Here you’ll find previous editions of the Neutral magazine from over the years, it gives you an insight of how the design concept changes over the years.
Neutral 2025
Punk Rock Rules
The punk theme ripped apart conventional aesthetics, stitching together chaotic typography, safety-pin embellishments, and stark monochrome imagery to craft a raw, anti-establishment visual manifesto.
Layered beneath it was a chaotic collage of photocopied newsprint, the ink bleeding into the fibres to create a texture that felt both decaying and urgent. The final design was a stark, monochromatic poster, a deliberate act of visual noise that rejected digital polish in favour of anarchy, challenging the viewer to find meaning in the deliberate destruction of the message itself.
Neutral 2020
California 80’s Sunrise
This California 80’s Sunrise design concept captures the serene yet vibrant transition from dawn to day. It blends the vibrant, hazy lavender and blush pink of first light with the optimistic glow of golden hour, all grounded by the cool, misty feel of the 1980’s. This palette evokes a sense of peaceful renewal and effortless warmth, mirroring the state’s iconic morning horizon where the ocean meets the sky in a quiet, brilliant spectacle.
Neutral 2021
The Cut & Paste Universe
Neutral 2021 explores the concept of retro memory through layered fragmentation. Sourced from vintage architectural journals and contemporary street photography, the piece combines textural elements of weathered concrete, distressed documents, and faded blueprints. These are juxtaposed with vibrant, translucent overlays of digital glitch art, representing the arts constant state of decay and renewal.
Neutral 2022
Digital Street Excess
Urban digital street art is the evolution of the graffiti-clad alleyway, merging physical grit with digital pulse.
It transforms static walls into dynamic canvases through cut and paste artwork and grunge design elements. This new layer of the cityscape can animate a character’s breath, tell a story that changes with the time of day, or invite a viewer’s smartphone to unlock a hidden narrative, creating an interactive and ephemeral experience that redefines public space for the digital age.
Neutral 2023
Dreaming in 64bit
Forged in the pixelated fires of nostalgia, this identity system draws its core aesthetic from the beloved 64-bit era.
The design utilises a limited, vibrant colour palette defined by deep gradients and low-poly geometric forms, echoing the technical constraints and charm of early retro gaming. Typography leans into chunky, aliased sans-serifs, while graphical elements are constructed from deliberately visible, oversized pixels, creating a tangible link to a time of exploration and digital wonder. The result is a boldly playful yet coherent visual language that feels both authentically retro and refreshingly contemporary.
Neutral 2024
A Steampunk Ascetic
The project embraced a retro-futuristic vision, fusing Victorian elegance with industrial grit.
Brass-finished gauges, exposed copper piping, and intricate clockwork mechanisms adorned the core device, all powered by a visible, hissing steam-core generator. We meticulously layered aged leather, polished walnut, and etched glass to create a tactile, immersive object that felt both antiquated and impossibly advanced, as if pulled directly from a Jules Verne novel.
