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 World of the Benshi is a companion volume to the Art of the Benshi world tour organized by the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. The book features more than 300 rare images compiled from archives and private collections around the world, showcasing historic movie theaters, promotional materials, and rare film stills. Essays uncover the phenomenon of the benshi stardom, evolution of the theater architecture, how live performance changed in Japan in the silent film era.
X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, the longest running LA art journal, ended its run in Spring 2024 after 26 years of publishing. The website houses a complete catalog of essays, reviews, interviews, and artist projects into a reading environment organized by issue, contributor, and series. Built to support ongoing publishing alongside the back catalogue, it continues as a free archive following the journal’s closure.
Ghostly International is a pioneering American independent record label and art company founded in 1999, merging boundary-pushing music with museum-grade graphic design and curated objects. The website is a full-featured web store and online archive, documenting it’s historic run and broad influence across genres.
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 ⎘
