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.
A singular figure in twentieth-century architecture, Paul R. Williams (1894–1980) transformed both the architectural profession and the built environment of his native Southern California in a career that spanned from the 1910s to the early 1970s. The most prominent Black American architect of his era, Williams succeeded despite systemic racism, diversifying the public face of the profession and inspiring future generations.
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.
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.