“Create a microsite around an Earth Month event or event series.“
Class assignment using real-time data
A video in the style of a ransom note
A book that spans the life of a pencil
“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
“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
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 series of digital billboards
“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.
MFA thesis book
“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
“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
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
An article seen through windows
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
“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 Site for Sore Eyes
“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 video in the style of a tarot deck
“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
“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
“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
An article about the MTA map
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
A text about fostering cats
An artist book
“It’s the year 2044, and New Yorkers are commemorating the tenth anniversary of the MAGA regime’s fall from national power.”
An installment of NY 2044, a newspaper from the future
An video with animated emojis
A series of artist interviews
“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 website that is also a rebus
A newspaper fold
A video in the stye of a comic strip
An artist book
“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 website about climate crisis
A website with an auto-generated pattern
“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
“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
“Some of our deepest and most intimate relationships are formed living with other people.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
A negative clock
A website about medieval animal trials
“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 video made of cartoon screenshots
A circular music player
“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 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 magazine about hitchhiking
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
An online viewing room
“Since acquiring a disability three years ago, I get around the city primarily using Access-A-Ride (AAR), the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s paratransit service.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
“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 painting show
“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 stereoscopic anthology
A website made of stairs
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
A video featuring FKA twigs
A website with the color eigengrau
A website that uncovers alt-text
Teaching sites made with google docs
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
“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 series of one minute videos
An article with a dancing lobster
“It’s become a ritual of sorts: drafting a list of ingredients, grabbing a canvas bag, driving the vehicle of my body along the same streets there and back, selecting my produce, paying, unloading my goodies, and packing them away at home.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
@nytimes Instagram
“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
Editorial illustrations
A website with a sunset cam
A video featuring Taylor Swift