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