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.
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.
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 ⎘
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.
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.