An online viewing room
“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 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
An article seen through windows
A book that spans the life of a pencil
A painting show
A series of one minute videos
A series of digital billboards
A series of artist interviews
An exhibition catalogue
“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
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
A video made of cartoon screenshots
“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 website that uncovers alt-text
Editorial illustrations
A website with a sunset cam
“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 website with an auto-generated pattern
A video in the style of a tarot deck
A website that is also a rebus
A website with the color eigengrau
A website about medieval animal trials
An article with a dancing lobster
A text about fostering cats
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
“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
An artist book
Teaching sites made with google docs
“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
Editorial illustrations
“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
“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
“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
“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
An video with animated emojis
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
“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 newspaper fold
A website made of stairs
“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
A video featuring FKA twigs
A video in the stye of a comic strip
“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 magazine about hitchhiking
@nytimes Instagram
“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 stereoscopic anthology
“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 ransom note
A circular music player
“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 video featuring Taylor Swift
A website about climate crisis
An artist book
An article about the MTA map
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
“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
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