Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
Editorial illustrations
A video in the stye of a comic strip
A circular music player
A video featuring Taylor Swift
A series of artist interviews
A website about climate crisis
“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”
A class assignment about containers
“Parasite. noun. par·a·site ˈpar-ə-ˌsīt. : an organism living in, with, or on another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host.“
A class assignment about web extensions
“Forty years after its inauguration, there is still much to learn from a mold-breaking NYC playground that provided space for disabled kids to play alongside their non-disabled peers.
An essay about playgrounds
An article with a dancing lobster
“When all the other mothers wore heels, stockings and hair spray, Esther would come to events with no stockings, no hairspray and no heels.”
An obituary
A website made of stairs
A text about fostering cats
An artist book
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
“The litter box may have brought us physically closer to our feline companions, but that doesn’t mean we understand them any better than when they lived mostly outdoors.”
An essay about cat litter
An exhibition catalogue
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
A video in the style of a ransom note
“The original meaning of the word ‘comprehension’ is ‘to grasp, to seize something with the hands and hold it tight...’”
A class assignment about hands
Editorial illustrations
“It’s illustrated in a topographic style, with the region seen from above and stretching out to the horizon. The artist even included the sky. . . that’s nice.”
A note from the editors about making a map of New York City
An article seen through windows
A video made of cartoon screenshots
A newspaper fold
“Just type the word ‘Chinatown’ into a Google image search and it will return pages of brightly colored Chinatown gates.”
An article about Manhattan’s Chinatown
“The Women’s Mountain Bike and Tea Society wants to rub out the image of mountain biking as an extreme sport.”
An article about a feminist bike collective
A website with a sunset cam
A set of animated icons
An article about the MTA map
@nytimes Instagram
A video in the style of a tarot deck
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
A painting show
A magazine about hitchhiking
A video featuring FKA twigs
“Over two decades of twists and turns and promises unmet, one journalist has been keeping a close eye on the saga of Atlantic Yards.”
An article about a development nightmare
Teaching sites made with google docs
A website with an auto-generated pattern
An artist book
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
An video with animated emojis
A website that uncovers alt-text
A book that spans the life of a pencil
“The parade offers a glimpse at what the neighborhood could be: a place where people are free to be themselves and celebrate who we are. A place where we can be familiar. A place where we can move and breathe.”
An article about a fish parade
“Telling time, taking time, keeping time, time out, time to kill, time is money, time is on my side, race against the clock, ahead of time, a stitch in time, a hard time, buy time, big-time, and so on.”
A class assignment about time
“As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?”
An article about New Yorks next island
A stereoscopic anthology
“Vladia Brooks kneads bread in the same spot that her father, Vladimir Nevl, kneaded bread for almost 50 years.”
An article about a Czech family restaurant
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
A website that is also a rebus
“Behind the unassuming and conventional exteriors of public housing project buildings, behind the deferred maintenance and enduring stigma, there are apartment units with unique, enthralling, and expressive interiors.”
An article about a crowdsourced archive of family photos
A website about medieval animal trials
A series of digital billboards
A series of one minute videos
“In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.”
An article about a campaign to cap the Cross Bronx Expressway
A website with the color eigengrau
An online viewing room
“A toxic mix of sewage, trash, urban runoff, and chemical waste released indiscriminately by the factories located along the banks of the Bronx River has wreaked havoc on its ecology for over a century.”
All about a map
“As an architecture student in the 1990s, I puzzled over my instructors’ and classmates’ reflexive dismissal of suburbs, suburban form, and, by extension, suburbanites.”
An article about suburbia
“The ghost of Annie’s brother was said to go into the pantry for a drink every night at 10 o’ clock.”
An article about a haunted house