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

All Projects

@nytimes Instagram

A text about fostering cats

“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”

A personal essay

A stereoscopic anthology

Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it

A set of animated icons

“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

Teaching sites made with google docs

A video featuring FKA twigs

A website about climate crisis

A website that is also a rebus

“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 website that uncovers alt-text

A book that spans the life of a pencil

“One publishes to find comrades.”

A class assignment about publishing

“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 online viewing room

An exhibition catalogue

A website with the color eigengrau

“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”

A class assignment about containers

“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

“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 painting show

A magazine about hitchhiking

A magazine in the style of a manila folder

A website made of stairs

“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

“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

“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

A video in the stye of a comic strip

“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

A circular music player

Editorial illustrations

A video featuring Taylor Swift

A series of artist interviews

A newspaper fold

“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”

An obituary

“One publishes to find comrades.”

A class assignment about collecting images

An article about the MTA map

A series of one minute videos

A video made of cartoon screenshots

An video with animated emojis

An article seen through windows

A website with an auto-generated pattern

“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 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 with a sunset cam

A video in the style of a tarot deck

A series of digital billboards

“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

Editorial illustrations

“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

An artist book

“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 with a dancing lobster

A video in the style of a ransom note

A website about medieval animal trials

“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

An artist book