Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

What can I say, I love donuts and these are my favorite in New York.

The design and photography floor at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Union Square.

The first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters.

XXXI (‘Thirty-One’) is ❶ a mixed-use community space for designers (and others) to exhibit, teach, and discuss self-initiated work; ❷ a shared studio space; ❸ a residency for designers; and ❹ an online (and sometimes physical) store. It purposefully lives outside (or against) the constraints of the city it exists in and traditional commercial practice to ask what design can do when its goal is not money.