We are Tony and Carmen.

Chapter2050 began long before we understood what it was.

In 2016, we travelled to Las Vegas to attend the CES for the first time.

We were there for SuperFly Autos™, curious what the future of Automotive might hold.
At least, that’s what we thought.

But something else held our attention.

Not the finished vehicles.
Not the polished releases.

We found ourselves drawn to the concepts.
The student projects.
The early thinking.

The work that was still open. Still forming. Still unresolved.

We had places to document what was already established.

We didn’t have a place for this.

And it stayed with us.

Not as a plan.
Just as a quiet certainty that these beginnings deserved attention too.

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

We kept coming back to the idea of 2050.
Not as a prediction.
Not as a fixed point in time.

But as a marker.
A place far enough ahead to remind us that what feels early today may shape something much bigger tomorrow.

Chapter2050 became the name for that space.

We didn’t know exactly what it would become.
Only that it mattered.

For years it sat beside our other work, waiting patiently.

Now, it has our full attention.

Chapter2050 exists to notice designers and ideas at the beginning — especially those still finding their way.

We don’t shape them.
We don’t claim them.

We simply recognise them, and give them somewhere to be seen.

MEET CARMEN MATTHEWS

I’ve always been drawn to the feeling of something before it fully exists. The unseen thread that forms before the creative output.

Not the finished object, but the moment just before — when it is still personal, still fragile, still forming, still aligning.

Chapter2050 allows me to stay close to that space.

My role is to listen. To write. To create a record that reflects the person behind the work, not just the work itself.

Everything we publish begins with curiosity.

Not where someone has already arrived, but where they are beginning.

Languages: German (native) / English (secondary)

MEET TONY MATTHEWS

I’ve always experienced creativity as something instinctive, as something that flows, when unpressured.

It isn’t separate from life. It’s part of how I see and understand the world.

With Chapter2050, I always intend to design the magazine as a physical object that people can return to over time. Something permanent. Something that holds a moment properly.

I’m drawn to work that carries honesty, regardless of where it comes from or who created it.

Chapter2050 is where those moments are given space to exist.

Languages: Bi-lingual English/French

What Chapter2050 Is Building

Chapter2050 is a quarterly magazine, published in print and digital form.

Each issue introduces students and emerging designers working within automotive and aviation design.

We document their ideas and their stories as they exist now — not once they have become known, but while they are still becoming.

Over time, the magazine becomes an archive of beginnings.

A place people can return to, and recognise where things started.

Why It Matters To Us

We know how easily creative work can disappear.

Not because it wasn’t meaningful.
But because it wasn’t seen at the right time.

Chapter2050 exists to pay attention to those early moments.

And to protect them.