Speaking of magazines I’ve (pre-)ordered, you could do worse than supporting Distance on Kickstarter. Distance is a new quarterly publication featuring long-form essays about design and technology, published by Nick Disabato of Cadence & Slang’s fame.

There’s a lot of writing about the hows and whats of design, but we wonder where the whys are. So much of the writing about why we design, and the ramifications of our work, lacks the research and analysis that is critical to any serious discourse. We want to change that.

The Kickstarter project is already funded and ends in a little more than 48 hours, so hurry up if you want to help. The first issue costs $20 and will begin printing soon.