Mail Art is back, big time! With the launch this week of Dear Data (Princeton Architecural Press 2016), the performative art of serial correspondence comes to light in a workshop tonight at The Sketchbook Project, in Willimasburg.

After only meeting twice, designers Giorgia Lupa [living in New York] and Stefanie Posavec [living in London] decided to embark on a year-long project in an effort to get to know one another. The result is Dear Data, a compilation of their transatlantic exchange via weekly postcards.

A combination of mail art and data visualization, through their fun correspondence the two women used visual data—rather than social media—as a starting point for exploring and understanding the world around them.

The Sketchbook Project hosts a Dear Data workshop, Friday, September 9, 6:30 pm. 28 Frost Street, Brooklyn/Williamsburg, NY. Info More

On the heels of a project in which he photographed New York City’s trees, Mitch Epstein has moved on to the rocks and clouds of the five boroughs. The result is an intriguing balancing act of the elemental and the ephemeral. Working in black-and-white, Epstein nods to tradition—to Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, and other early lensmen of American mountains, and to Alfred Stieglitz’s sublime “Equivalents” series of clouds. 

But his pictures are big, in the contemporary vein, and his stance is casual, with the offhand ease of a snapshot. Whether his subject is a surf-washed stone jetty in the Rockaways or a storm gathering over the Staten Island bay, Epstein never lets formal mastery overwhelm genuine feeling. Through Oct. 22.—Vince Aletti for The New Yorker

Mitch Epstein | Rocks and Clouds continues through October 22 at Yancey Richardson Gallery. 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY Info Above: © Mitch Epstein, Rockaway, Queens, 2014.

The Swiss style of graphic is perhaps the most influential movement of the 20th century. It emerged in the 1950s, as a clear graphic language of communication, and became a hallmark style internationally.

Swiss Style Now, an exhibition that opened this week at The Cooper Union, provides a current view of the graphic design scene in Switzerland from the last five years and features more than 120 works from different generations of Swiss designers. Pieces by a hundred currently working Swiss designers include books, brochures, flyers and more, offering a comprehensive view of Swiss style today. 

The exhibition is curated by Erich Brechbühl, a Lucerne-based independent graphic designer; Noël Leu, co-founder of the Grilli Type foundry; Xavier Erni, co-founder of the graphic design studio Neo Neo; and Alexander Tochilovsky, curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography.

Swiss Style Now continues through October 1 at the 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, at 41 Cooper Square, Third Avenue between 6^th-7^th Streets. Info