All Projects
A book that spans the life of a pencil
“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
“Creating a space that appeals to locals and visitors is a balancing act. The New York that exists in the imagination of a tourist isn’t going to be the same as the many New Yorks 8.25 million residents know as their own.”
An article about the redevelopment of Rockefeller Center
A video in the style of a tarot deck
A text about fostering cats
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
A website with a sunset cam
“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
“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 series of digital billboards
“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
“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 article with a dancing lobster
Teaching sites made with google docs
A painting show
“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”
A class assignment about containers
An artist book
“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 website about medieval animal trials
“Eighty years ago, the City attempted to counter that exclusivity through a theater guided by a public mission.”
An article about the making of municipal arts center in the 1940s
“Starting with the New York Public Library Picture Collection and Digital Collections, build a collection of images with the theme of your choice.”
A class assignment engaging the NYPL image collection
A video made of cartoon screenshots
@nytimes Instagram
“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
“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
An video with animated emojis
A website with an auto-generated pattern
“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
“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 keeping time
“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
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
A video featuring Taylor Swift
A video in the stye of a comic strip
A website that is also a rebus
A circular music player
“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 website about climate crisis
“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
“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 website that uncovers alt-text
A stereoscopic anthology
A video in the style of a ransom note
An article about the MTA map
An exhibition catalogue
A website with the color eigengrau
A magazine about hitchhiking
A newspaper fold
MFA thesis book
Editorial illustrations
“Create a microsite around an Earth Month event or event series.“
Class assignment using real-time data
“I have become a hoarder of dreams. Since high school, they’ve slowly piled up. They’re strewn across journals and loose slips of paper, and in the last few years stored on the Cloud, a nice place for dreams.”
A personal essay about grieving and dreaming.
“In any case, now is a moment to understand what exactly the city has lost with the closure of Hester Street, as well as how it came to be what it is, drawing out any lessons for others who might aspire to fill in the gap it’s leaving behind.”
An article about an influential nonprofit
A series of one minute videos
An article seen through windows
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
A website made of stairs
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
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
Editorial illustrations
“The Lower Manhattan skyline is an icon of glass and steel, global wealth and power. But just north of the Brooklyn Bridge, the profile turns to mountains of brick.”
An article about overcladding
A negative clock
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
A set of animated icons
“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 featuring FKA twigs
“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 series of artist interviews
“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