Night Drive Home

In his Issue 1 essay, photographer David Maisel brings us on a journey down the NJ Turnpike after decades away, to make peace with dystopia.

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.

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

Photographer and Issue 1 contributor Dana Yurcisin joins us to chat about his process, and why he looks up to feel human on the NJ Turnpike.

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.

Filmmaker Shayna Strype pulls us deep into the trance state of the NJ Turnpike. This ain't no ordinary commute, so enjoy the ride.

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