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.
A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention is the companion publication to the exhibition presented by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The reader, published in both French and English, brings projects presented in the show into contact with critical essays by sociologists, technologists, and cultural critics diagnosing the meta-societal landscapes on which the architecture intervenes.
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.
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.
Website for East of Borneo, a collaborative online magazine dedicated to contemporary art and its history in Los Angeles. Hosts essays, interviews, and an open-access archive of images and documents contributed by the public. Visit site ⎘
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 ⎘
Book for the David Lynch Foundation featuring essays and interviews on the role of music in David Lynch’s creative practice. Published as a companion to The Music of David Lynch concert event, connecting his work in film and sound through conversation, archival materials, and performance. More info ⎘
