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.
Renaissance: A New Museum for Princeton marks the completion and reopening of the new Princeton University Art Museum. Shot in its final year of construction, Richard Barnes’s photographs show the building across changing seasons and in relation to the surrounding campus. An essay by museum director James Christen Steward along with contributions by Paul Goldberger, Ron McCoy, Mark Stevens, and Susan Stewart contextualize the project within Princeton’s unique architectural history and the museum’s significance in campus life.
Made in L.A. 2025 is the catalog for the Hammer Museum’s seventh iteration of its signature showcase for Los Angeles contemporary art, spotlighting emerging and under-recognized local practitioners. Conceived as a reader rather than a direct documentation of the exhibition, conversations with the artists and supporting artwork are gathered in a compact paperback, with its construction and materials gesturing toward the streets of Los Angeles.
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.
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.