Print edition, designed by Andrew Sondern

The map being built from the ground up.
Detail: getting off the train and walking to a connection
Detail: the illustrator rode the length of the subways to feel the curve of the paths
Detail: here we reach the edge of the map.
Mobile

All Projects

“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 website with an auto-generated pattern

“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 text about fostering cats

“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

“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

“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”

An obituary

An article with a dancing lobster

A video in the stye of a comic strip

“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 that is also a rebus

A website with a sunset cam

“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 article seen through windows

An online viewing room

“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 about medieval animal trials

A video made of cartoon screenshots

An artist book

“One publishes to find comrades.”

A class assignment about publishing

An exhibition catalogue

A magazine in the style of a manila folder

“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 series of one minute videos

A newspaper fold

A website about climate crisis

A video in the style of a tarot deck

A video featuring Taylor Swift

A video in the style of a ransom note

An artist book

“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 with the color eigengrau

A series of digital billboards

An video with animated emojis

A website that uncovers alt-text

A series of artist interviews

“One publishes to find comrades.”

A class assignment about collecting images

A painting show

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

@nytimes Instagram

“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 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

Editorial illustrations

A stereoscopic anthology

“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

Editorial illustrations

A magazine about hitchhiking

A website made of stairs

A book that spans the life of a pencil

A set of animated icons

An article about the MTA map

Teaching sites made with google docs

“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

“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”

A personal essay

Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it

“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

“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