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