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Swiss design studio Neo Neo on a roll with host of great new updates

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Date
24 May 2012

Like most organisations, graphic design studios can get on a roll, a perfect coming together of talent and timing that takes on a momentum all of its own. I reckon that’s exactly what’s happening over in Switzerland where Neo Neo, led by Thuy-An Hoang and Xavier Erni, is producing a string of impressive projects for an eclectic roster of clients. Whether it’s Playmobil-inspired invites for children’s museum workshops, art direction, posters and a publication for the Geneva Film Festival or invites for the city’s Vietnamese New Year celebrations, Neo Neo finds imaginative solutions to any design challenge put in front of them.

A stack of bright yellow booklets. The cover features a black and white image of a person’s face and the text “BLACK MOVIE” and “17–26 FÉVRIER 2012”.
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Neo Neo: Geneva Film Festival

An open yellow booklet featuring a grid of text and small black-and-white photographs. Headings include “Alps”, “Beauty”, “Attenberg” and “Footnote”, with accompanying descriptions in French and English.
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Neo Neo: Geneva Film Festival

An open yellow booklet featuring four short stories with accompanying black and white photographs. Each entry includes a title, such as “Agua Fria” and “Hardcore”, with text in both French and English.
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Neo Neo: Geneva Film Festival

An open book with black pages and yellow edges. The left page features a black and white image of a skateboard and the heading “NUITS BLANCHES ALL-NIGHTERS”.
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Neo Neo: Geneva Film Festival

A bright yellow poster featuring a high-contrast black and white image of a person’s face tilted upwards. Bold black text below reads “BLACK MOVIE” and “17–26 FEVRIER 2012”.
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Neo Neo: Geneva Film Festival

Two white cards with red print. One shows a stylised illustration of a potted flower, while the other contains event details for “Ateliers du mudac” in 2011.
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Neo Neo: Invitations for children’s workshops at Lausanne Mudac

Two grey cards with white text and illustrations. The left card features a block of French text about an exhibition by Stefan Sagmeister and the “mudac” logo. The right card shows a collage of white illustrations, including a hand holding a rolled-up paper that forms the letter “Z”.
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Neo Neo: Invitations for children’s workshops at Lausanne Mudac

Two white cards with blue print. One shows a stylised figure of a Playmobil construction worker holding a hammer. The other contains a schedule of workshops for the Mudac museum, titled “Ateliers du mudac autour de PLAYMOBIL Fab.”
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Neo Neo: Invitations for children’s workshops at Lausanne Mudac

A typographic specimen featuring bold, black sans-serif text on a white background. The French phrases read “Portez ce vieux whiskey au juge d’instruction blond qui fume” and “J’ai vu un punk afghan et deux clowns aux zygomatiques incroyables”, separated by the dates “18.06 — 24.03.1957”. A full character set and the words “workinprogress” appear at the bottom.
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Neo Neo: Type Design

A stack of yellow cards with a repeating pattern of overlapping semi-circles. The metallic finish creates a shimmering, scale-like effect across the surface.
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Neo Neo: Invites for Vietnamese New Year celebrations

A black typographic poster with white text in Vietnamese and French. The central text reads “TẾT 2012 HƯỚNG VIỆT” and “CUNG CHÚC TÂN XUÂN!”.
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Neo Neo: Invites for Vietnamese New Year celebrations

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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