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