Fold Four is working with the Museum of Modern Art on the catalogue for their upcoming Quay Brothers exhibition and film retrospective. The book will be similar in size and scope to the Tim Burton publication I designed for MoMA several years ago.
This music video is one of several that the Quay Brothers made for His Name is Alive.
Mock-up of the Erik Parker monograph I’m designing for the Aldrich Museum and Rizzoli.
Ed Ruscha in his studio at 1024 3/4 N. Western Avenue in Hollywood, California, 1970. Image courtesy of Billy Al Bengston. Photo © Larry Bell. (source: www.getty.edu)
Liberty Tool. This place looks amazing. (via s2dio ordinary)
“FF”
5 x 7”; ink on laminated maple.
An attempt to demonstrate my simultaneous interest in graphic design, particularly typography, as well as traditionally built wooden forms.
Roy Lichtenstein’s Southampton studio. Photographs by Laurie Lambrecht.
Found type: a lovely script nameplate on a mid ’60s Chrysler New Yorker.
Text detail from the Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity catalogue for the Art Institute of Chicago. The design is currently being finalized, with mechanical files to follow.
Fold Four is working with the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Rizzoli on the design of painter Erik Parker’s first career retrospective catalogue.
Quick clamp rack made from shop scraps.
Charging station: dovetail cutting practice with some scraps of walnut.
General information brochure for the DePaul Art Museum; designed by Fold Four.
Designed by Fold Four. Developed by Scuffed Shoe Interactive.
A new company “devoted to transforming your community’s fallen or condemned trees into functional, beautiful products.”
Sam Maloof’s approach to design.
RE: CHICAGO exhibition catalogue, designed by Fold Four. On view at the DePaul Art Museum through March 4, 2012.
Self Reflections: The Expressionist Origins of Lisette Model, designed by Fold Four. On view September 22 through November 12 at Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City.
Michelle and I spent an incredible afternoon at the Nakashima compound a few years back. This video far surpasses my photos in conveying a sense of place. (Thanks to giant Cypress for the link!)
The finished tables.
Both of the tabletops are assembled and sanded… the pilot holes for the steel bases have been located and drilled… and the first coat of oil has been applied. A few more coats of finish and they’ll be ready for use… hopefully before the “official” end of summer.
The frustrating limitation of inkjet printing?… or the beauty of spot colors?
The latter, for sure!
Brooklyn, NY
Andy Goldsworthy’s Storm King Wall, which weaves along the edge of the forest, descends into a small lake and reemerges on the other side. The structure is almost half a mile long, and built with dry stacked stones like the traditional walls found across the English countryside.
Stream: A Folded Drawing, 2009-10, by Stephen Talasnik at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY.
Hudson, NY
About
Roy Brooks operates the graphic design studio Fold Four. He has over twelve 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
12213 West Harrison PlaceMilwaukee, WI 53227
(414) 431—8376 phone
(877) 349—4110 fax
WEBSITE CREDITS
Design: Fold Four
Development: Scuffedshoe Interactive
Books
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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