal newsletter for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Features essays, interviews, and illustrations exploring unexpected aspects of the city’s built environment.
Website for East of Borneo, a collaborative online magazine dedicated to contemporary art and its history in Los Angeles. Hosts essays, interviews, and an open-access archive of images and documents contributed by the public. Visit site ⎘
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 ⎘
Book for the David Lynch Foundation featuring essays and interviews on the role of music in David Lynch’s creative practice. Published as a companion to The Music of David Lynch concert event, connecting his work in film and sound through conversation, archival materials, and performance. More info ⎘
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.
Application website for Red Bull Music Academy 2016 in Montreal. Introduced the program’s workshops and global network with a playful landing page designed as a soundboard interface. Archived site
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.
Website for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Highlights upcoming events and provides access to the organization’s publication archive through a structure designed for intuitive browsing.
Website for Machine Project, a Los Angeles-based collective for experimental art and performance. Reflects the organization’s informal and eclectic spirit through a flexible, image-led structure documenting events and workshops. Visit site ⎘
Book for Project X featuring forty-five Los Angeles artists, each invited to write about another’s work. The publication reflects the city’s overlapping creative communities through a chain of peer-to-peer portraits. More info ⎘
Pulling from a bank of over 700 carefully curated images including album covers, found footage, and original content, Endless 80s NYC explores ten of the most influential New York record labels from the 80s and pays homage to the vibrant energy and blending of cultures that took place in the city during that decade. Awards: 11th Macau Design Biennial, 2018.
A rigorous two-year program, the Design Media Arts MFA at UCLA focuses on the individual development of each candidate’s personal art practice in the context of media arts. The entry guide is a stripped down, sequential breakdown of the program’s intent and history supplemented by examples and resources from faculty and alumni.
Website for X-TRA, the Los Angeles–based contemporary art quarterly. Hosts an eighteen-year archive of print issues, reviews, and artist writings. The site was later redesigned by the studio in 2018.
Anthology of the first one hundred books from Informational Affairs, the studio’s ongoing collection of found and secondhand books. Documents the project’s early focus on publishing, collecting, and design as forms of research.
