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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
Multivalent values of family, property ownership, activism, work, technology, and life expectations are mirrored through architectural postures in A Section of Now presented by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The exhibition brings together a highly ecumenical mix of architecture projects, documentary photography, pop-culture artifacts, and commercial products. The graphic design for the show reflects the corporate backdrop of the themes through logo-like supergraphics which read sharply while remaining formally vague enough to encompass conflicting propositions.
Catching Up With Life is a year-long, institution-wide research investigation launched in March 2021 by the CCA, culminating in the exhibition A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention. The multi-platform investigation took place through distinct physical, digital, and broadcast channels including online editorials, live-streamed public programs, documentary filmmaking, audio podcasting, and social media pilots.
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.
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.
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.
