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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
Masaki Fujihata’s multimedia project and exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum re-examines the Japanese American Incarceration through the lens of various media forms, from hyper-enlarged photographs to cutting-edge augmented reality technology, to help us see, in a new light, this dark moment in the history of Los Angeles, and of the United States.
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.
