Chapter2050, is behind the scene

Chapter2050 documents emerging Automotive & Aviation Design — introducing student concepts, early design thinking, and the creators shaping future vehicles.

What Chapter2050 Is Building

Chapter2050 curates emerging automotive and aviation designers and the concepts shaping future vehicles.

By paying attention to ideas early, it creates a place where new talent can be seen and where the wider industry can discover the designers shaping what comes next.

Why It Matters To Us

Too many creative ideas disappear before they are ever noticed.

Students and emerging designers often explore concepts that hint at the future of vehicles, but those ideas rarely find a wider audience.

Chapter2050 exists to document those early moments — when a designer’s thinking is still forming and the possibilities are still open.

We are Tony and Carmen.

Chapter2050 began long before we understood what it was.

In 2016, we travelled to Las Vegas to attend CES for the first time. We were there for SuperFly Autos™, curious about where automotive design might be heading.

At least, that’s what we thought.

But something else held our attention.

Not the finished vehicles.
Not the polished releases.

We kept returning to the concepts.
The student projects.
The early thinking.

Work that was still open. Still forming.

We had places to document what was already established.

We didn’t have a place for this.

And that stayed with us.

When we returned home, we began speaking about it as another chapter — not of the industry, but of our own attention.

The number 2050 kept appearing in those conversations.
Not as a prediction.
Simply as a marker far enough ahead to remind us that ideas appearing early today might shape something much bigger tomorrow.

Chapter2050 became the name for that space.

For years it existed quietly beside our other work.

Now it has our full attention.

Our Origin Story

TONY MATTHEWS

Tony brings the visual discipline behind everything we publish.

With more than two decades of photography and creative work, and contributions featured in magazines around the world, he approaches every project with a strong sense of craft and clarity.

Across SuperFly Autos and Diecast Heroes he has designed and produced more than forty magazines, shaping their look, rhythm, and presence as physical objects people can return to over time.

For Chapter2050, Tony leads the visual direction of the publication — bringing together design, photography, and editorial structure so that each issue captures a moment in the evolution of Automotive and Aviation design.

His work balances creativity with discipline, ensuring the ideas and designers we feature are presented with the attention they deserve.

Languages: Bi-lingual English/French

Editor & Creative Director

CARMEN MATTHEWS

Carmen’s role within Chapter2050 centres on people and ideas.

With a background in pedagogy and psychology, she has a natural instinct for recognising potential — often noticing the person behind the work before the wider world does.

Across our projects she has quietly shaped the business side as well, building relationships, securing partnerships, and helping creators find confidence in their own work.

As a photographer she gravitates toward movement and dynamics, complementing Tony’s focus on form and composition.

Within Chapter2050, Carmen focuses on discovering emerging designers and telling the stories behind their ideas — encouraging new voices to step forward and share the work they are just beginning to shape.

Languages: German (native) / English

Editor & Founding Curator