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“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
“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 website that uncovers alt-text
An article with a dancing lobster
A book that spans the life of a pencil
An article about the MTA map
A video in the style of a ransom note
An artist book
“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
An artist book
“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
“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 an auto-generated pattern
“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
An online viewing room
An exhibition catalogue
An video with animated emojis
A website made of stairs
A text about fostering cats
An article seen through windows
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
Teaching sites made with google docs
Editorial illustrations
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
A series of digital billboards
A series of one minute videos
A video in the stye of a comic strip
“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 series of artist interviews
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
A website about climate crisis
“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
A video in the style of a tarot deck
“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 website with the color eigengrau
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
“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 painting show
A stereoscopic anthology
“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 website that is also a rebus
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
Editorial illustrations
A video made of cartoon screenshots
“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 magazine about hitchhiking
“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
A website about medieval animal trials
@nytimes Instagram
A circular music player
A website with a sunset cam
“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 newspaper fold
“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 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 video featuring Taylor Swift
A video featuring FKA twigs
A set of animated icons