Wading through the Future of New Jersey

SPURSE cofounder Iain Kerr brings us on location where their Issue 1 sci-fi story, “2021–2051” takes place, under the New Jersey Turnpike.

You from Jersey? What ecology?

Designers/educators Brian McGrath and Tommy CheeMou Yang walks us through Issue 1’s pattern book, and why we have central Jersey all wrong.

From The Sopranos to artist Tony Smith, design scholar Susan Yelavich maps the Turnpike as a culture-shifting behemoth in Issue 1.

In 1988, videographer Don Bull captured a beautiful failure of the NJ Turnpike. Thanks to the magic of time, it now lives on as our cover.

Editor Gretchen Von Koenig considers the everyday design of rest stops and their power to distribute assumptions about people and place.

Co-founder Petia Morozov unfolds our NJ Turnpike Scratch N Sniff Map, celebrating two hundred years after the 1951 Turnpike debut.

Weekly tangents about design and New Jersey, served up every Sunday.