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Foldout poster accompanying the interview with my grandmother, Sydney de Jong, for Laurel Doody Library Supply. Image of Syd in her ceramic studio, with her daughter Celia.
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Interview with Sydney de Jong
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Interview with Tony Rialto
Foldout poster accompanying the interview with my grandmother, Sydney de Jong, for Laurel Doody Library Supply. Image of Syd in her ceramic studio, with her daughter Celia.
Interview with Sydney de Jong
Interview with Tony Rialto
“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
A series of artist interviews
A website with a sunset cam
Editorial illustrations
A website made of stairs
A video in the stye of a comic strip
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
A stereoscopic anthology
An article about the MTA map
“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
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
A series of one minute videos
“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
“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
A website that uncovers alt-text
“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
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
“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
A video made of cartoon screenshots
A book that spans the life of a pencil
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
Editorial illustrations
“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
“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”
A class assignment about containers
A set of animated icons
A newspaper fold
“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
An article seen through windows
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
Teaching sites made with google docs
“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
“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
A video featuring FKA twigs
An video with animated emojis
“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
“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 painting show
A website about medieval animal trials
A text about fostering cats
An artist book
An online viewing room
“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
A website with an auto-generated pattern
@nytimes Instagram
A series of digital billboards
A magazine about hitchhiking
An article with a dancing lobster
A website that is also a rebus
A video featuring Taylor Swift
A circular music player
“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 video in the style of a ransom note
An artist book
“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 video in the style of a tarot deck
A website about climate crisis