Publishing has become a natural extension of my design practice: a way to bring writing, typography, illustration, production and physical form together in a single object. Through The Studio of Neil Powell, I develop and publish fiction, illustrated books and other print-based projects with an emphasis on strong ideas, careful editing and books designed to feel considered from cover to cover.
The studio is deliberately small and independent. That allows each project to be approached on its own terms—not as content placed into a template, but as an object whose writing, format, materials and design all belong to the same idea.
Perívallo
Perívallo: Book of the Living Moon is an illustrated speculative monograph that imagines the Moon as a vast living system. Combining graphite drawings, scientific observation and invented natural history, the book is designed to feel like a recovered field document from another world.
The Bird Maker
The Bird Maker is an illustrated fairy tale about a boy who discovers he can bring the wooden birds he makes to life. Written and designed in the spirit of early twentieth-century children’s books, it combines a quiet, traditional story with richly detailed illustration and period-inspired typography.
The Interval
Colossal discs rise from the oceans and begin rolling inland at five miles per hour. They do not attack. They do not communicate. They simply advance. Within days, identical forms emerge across the globe, moving steadily across coastlines, farmland, highways, and cities.
Governments mobilize. Scientists calculate trajectories. News cycles accelerate. Ordinary people gather at the shifting edge, watching the boundary move yard by yard. The phenomenon cannot be redirected or negotiated with. It can only be measured.
As weeks turn into months, humanity is forced into a new rhythm—adapting infrastructure, recalculating borders, reorganizing economies—learning to live alongside something vast and indifferent. The Interval is a literary speculative novel about time, systems, and what is revealed when the incomprehensible refuses to explain itself.
Owner’s Manual
Owner’s Manual is a precision-designed catalog for a technology that does not exist. Built from diagrams, specifications and ordering systems, it treats an invented product world with complete seriousness—part design object, part conceptual fiction.
