NEA is an annual digital and printed magazine about Urbino's Academy of Fine Arts and its students.


In 2011 we were tasked by the Director of the Academy to find a way to sponsor the students and the course of New Technologies of Art. ​This is why, due to the rising use of tablets and phones, we decided to produce both a digital and printed version of the magazine. The "centrepiece" of the publication was a section about students that could feature a digital work (video, audio, photo, or graphics).

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Inspiration and Design
The name of the magazine derives from the word neon, from the Greek néon, neuter of néos, "new," "recent," and specifically from its neutral plural nea, "new things", "news." The logo retains the origin of the word in its graphic form. The palette includes black and white and five neon colours. Those are an indication of the relative 5 sections: Academy of Fine Arts (Magenta), NTA (Cyan), VMD (Green), Workshops (Yellow), and Events (Orange). In particular, the colours attributed to the two courses of the School of New Technologies (Cyan NTA and VMD Green) produce the gradient on the cover and colour the individual years of the two courses presented in the yearbook. Moreover, the two courses of study are characterized by two patterns that become more complex from year to year. In the digital magazine, multimedia content, such as photos, videos, and animations, can be viewed directly, in the printed edition, by QR code.