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