The same hand
wrote it, drew it,
scored it.
Folio is a one-person studio where illustration, prose, music, and design share the same desk — and the same sensibility. No handoffs. No translation loss.
Trusted by indie publishers, podcast producers, and small brands who want a single creative voice — not four freelancers who've never met.
The Cartographer's Daughter
Cover art for a debut literary novel from Meridian Press. The brief: a map that looks lived-in, not decorative. Three rounds of ink studies before the final piece was pulled from a single uninterrupted session. The author said it looked like she'd drawn it herself.
Client
Meridian Press
Year
2025
The Long Frequency
A serialized essay series for Wavelength Podcast — eight episodes, each one a standalone piece of narrative journalism that also functions as show notes. The host needed words that sounded like her voice, not a ghostwriter's. She reads them aloud now without a single edit.
Client
Wavelength Podcast
Year
2024
Two disciplines, one vision.
When the same hand writes the story and scores the film, nothing gets lost in translation. Drag the divider to see how the book cover and the trailer score were conceived as one object.
The Tidal Hours
Cover art — ink on paper
The Tidal Hours
Trailer score — orchestral arrangement
"Because I wrote the novel first, I knew which chord the protagonist hears in the final scene. No director had to explain it to me. It was already in the manuscript."
Cinder & Salt
Full brand identity and original theme music for an indie food podcast. Logo, type system, episode artwork templates, and a 90-second theme that opens cold — no voiceover, just sound — because the host wanted listeners to taste it before they heard a word. Downloads went up 34% the week the new theme launched.
Client
Cinder & Salt Podcast
Year
2025
Browse the Archive.
A downloadable zine — 28 pages of process photography, margin sketches, score excerpts, and the behind-the-scenes thinking that connects every discipline. Free. No email required.
Once a month, one of everything.
A sketch fresh from the notebook. A short essay on making things. One sound clip — could be 40 seconds of a score draft or a field recording from wherever the work is happening. No newsletter cadence. Just the desk, once a month.
One sketch
Straight from the current sketchbook — unfinished, honest.
One essay
Short. On craft, process, or something that surprised me this month.
One sound clip
A score fragment, a field recording, or a work-in-progress demo.