 is the first in a series of books by Andrew Herzog documenting one of his public art installations. The first Report centers around Herzog’s 2018 installation, 

, in which he painted a meter wide, one-kilometer diameter circle around the National Museum of Art of Romania. This book is the result of looking for a “how-to” guide/ any insights for making public art and not really finding it. It tells the entire story of how the installation was completed–all of the people and relationships that made it possible, all of the good ideas and bad ideas, hard parts, fun parts, bureaucratic parts, and easy parts along the entire nearly year-long journey.

Andrew Herzog

How to Make Public Art

Art Practice

Craft

Community

Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age' examines the challenges and opportunities in the wake of the rapid rise of creative coding within a growing community of designers opting to make their own design tools. This comprehensive overview covers educational approaches in design programs and the historic and economic contexts of programming in graphic design, as well as the implications surrounding the integration of coding with design. The book includes over twenty interviews in which major figures in design reflect upon the ways in which coding has innovated and transformed their design practice and strategies, and the directions it will take in the future.

You can purchase it here. Could, only find it in stock at amazon, sorry.

Demian Conrad

Graphic Design in the Post-digital Age

Graphic Design

Technology

Capitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding and advertisements; artifacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design and speculative design are being appropriated within capitalist societies to serve economic growth. It seems that design is locked in a system of exploitation and profit, a cycle that fosters inequality and the depletion of natural resources.

 uses clear language and striking visual examples to show how graphic design and capitalism are inextricably linked. The book contains many case studies of designed objects related to capitalist societies and cultures, and also examines how the education and professional practice of (graphic) designers supports the market economy and how design practice is caught within that very system.

is structured in chapters with titles of professions that designers can occupy (such as Educator; Engineer, Hacker, Futurist, Activist, etc.). These titles respond to the importance of not just how designers make work, but also how they perform daily economic and social roles.

Each chapter is divided into coherent articles in which diverse examples of objects and design practices are relayed. The book also features examples of radical design collectives, that work towards alternatives between design, community and reciprocity.

Ruben Pater (1977, NL) was educated as a graphic designer, worked in several design studios, also independently, and as an educator (e.g. MA Royal Academy of Art, The Hague). With Untold Stories Pater makes critical work on the edge of graphic design, journalism and activism.

is an inspirational book full of sources for design students, educators and visual communicators all over the world, just like Ruben's first book 

(BIS, 2016). www.untold-stories.net; @unlisted_roots; @capitalslock

Ruben Pater

Caps Lock

Capitalism

Laurel writes about framing HTML and CSS and making websites like building a house with scaffolding, walls and paint. This article talks about what exactly a website is, and how to think about making one of your own.

Laurel Schwulst

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?

Coding

. It includes beautiful artifacts from her home that link to pages containing poetry and personal anecdotes.

Her work revolves around our first creative prompt called 

. Phoemela decided to take it quite literally by creating a graphic of a home with stairs taking direct visual influence from 

The button asks you to take off you shoes as you enter the door up the stairs.

The site then brings you to the second creative prompt, 

which encourages creative use of hyperlinks as a way to craft narrative.

One of the prompts that are part of the hyperlinks is a net art garden of ascii art. Take a stroll amongst creative use of text based imagery.

If you click on "Stones", you will be brought to a wonderful prompt from the course, 

where Pheomela took pictures of stones outside her house and edited them in photoshop. She arranged them in a grid and gave them a link to an other page which consists of excerpts from her journal. This idea stems from mythology of 

This site was crafted during 6 weeks during the Intro to

Phoemela Ballaran

Welcome to my Home

Net Art

A short piece of writing about how we are already always programming, no matter how you view yourself as a "programmer" or not. This is a great read if you are just starting out.

by Melanie Hoff

Always Already Programming

Making and Breaking the Zine's second iteration met weekly at the IRL space in NYC. Andrew Diemer conducted workshops around the history and craft of zine making. Scroll to view their work that was printed during the course.

Zines include work by:

Liela Crosset
Hannah Cane
Amanda Pinsker
Natalia Dymora
Na Hyun Kim
Olivia Zhang
Maya Levy
Brandon Lewis
Kelly Rogers
Grace Kwon
Skylar Mitchell
Alex
Andrew Diemer



Spring 2024

Zines from Making and Breaking the Zine

Zine

We’re honored to have hosted Ruben Pater, a designer and thinker whose contributions have informed and enriched our ethos at Index, for a talk about his new book, Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, And How To Escape From It. The talk was held on Zoom and live-streamed on the Index Public Square (our homepage). You can watch the recording here.

Caps Lock — A Book Talk with Ruben Pater

PechaKucha, which means “chitchat” in Japanese, is a presentation style designed to keep things quick, creative, and engaging. Each speaker gets 20 slides, with each slide auto-advancing after 20 seconds, resulting in a total presentation time of just 6 minutes and 40 seconds. This fast pace encourages storytellers to be concise, creative, and to the point—perfect for keeping the audience’s attention.

If you're thinking of hosting a PechaKucha event at Index, whether in person or online, this guide will help you through the process, from planning and recruiting presenters to running the show.

PechaKucha events thrive on organization and creativity, so get the basics in place early.

While a theme isn’t required, it can give your event a unique identity. You might choose something broad like “favorite fonts” or “hidden talents”, or go with a niche topic like “favorite urban” planning details in your city or personal social media algorithm deep-dive. A theme can help attract the right audience and give presenters a fun guideline to follow.

Give yourself enough time to plan and promote the event. With PechaKucha's short format, a typical event lasts 90-120 minutes and features 6-10 presenters. Choose a date and time that works for your presenters and audience, considering any time zone differences for virtual events.

Look for speakers through your network, social media, or local communities. If you have a theme in mind, mention it to attract aligned speakers. The key is to find storytellers who are passionate about their topics and comfortable keeping things concise. Encourage them to rehearse their timing, so they stay within the 6-minute, 40-second limit.

If you're planning an event at Index and need help gathering presenters, let us know—we’d love to help build your lineup!

With your presenters ready and your audience hyped, it’s time to make sure the event runs smoothly.

Arrive at Index early (or log in early for virtual events) to double-check that everything is ready. For in-person events, test the projector and sound system, and make sure the slides are set to auto-advance every 20 seconds. For virtual events, make sure screen-sharing is smooth, and confirm that presenters are comfortable using platforms like Zoom or Google Meet.

Ask your presenters to send their slides in advance to avoid any last-minute issues, and review them to ensure consistency. All decks should be hosted from a single device, especially if the event I hosted IRL.

Start the event with a quick introduction to PechaKucha. Explain the 20 x 20 format (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) and why it works. This sets the stage for the audience and lets them know what to expect—a fun, fast-paced experience.

Once the presentations start, keep the energy high and transitions smooth. Introduce each presenter with a brief bio, then hand the stage over without delay. Remind the presenters to stick to the time limit to maintain the flow. The host will be the timekeeper if presentations aren't set to auto-play.

PechaKucha is meant to be casual and fun, so encourage creativity and make sure both the presenters and audience enjoy the process.

Once all the presentations are done, it’s time for some community engagement.

If you have time, offer a brief Q&A session where the audience can ask presenters about their topics. Alternatively, let people mingle, whether that’s over refreshments at an in-person event or through virtual breakout rooms for an online event. PechaKucha events are about community, so make space for informal conversations and connections.

Keep it fun and creative: PechaKucha presentations should be lively and engaging. Encourage presenters to be personal and experiment within the format.

Stick to the format: The 20x20 rule is essential to keeping the energy high. Remind presenters to stay within those limits to keep things moving smoothly.

Be well-prepared: Double-check the technical setup before the event to avoid any hiccups. Make sure slides are ready, auto-advance works, and sound systems are good to go.

Engage your audience: Keep your audience involved through applause, Q&As, or post-event discussions. The more interaction, the better.

Hosting a PechaKucha event is an exciting way to encourage creativity, bring people together, and inspire storytelling. Whether you’re organizing it in person or online, PechaKucha’s unique format ensures that the event stays engaging from start to finish. With the right planning and execution, you’ll host a memorable event that leaves everyone looking forward to the next one. And if you ever need help setting it up at Index, just give us a shout—we're here to help!

by Sam Taylor

How to Host a Pecha Kucha

Critique

Facilitation

The internet is a vast expanse, full of endless treasures, glimpses of difference, and the messiness of being human — but so often we only get to skim the bubbles that rise to the top, as filtered through 

 or the business models and ideologies of 

Part creative prompt, part act of protest, part meditative exercise, our hour-long expedition departs once every week. Each session we picked a platform, discussed what its algorithms might be hiding, and then divided up into teams — divers, researchers, excavators, and cartographers — and plunged the platform’s depths for signs of life. We used what we found as materials to create new works, talk about what we learned, and returned to our days with water between our toes.

Together, we plunged into the deepest darkest corners of the internet on our lunch break.

Elan Kiderman-Ullendorff

Deep Sea Diving on the Web

This book is influential in informing aspects of our thinking around Index, particularly as we think about creating meaningful programming and social situations, and the role of technology in supporting — not substituting for — interaction within communities. Barack Obama also likes this book.

In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives.

Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.

Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, 

 is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.

Jenny Odell

How to Do Nothing

This is a collective webzine created by students who took Intro to Coding for Designers with Alexa Bonomo during Spring 2022

Intro to Coding for Designers Webzine 2022

Sarah Kennedy, Julieanne Harris, Steven Lin, Liza Maione, Thomas Sullivan, Lana Hodgkinson, Yehezkel Lipinsky, Kathryn Bingham, Yaren Kaya, Emily Kolocotronis, Emily Kolocotronis,Shailendra Sharma, Sarah Nunez, Jon Marsh, Lauren Palmer, Dal Hae Lee, John Johnson, Hugo A. Ramirez, Lucas Anderson, Roo Robertson, Jeane Kim, Katie Schalick, Hye Jin Lee, and Hanna Marsh

Spring 2022

Intro to Coding for Designers Webzine

Camille Baldwin is an entrepreneur, investor, & brand expert and gave a talk about symbolism in branding. 

In the 20th century, brands were symbols. In the 21st century, they are stories. Learn what this means, why this matters, and how to create a brand for our wet canvas world. Framed for creative practitioners but open to all.

What constitutes a brand? How — and to what end — do brands wield the power of narrative? In what ways has the climate of consumerism changed since the 20th century? And how can we, as creative practitioners, use this knowledge to shape a future with intention and integrity?

Together with the executive team of Gin Lane, Camille co-founded Pattern, a multi-brand consumer goods company, creating the brands for the family of Pattern, Equal Parts, and Open Spaces.

Camille Baldwin

Open Source Brand 101

Brand & Identity

The term 'handmade' usually refers to objects made by hand or by using simple tools rather than machines. The result may be homely — as in a child's clay ashtray — or exquisite — as in a pair of bespoke brogues. 

J.R. Carpenter says "I evoke the term 'handmade web' to refer to web pages coded by hand rather than by software; web pages made and maintained by individuals rather than by businesses or corporations; web pages which are provisional, temporary, or one-of-a-kind; web pages which challenge conventions of reading, writing, design, ownership, privacy, security, or identity."

J . R. Carpenter

The Handmade Web 

Internet History

Touch Grass was a course created as part of our community-lead programming efforts to provide wider access for those looking to connect over commonalities in philosophical and cultural relations with one an other. For this series, we gathered around one central idea of viral internet culture and collectively built a timeline of the internet's biggest moments of the past decade. A timeline of what seemed to have ‘broken the internet’ is destined to differ among communities based on the vastness one's travels could go in the seemingly infinite netscape. Ironically titled, Touch Grass had output a singular iteration of a timeline of a collective consciousness on the internet since 2014. 


Commonly known as the year of Tumblr's peak in popularity, where terms like 

 originated from. Where ex-tumblrina millennials cringe at their teenage years and early 20s, gen-z seem to gravitate towards now, demonstrated by the aesthetics popular at the time 

 . Young adult fiction novels turned to feature length films swept the landscape in America. John Green's 

 replaced the "No, you hang up!" cliche of young teenagers in love. Lines were out the door at the theater to see every installment of the 

 trilogy. Life felt similar to the over saturated Instagram film leak filters posted prior to the rise of influencer culture. 


Vlogging as a youtuber became a viable career and we start to see internet personalities touching the hearts in mass. Before the widespread use of and understanding of the 

people had become engrained in communities dedicated to the watching of a singular youtuber or "vlog squad" in which a group of creators would either post collectively on one channel or exchange time on each other's vlogs in return for collecting views from both their viewerships. 

 became popularized as posting a YouTube video was viewed as a liberated space to not only come out to their audiences, but also to their respective loved ones. 

A year that held so much hope turned a political hellscape. A viral moment to surprisingly not have made it into this timeline was the 

 in the Summer of 2016, where it was commonplace to make new friends in a public plaza based on your shared goal of catching a Snorlax. It was the embodiment of the 

attitude that existed prior to Trump becoming president. Snapchat's launch of face filters warped everyones face into a puppy and vomiting rainbows, pioneering the eventual exchange of public-made face filters we see spanned across all social media platforms. 

An era of resistance starts to proliferate mainstream media as the #metoo movement rises in visibility. The pink 

 starts to appear on women's heads during the 2017 Women's Day march in the US. Beyonce's second pregnancy announcement takes the form of a Venusian pose veiled and surrounded by a floral arrangement. A tonal shift begins this year, where film and media start to be more obvious in their political messaging, such as Jordan Peele's 

This is where media starts to slowly implode and start the lobotomization of meme culture into what eventually evolves into 

. It all started with the simple amusement of eating tidepods as a dare and ended with the monstrosity that we know as 

by Childish Gambino becomes record of the year as 

The Touch Grass group chose to depict 2019 – 2021 as a simple graveyard. This could be open to interpretation as to what this could mean. Maybe they collectively chose to avoid going back to these times together. One could argue that this was a time of transition for the way media started to circulate. Algorithms became more intelligent to its user. Narrowing down and pigeonholing you into what the algorithm believes you want to see. People start to be fed a hyper-individualized simulacre of what is deemed 

on Tik Tok, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit (the list goes on) discover pages.

A timeline of internet meme culture from 2014 – 2024 curated by participants in the Touch Grass workshop series

A Terminally Online Timeline

“Hear with your ears, listen with your heart,” was one guiding principle of Pauline Oliveros, the pioneering sonic artist who lived from 1932–2016. Her other mantra was “Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.”

This book provides scores for such exercises. 

Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice

 offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. It provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic environment

 is a practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros in order to enhance her own as well as other's listening skills. She taught this practice worldwide in workshops, retreats and in her ground breaking 

 classes at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Mills College. 

 practice is accessible to anyone with an interest in listening. Undergraduates with no musical training benefit from the practices and successfully engage in creative sound projects. Many report life changing effects from participating in the 

 classes and retreats.

Oliveros is recognized as a pioneer in electronic music and a leader in contemporary music as composer, performer, educator and author. Her works are performed internationally and her improvisational performances are documented extensively on recordings, in literature and on the worldwide web.

Read more about the fascinating work of Pauline Oliveros in this New Yorker article by 

Pauline Oliveros

Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice

Music

Philosophy

“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.

This is the type of book that all the coolest people you know have on their shelves or in their bibliographies.

Jun’ichiro Tanizaki

In Praise of Shadows

Aesthetics

Michelle Mattar and Brian Schmatz give a talk about sustainable packaging practices. 

, a brand building firm focused on ethical commerce, and  

, a not-for-profit making sustainable design resources free and accessible. 

 is a Senior Business Development Manager for trinamiX GmbH, where he focuses on new applications for Near-Infrared (NIR) hardware and software services.

The top 35 Consumer Packaged Goods companies have committed to ambitious 2025 goals for sustainable packaging, but there’s already doubt in their ability to execute. Designers have a crucial role to play.

While we’ve made strides in curbside recycling for everyday waste, today’s complex packaging materials often end up in the wrong places. Many supposedly eco-friendly items end up as waste in landfills or harming nature. By understanding different materials and how they move through the waste process, we can leverage design to make a real difference: right now.

This isn't just about ideas – it’s about giving you practical principles to design packaging that matches the way we recycle and handle consumables today. The Practical Guide to Sustainable Packaging Design is aimed to equip you with a framework to measure how successful and sustainable your packaging really is, and how to be effective in pushing for even better solutions.

Michelle Mattar & Brian Schmatz

A Practical Guide to Sustainable Package Design

Climate

Packaging Design

For 12 weeks, a group of 40 recovering artists joined together and read Julia Cameron’s 

 ready to confront their creative blockages and feed their inner artist’s desires. We gathered in the Index NYC space with an additional group joining in remotely. Ella, our lovely guide, would stand up in front of the class and give an introduction to each chapter. We would open up the floor to conversation and sharing according to the week's focus.

The first few weeks were a mixture of confronting what the book describes as our ‘censors’ or the inner thoughts and feelings that get in the way of creativity and making. We often talked about what struggles we were having and what our wishes were. Sometimes people would chime in and give advice, or simply relate to one another having similar feelings.

Throughout the whole journey, one constant was always present: synchronicities. The things that happen in your life that feel just too meaningful and directed at you and what you have been thinking about. Ella would ask if anyone experienced synchronicities each week. This seemed to fuel exciting conversation and inspiration, giving meaning to the magic or 

As the course progressed, we collaborated together to come up with a plan for personal projects to get out of our creative blocks. A memorable moment was creating moodboards together and sharing them all as a group. We then set out to make progress towards a collective zine.

Everyone had different goals and challenges. Some people just wanted to complete morning pages everyday, some people had a specific project they wanted to get off the ground. We shared all our synchronicities, ideas, struggles and sometimes went on outings in the city.

The most important aspect to taking this class was the magic of community and gathering. Our focus was more on progress rather than reaching ambitious goals by the end. The experience was truly transformational and a memory that everyone will hold dearly.

Fall 2023

Artistic Alchemy Zine Vol. 1

Brendan Page and his class created vases in an exercise during the first class of the

 Here Comes the Neighborhood: 3D Modeling for Beginners

The course is designed to build skills in 3D modeling basics in a collaborative workshop-style course to build and sculpt an imaginative virtual neighborhood

This course is open to all levels of experience in digital tools and art backgrounds and encourages all who are interested in participating in creating one of the many group-made artifacts by our own blossoming community at Index.

3D Modeled Vases from Students in Here Comes the Neighborhood: 3D Modeling for Beginners

3D Modeling

Have you ever seen a web interaction from a fancy site-builder and thought 

wow that looks insane, I could probably never make that myself

? In this workshop, Ryan, (https://www.ryanscheuer.com/) is a developer & designer living in Brooklyn.will show you how to reverse-engineer some of these interactions to show you how easy and fun web development can be.

In this workshop, participants joined in a coding workshop where they:


Learned the basics of reverse-engineering sites

Learned how to ask the right questions as you inspect code

Familiarized themselves with a CSS pre-processor

Gained confidence to develop novel layouts & complex interactions

Ryan Scheuer

Painting a Website

Recently, Index founder Hugh Francis and director Elie Andersen talked with 

 founder Bryan Wolff. We discussed the development of Index Nodes, a global network of independently operated spaces we’re growing to empower people all over the world to open the third spaces their community needs. We also shared some advice we’d give to give to those looking to open new creative spaces, and what values underpin the expansion of this program. 

You can watch our interview, or read an edited transcription below. For more information about the Index Nodes program, 

Elie Andersen: For those who don’t remember or weren’t yet part of our community, remind us of Index’s origin story.

Hugh Francis: When we all went into lockdown during the pandemic, all of a sudden we felt really isolated and really lonely. But I actually think that feeling of loneliness existed before the pandemic, but when the pandemic happened, suddenly we were all like, 

 isolated, and that isolation was super obvious.

So we launched Index online at that point, to get people who were sitting alone in their houses to come together, and it grew into this peer-to-peer learning environment, to the point where we were having like, 250, or 300, people come into the Zoom rooms.

And what became clear as Covid started lifting is that this community wasn’t going anywhere. They still felt lonely, they still felt like they wanted to come together and learn together and have a space to congregate. We also kept hearing that people wanted a physical space to go to. But since Index started online, we had people all over the world who were gravitating towards these groups.

It started to feel like there was kind of this global mycelial network of people whose vibe was aligned with the way that Index talks and the spaces that Index was creating. So we wanted to make sure that when we built a physical space, it wasn’t centralizing and boxing out people who are coming to Index from all over the world.

One of the things that has always been a big part of the conversation about Index is how to make sure that this global network of creative and free thinking individuals can still be a community, even if we do build a space. So we began asking, can we have Index Nodes somewhere else other than New York City? Which is when we began talking to Bryan about his ideas for post-office.

Bryan Wolff: Yeah, the feelings you’re describing of loneliness and seeking connection, and wanting to combat that in some way or form very much relate to our origin story as well. I think a lot of what people started in that somewhat gruesome year of 2020 was dealing with these themes, in one form or another.

Initially for me, it was in the form of a practice, figuring out how to work on these ideas through 

. We were trying to figure out a way of working where we could focus on these kinds of topics, but we were doing so in a prefigurative way. And we began to feel like we could accelerate much more if there was a space to do so, where other people could come into it physically, beyond just a Discord.

So it was that idea, which I think I mentioned off-the-cuff to one of you, and you said, well actually, we’re actively thinking about Index Nodes. So what for me maybe felt more latent, or sort of like a pipe dream, became this beautiful coming together.

We discussed that, for Index Nodes, the conversation has to originate with, 

 And our answer was the same as in New York: Amsterdam needs a physical space for people to get out of isolation.

But Amsterdam also has a really unique history of third spaces, and a long squatters’ history as well. Some of the most iconic cultural institutions like Paradiso started as a squat. This place called ot301, which is sometimes a concert venue, sometimes a club, also has workspaces and studios in one giant building, that used to be a squat; then they rented it from the city, then bought if from the city, and it’s now under collective ownership. There are so many beautiful spaces in with stories like these our city’s history, but squatting has now become illegal. And basically, the whole city has become commercialized to the point where these third spaces are now in the form of a Soho House, where commerce is much more important than the creative community they’re purporting to support.

EA: Index and post-office both emerged from desire to create spaces that are resistant to the over-commercialized landscape of our respective cities. But at the same time, we’re working within that system: We’re paying rent in two of the most expensive cities in the world. And so we’re inherently dealing with business and money. I have been learning so much since opening our space about the balance of hospitality and transaction. How have you guys been thinking about engaging in capitalism, exchange, and transaction in ways that are non-extractive and that are still true to our origins of bring artist- or creative-run, collectivist spaces, made by us and for us?

HF: The thing that we’re trying to do differently with Index is to ensure that people aren’t being turned into products. The thing about the Soho Houses and the WeWorks and the Neue Hauses of the world is that they’re definitely nice spaces, they’re nice places to go — but you can’t help this underlying feeling that you’re being both extracted from and also productized as a member of those spaces. 

Come work next to these successful companies

, and suddenly, you’re part of the sell. And the problem with that is you don’t really have any transparency as to whether you’re being ripped off, so you kind of feel like you are.

Visit our coworking & community space in Chinatown NYC

How to Make Public Art

Andrew Herzog

Graphic Design in the Post-digital Age

Demian Conrad

Caps Lock

Ruben Pater

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?

Laurel Schwulst

Welcome to my Home

Phoemela Ballaran

Always Already Programming

by Melanie Hoff

Zines from Making and Breaking the Zine

Spring 2024

Caps Lock — A Book Talk with Ruben Pater

Ruben Pater

How to Host a Pecha Kucha

by Sam Taylor

Deep Sea Diving on the Web

Elan Kiderman-Ullendorff

How to Do Nothing

Jenny Odell

Intro to Coding for Designers Webzine

Spring 2022

Open Source Brand 101

Camille Baldwin

The Handmade Web

J . R. Carpenter

A Terminally Online Timeline

A timeline of internet meme culture from 2014 – 2024 curated by participants in the Touch Grass workshop series

Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice

Pauline Oliveros

In Praise of Shadows

Jun’ichiro Tanizaki

A Practical Guide to Sustainable Package Design

Michelle Mattar & Brian Schmatz

Artistic Alchemy Zine Vol. 1

Fall 2023

3D Modeled Vases from Students in Here Comes the Neighborhood: 3D Modeling for Beginners

Fall 2023

Painting a Website

Ryan Scheuer

“Co-working in the front, revolution in the back.”

An interview with the founders of Index and post-office

Open House with Desmond Wong and Christina Janus

Desmond Wong and Christina Janus

Sleep Wrapped

Dan Hemerlein

AlGhamdi Clubhouse

Tina Nguyen

Internet Artifacts

Neal Agarwal

Legal for Creatives

Cece Xie & Max Zidel

Space is the Place

John Szwed

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

Community Conversations: On Hope

Sam Taylor

Welcome To My Homeypage

Paper Rad, 2002

Introducing Index Resources

An ever-growing library of archived material, student work, and recommended reading.

Mediated Meditations

Gideon Jacobs

Look Ma! I Can Code!

Kate Schallick

Syllabus – Taking an Internet Walk

Spencer Chang & Kristoffer Tjalve

Dinamo – All Fonts Are Bastards

Johannes Breyer

A History of Internet Art

Zachary Kaplan

A History of Art History

Chistopher S. Wood

How the Internet Could be a Hospital: Mutual Aid at the Video Store

Will Hallett

Pixel Play