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