Dense Fellowship Program launches this Summer

Dense's new Fellowship Program is launching Summer 2023, in partnership with Monira Foundation, as we host our first cohort of changemakers!

The Autobahn, Jersey Style

Co-founder Petia Morozov serves up a plateful of unlikely connections between the Autobahn and the NJ Turnpike, in the “World of Tomorrow.”

Where Are All the Black Car Designers?

Designer Dalal Elsheikh talks with editor Gretchen Von Koenig about surveillance futures, automotive spaces and how we need to do better.

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.

Not Your Mother's Spring Stew Recipe

Editor Andrew Harrison revisits his Issue 1 interview with hunter Joe Lanza, with a recipe that captures the wilder flavors of the Turnpike.

Smells like Jersey Spirit

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

Can You Feel Us?

Cofounders Lune Ames and Petia Morozov share how NJ densities and felt works by Felecia Davis model emotional, interconnected storytelling.

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

Booth, Please is our weekly newsletter that explores the dreams, discoveries, confrontations, and epiphanies that emerge when design meets New Jersey—all set within the comforts of the world's diner capital.

Issue One