Transitivity

As Lune Ames writes in Issue 1, the trans-ness of Marsha P Johnson beckons us to reach across, over and beyond genders, streets and...

Jersey Art Book Fair is coming!

Dense Magazine is pleased to announce the first-ever Jersey Art Book Fair, with over 60 exhibitors coming to Jersey City Jan 28–29, 2023.

In the Circle of Sound

In Issue 1, University of Orange offers up their antidote to speeding past and around America’s Main Streets, and it’s music to our ears.

Off The Map

Ask artist and map fanatic Andrew Harrison for directions? He’ll tell you to get lost. Find out why and more cartographic twists in our Q&A.

Squeezing out NYC and Philly

Co-founder Petia Morozov speaks with design historian Gabrielle Esperdy about the city of the future, and spoiler alert, it's New Jersey.

Getting Dense with Gabrielle Esperdy

Author and architectural historian Gabrielle Esperdy gives us her first-person account why New Jersey is one very complicated place to love.

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.

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.

Exit 7X: The Future

When climate change ruptures NJ Turnpike’s original plans, what new futures are possible for this mega-infrastructure? Enter the year 2151.

NJ State of Mind

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

Tangents about design and New Jersey, served up most Sundays.

Booth, Please is our weekly serving of bold stories, strange tangents and surprising conversations about design and New Jersey, dished up digitally in the comfort of every diner's favorite seat in the house.

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