Folder Dev
Design and strategy for museums, research collections, schools, and galleries. We aim to make work that is of the material. Our approach is grounded in what institutions present, preserve, and come to know over time. The work finds the structures already present and gives them clearer form—accentuating the beauty that’s already there.
1510 Oxley Street
Suite A & B
South Pasadena, CA 91030
For new inquiries please email: super@folderstudio.com
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Select Clients (2013–present)
Arts & Culture:
Blum Gallery
Carnegie Museum of Art
David Lynch Foundation
David Kordansky Gallery
Doug Aitken Workshop
Gallery Association Los Angeles
Hammer Museum
Japanese American National Museum
Jeffrey Deitch
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Maison d‘Art
Mohn Art Collective
Princeton University Art Museum
Parker Gallery
Education & Research:
ArtCenter College of Design
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Processing Foundation
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
University of Southern California (USC)
Waseda University
Editorial & Publishing:
Actar Publishers
Ailouros Editions
Bloomberg Businessweek
East of Borneo
Hat & Beard Press
Monacelli
ORO Editions
Park Books
Rizzoli New York
Skira
Spector Books
X-TRA Contemporary Arts Quarterly
Civic & Community:
1871 Memorial Project
Dublab
Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
L.A. Forum for Architecture & Urban Design
Little Tokyo Service Center
Yanai Initiative
Design & Architecture:
Architect
Ghostly International
Google Design
Morphosis Architects
Red Bull Music Academy
Shigeru Ban Architects
Studio Building Block
Studio Personnel
Founded in Los Angeles, 2013, by Jon Gacnik, Takumi Akin, and Wesley Chou.
Contributors & Collaborators:
Adam Ferriss
Alan Woo
Albert Lee
Austin Redman
Ben Schwartz
Carina Huynh
Chris Behr
Connie Chang
Ella Gold
Erin Keeffe
Eva Sealove
Gleb Denisov
Irene Wiryanto
Jack Burnside
Jenny Hirons
Jon-Kyle Mohr
Jun Lin
Marija Radisavljevic
Melia Tandiono
Mitchell Barton
Michelle Lin
Mimi Tang
Nancy Wu
Nathan Rickard
Omar Mohammad
Richard Caceres
Sara Mon
Seth Thompson
Taylor Giali
Yeun Kim
Wilm Thoben
Client Contacts
Technical support:
dev@folderstudio.com
Print production:
art@folderstudio.com
Internships & Employment
Please send proposals to:
inbox@folderstudio.com
Press & Awards
- D&AD Shortlist, Made in L.A. 2025, Book Design (2026)
- Book Launch: Post Human, with Jeff Koons, Jamian Juliano-Villani and Jeffrey Deitch, New Museum, New York (2026)
- “Process in Practice,” Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York (2025)
- Feature, Haw-Lin Magazine Issue 01 (2024)
- AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers, "Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture" (2023)
- Fast Company: The Carnegie Museum of Art's new logo is designed to be anti-elitist (2023)
- It's Nice That: Carnegie Museum of Art's new look is built on an approachable typeface (2023)
- Designboom: Shigeru Ban's latest book celebrates timber in architecture (2023)
- A Section of Now, Canadian Centre for Architecture, presented at Home Sweet Home, Triennale di Milano (2023)
- UCLA Newsroom: Augmented reality exhibition places viewers in midst of WWII-era forced removal of Japanese Americans (2022)
- Canadian Architect: The CCA presents A Section of Now (2021)
- Architect's Newspaper: A Section of Now at the Canadian Centre for Architecture surveys contemporary life (2021)
- Rice Design Alliance: What Is Design If Not Humanity Persevering? (2021)
- D&AD Pencil, Bloomberg Businessweek: The Elements, Graphic Design (2020)
- Hyperallergic: 80 LA Galleries Band Together In an Effort to Survive the Pandemic (2020)
- Feature, Slanted Magazine #35 — L.A. (2020)
- MIT Docubase: K-Town '92 (2019)
- Walker Art Center: Into the Archives: An Interview with Folder Studio (2018)
- 11th Macau Design Biennial, K-Town '92 (2018)
- 11th Macau Design Biennial, Endless 80s (2018)
- It's Nice That: Folder Studio's interactive documentaryK-Town '92 (2018)
- It's Nice That: Folder Studio creates an evolving archive documenting the life of 2Pac (2016)
- Feature, Google SPAN Reader: Volume 2, Google Design (2016)
Community
Classes:
MFA Final Thesis at Otis College of Art & Design (Los Angeles, California)
Design for the Web at UCLA Design Media Arts (Los Angeles, California)
Workshops:
ANTI-ANTI-ALIASING at RISD (Providence, Rhode Island)
ASCII Town at A-B-Z-TXT at Gallery 44 (Toronto, Ontario)
Local Area Network at A-B-Z-TXT at Inter/Access (Toronto, Ontario)
First Archival Club at Internet Archive, Prelinger Library (San Francisco, California)
Second Archival Club at Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, California)
Talks & Panels:
Design for Meaning at World IA Day at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California)
Flash Point at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs (Los Angeles, California)
Symboles at Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Quebec)
Guest Lectures:
Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, California)
Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
Temple University (Tokyo, Japan)
UCLA Design Media Arts (Los Angeles, California)
