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