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