A glimpse inside The Essential Robert Indiana.
Advance copy of the The Essential Robert Indiana, designed by Fold Four for Delmonico • Prestel and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The opening of the exhibition has been postponed until February 14, 2014.
Jasper Johns: Gray, designed by Fold Four for the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, spotted on an end table in the latest CB2 catalog. Thanks to Sarah for the tip!
Detail of Impressionists on the Water dust jacket with foil stamped title on textured stock.
Choosing and pairing binding materials is one fun aspect of designing books!
Building some Donald Judd inspired work tables for the new studio.
Fold Four has moved to Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.
Cover of “Dreams & Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection,” designed by Fold Four for the Art Institute of Chicago.
Chainsaws and robots!
Gary Baseman: The Door is Always Open, designed by Fold Four for Rizzoli, and now available for pre-order on amazon.com. The exhibition of the same title opens April 25th at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
Erik Parker: Colorful Resistance, designed by Fold Four for The Aldrich Museum and Rizzoli, was named one of the “best art books of 2012” by the Huffington Post!
Check out the updated Fold Four website, including new book projects for the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Title page of Impressionists on the Water, designed by Fold Four for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Rizzoli.
Proofs for the Robert Indiana catalogue.
Cover proofs for the Gary Baseman catalogue. Matte laminated, paper-over-board covers with a printed, imitation cloth spine.
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, designed by Fold Four for the Art Institute of Chicago, was selected as one of the year’s best gift books in the current issue of Time magazine!
Cover mock-up for the Abelardo Morell catalogue, designed by Fold Four for the Art Institute of Chicago.
“Balancing Blocks” by Part & Parcel.
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, on view now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue designed by Fold Four.
Fold Four is working with artist Gary Baseman on the catalogue that will accompany his upcoming retrospective at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
My skateboard lamp made it on the news! (Thanks to Bruce for the tip!)
Wall rack for my new ride.
I was recently invited by the AIGA St Louis to participate in one of their “Design for a Cause” events. Blank skateboard decks were provided to artists, designers, and illustrators, with instructions to intervene as we saw fit. The finished pieces will be auctioned off at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, with all proceeds going to their youth education programs.
As opposed to applying something graphic to the deck, I wanted to manipulate the material itself. Thus, the skateboard was broken down and reassembled into a wall hanging lamp.
The finished bed.
About
Roy Brooks operates the graphic design studio Fold Four. He has over fifteen years of professional experience designing books, identities, websites, and related ephemera for institutional and commercial clients nationwide.
Brooks studied graphic design at North Carolina State University. Upon graduation he spent four years in New York City, working first at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and later for the international design consultancy Pentagram. The following four years were spent in Chicago working under the moniker Field Study. Brooks now resides in Milwaukee and continues working with both local and long distance clients, primarily in the cultural sector.
Brooks was selected as one of the "100 most significant" graphic designers in Area, a curated international survey of contemporary graphic designers, and was featured in the exhibition Young Chicago at the Art Institute of Chicago. Current clients include the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Unconventional thinking and a rigorous pursuit of typographic refinement and expression are Roy Brooks' hallmarks. Joe Rosa, Young Chicago exhibition catalogue
Contact
Fold Four, Inc.
The Office of Roy Brooks
338 N. Milwaukee St.Suite 308
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 431—8376 phone
info-(at)-foldfour.com
WEBSITE CREDITS
Design: Fold Four
Development: Scuffedshoe Interactive
Books
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Gary Baseman:
The Door is Always Open
Skira Rizzoli -
Regarding Warhol:
Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity
The Art Institute of Chicago -
Erik Parker:
Colorful Resistance
Skira Rizzoli
The Aldrich Museum -
Quay Brothers
The Museum of Modern Art -
Seven Americans
Bruce Silverstein Gallery -
Roy Lichtenstein:
A Retrospective
The Art Institute of Chicago -
Self Reflections:
The Expressionist Origins
of Lisette Model
Bruce Silverstein Gallery -
Re: Chicago
The DePaul Art Museum -
Rob Fischer
Whitney Museum of American Art -
Vincent van Gogh:
The Starry Night
The Museum of Modern Art -
Inside North Korea
Chronicle Books -
Maria Pergay:
Between Ideas & Design
Demisch Danant -
Cy Twombly:
The Natural World
The Art Institute of Chicago -
Tim Burton
The Museum of Modern Art -
Diane Simpson: Sculpture + Drawings 1978-2009
Diane Simpson / The Chicago Cultural Center -
Alexander Calder
and Contemporary Art:
Form, Balance, Joy
MCA Chicago -
Karl Wirsum:
Winsome Works(some)
The Chicago Cultural Center -
Jasper Johns: Gray
The Art Institute of Chicago