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.
Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s is the exhibition catalog for the landmark two-part exhibition curated by Mika Yoshitake at Blum & Poe. It is a definitive English-language primer and primary text for a largely undocumented period of Japanese art history, between the 1970s Mono-ha movement and the Neo-Pop era. The catalog features performance photography, installation shots, curatorial essays, socio-political analysis, textimonials, artist interviews, underground noise profiles, and music ephemera.
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
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 ⎘
Book featuring spreads from Informational Affairs, the studio’s ongoing collection of found books. Produced for By the Books, an exhibition organized by AXAXAXA in Vevey, Switzerland.
Interactive documentary directed by Grace Lee exploring the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. The website presents interviews, archival footage, and news coverage through an open structure that allows viewers to navigate overlapping perspectives across the city’s communities. Awards: 11th Macau Design Biennial, 2018. Watch 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.
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.
