Tell us about your creative work and how you got to where you are now.
I’ve been making things for as long as I can remember, miniature worlds out of egg cartons, riddles tucked into the margins of homework, handcrafted envelopes for loved ones for no particular reason. I followed that instinct into a degree in Visual Communications and Design, graduating with Honours, then spent a decade working across some of Australia’s largest businesses, learning, at scale, what makes identity stand out and succeed.
NC Studio began forming quietly during COVID, but it was becoming a mother that made me go all in. Something clarified. I came back to the work with deeper conviction about what and who it was actually for.
Since then, I’ve been working with visionary founders in wellness, beauty and lifestyle through a strategic framework I’ve developed called Brand Bedrocks™. To unearth the soul of a brand and give that truth a visual world, that is my greatest honour.
How would you describe your design style?
Depth first, always. Finding the thing that is undeniably true to a brand and letting that become the point of connection for everything that follows. Without it, design can be beautiful but hollow. With it, even the smallest choices carry meaning.
Aesthetically my style is elevated, ornamental with a quiet thread of mysticism running underneath. I love the tension of pairing multiple typefaces, the richness of earthy palettes, and esoteric designs that evoke feeling.
Describe your ideal client, project or collaboration.
A brand in wellness space with a genuine philosophy at the centre — not following a trend, but answering a deeper call, ready to step into it’s fullest expression. I’m drawn to the modalities, practices and teachings that help people come home to themselves.
Share a project you’re especially proud of and why.
Theodora Spathis. She came to me ready to step more fully into her full power as an energy healer.
What moved me most was the photoshoot I creative directed for her website. Her previous site had her turned away from the lens, there but not fully owning her identity. The new hero shot, opens with her front on, fully present, and glowing radiantly. That image captures something sacred beyond aesthetics. It captures a woman stepping into her highest vision.
It’s the kind of project that reminds me this work is as much self-transformation as it is design.
What’s one lesson you’ve learned in your creative journey that others might need to hear?
Stay true to who you are. Your perspective, the particular way you see and make things, is the only thing that cannot be replicated. That’s what attracts the soul-aligned opportunities. That’s what builds something true that lasts.
Who is a designer you admire?
Jasmine Dowling, and the way she materialises her view of the world into tangible form.
Her earlier project Midnight Garden, where she photographed people’s gardens at night and turned it into a book, is exactly the kind of work that stays with you. There seems to be no bounds to her creative expression which I love.
How do you stay inspired?
An artist needs to go out into the world, to forage, collect, experience before they can come back and create with flow.
For me that looks like travel near and far, a new café or retreat, a novel, a modality I haven’t tried before.
Nature is my greatest muse. I’m in constant quiet awe of how wild and intricate it is, and yet how everything is part of a system so much larger than itself.
Where can people connect with you or see more of your work?
nehachandra.com @nehachandrastudio design@nehachandra.com
