All Projects
A website with the color eigengrau
An exhibition catalogue
Editorial illustrations
“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
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
@nytimes Instagram
A circular music player
A series of one minute videos
An artist book
A website with a sunset cam
A video made of cartoon screenshots
A stereoscopic anthology
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
“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 publishing
A book that spans the life of a pencil
A painting show
“Create a microsite around an Earth Month event or event series.“
Class assignment using real-time data
“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
“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
“Since acquiring a disability three years ago, I get around the city primarily using Access-A-Ride (AAR), the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s paratransit service.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
“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 in the stye of a comic strip
A website about climate crisis
A negative clock
A series of digital billboards
A video featuring Taylor Swift
A video in the style of a tarot deck
“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 Site for Sore Eyes
“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
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
“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
“Some of our deepest and most intimate relationships are formed living with other people.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
“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
MFA thesis book
“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 about the MTA map
“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
“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
A magazine about hitchhiking
Teaching sites made with google docs
A website that uncovers alt-text
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
“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
“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
“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
“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 video in the style of a ransom note
A website made of stairs
A website that is also a rebus
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
“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
“It’s become a ritual of sorts: drafting a list of ingredients, grabbing a canvas bag, driving the vehicle of my body along the same streets there and back, selecting my produce, paying, unloading my goodies, and packing them away at home.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
An article with a dancing lobster
“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
“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
“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
“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
“It’s the year 2044, and New Yorkers are commemorating the tenth anniversary of the MAGA regime’s fall from national power.”
An installment of NY 2044, a newspaper from the future
An article seen through windows
A text about fostering cats
A newspaper fold
“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 way that elements and parts of a dream connect with each other is a complex problem, yet, like a language, there are rules and frameworks.”
A photo book
A set of animated icons
A series of artist interviews
Editorial illustrations
A video featuring FKA twigs
“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.