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.
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.
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
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 ⎘
Posters, postcards, and digital materials for the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA Lecture Series. A modular system of shapes and typography allows each poster to shift in tone, from abstract to technical, while maintaining a unified structure across the series.
