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.
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.
Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture presents 45 works from concept through construction, demonstrating the challenges and merits of wood buildings through essays, technical drawings, and photographs. This work continues on learnings presented in Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture as it traces Ban’s contributions to the evolution of mass timber as a commercially viable, highly competitive structural solution in a variety of forms.
BeHere / 1942 is the companion book to media artist Masaki Fujihata’s project and exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum reframing the historic forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II through photographic detective work and re-examination through augmented reality. This volume contains a variety of contributions each of which engages with the history of the incarceration and its representation in photographs and exhibitions.
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.
