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

“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 stereoscopic anthology

A series of one minute videos

“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

“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

“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

“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

A circular music player

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

A personal essay

“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 video in the style of a ransom note

A video featuring Taylor Swift

An article with a dancing lobster

“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

“One publishes to find comrades.”

A class assignment about collecting images

“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

“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 website about medieval animal trials

A series of digital billboards

A website that is also a rebus

“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

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 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

An artist book

“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

“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

A video featuring FKA twigs

A text about fostering cats

@nytimes Instagram

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

A magazine about hitchhiking

A newspaper fold

A video in the style of a tarot deck

An article seen through windows

A website with a sunset cam

Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it

A series of artist interviews

Editorial illustrations

An exhibition catalogue

An online viewing room

A set of animated icons

A magazine in the style of a manila folder

“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

An video with animated emojis

Editorial illustrations

A website about climate crisis

A website that uncovers alt-text

A book that spans the life of a pencil

“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 video made of cartoon screenshots

“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 website with the color eigengrau

“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

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

An obituary

A painting show

A video in the stye of a comic strip

An article about the MTA map

An artist book