notNeutral is the product design company affiliated with the Los Angeles-based architecture, landscape, and design firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios. They specialize in creating bold, colorful, and innovative products that encompass all categories of home and garden living.

Artist Statement: Our line of City Plates, released in a series of four, looks at cities as a graphic language of line, color, and pattern as a means to investigate the cultural, economic, historical, and political impacts on city form. Each series has a particular conceptual framework that relates the four cities to each other, and the series as a whole operates within an ecological matrix organized by patterns of urban development: organic, baroque, gridded, and eclectic. This methodology led us to some of the great cities of the world, and also to some less well-known cities that warrant attention. Each plate celebrates the beauty implicit in a city’s unique form, a distinct pattern that has evolved over time as layers of history are inscribed into the urban landscape.