My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art. A bowl is to be eaten out of, to be dirtied and washed, to be regularly touched; a cup is not to collect dust, not to stay on the shelf, not to remain empty.
All Projects
“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
“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
An artist book
An online viewing room
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 website with a sunset cam
An video with animated emojis
A series of artist interviews
“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
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
“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
A website with an auto-generated pattern
A newspaper fold
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
A video in the style of a ransom note
A video featuring FKA twigs
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
“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
An exhibition catalogue
A text about fostering cats
Editorial illustrations
“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
Editorial illustrations
A website with the color eigengrau
A book that spans the life of a pencil
@nytimes Instagram
A website that is also a rebus
A video in the stye of a comic strip
An artist book
A website made of stairs
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
“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 painting show
“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 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 Taylor Swift
An article about the MTA map
“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
“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
Teaching sites made with google docs
A website about climate crisis
“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 medieval animal trials
A stereoscopic anthology
An article seen through windows
A series of one minute videos
“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
“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
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
“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 series of digital billboards
“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 that uncovers alt-text
A magazine about hitchhiking
A video in the style of a tarot deck
“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
“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
“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 with a dancing lobster