I love to work in the wide space between brand and product. I want to remove complexity, bringing clarity and emotional connection through my craft: creating experiences that balance poetry and functionality, that make people feel something.

I’m currently working as an art director at Volvo Cars helping to design and define a distinct design language that feels unmistakably Volvo across platforms.

Volvo Cars, StockholmArt DirectorOctober 2023, on goingVolvo Car Mobility, StockholmBrand Designer & Art DirectorAugust 2022 to October 2023Hyper Island, StockholmLecturer2022, on goingAtelje Altmann, StockholmBrand Designer & Art DirectorMarch to August 2022Sonneman, NY/remoteBrand Designer & Art DirectorOctober 2020 to August 2022Lola Mullen Lowe, LisbonDesigner & Art DirectorAugust to October 2020Leo Burnett, LisbonDesigner & Art DirectorMay 2017 to August 2020Freelance, LisbonIdentity DesignerSeptember 2011 to May 2017

Red Dot Design AwardMobility Brand with Volvo On Demand, Gold 2023D&AD The One Brochure, with Leo Burnett, Shortlist2019Portuguese Club for Creativity (CCP)2 Bronze and 6 shortlist with Leo Burnett2019

Portuguese Club for Creativity (CCP)Agency of the year, 9 Gold, 8 Silver, 9 Bronze with Leo Burnett2018

Tomás Pires da Silva

Designer/ Art Director

I love to work in the wide space between brand and product. I want to remove complexity, bringing clarity and emotional connection through my craft: creating experiences that balance poetry and functionality, that make people feel something.

I’m currently working as an art director at Volvo Cars helping to design and define a distinct design language that feels unmistakably Volvo across platforms.

Volvo Cars, StockholmArt DirectorOctober 2023, on goingVolvo Car Mobility, StockholmBrand Designer & Art DirectorAugust 2022 to October 2023Hyper Island, StockholmLecturer2022, on goingAtelje Altmann, StockholmBrand Designer & Art DirectorMarch to August 2022Sonneman, NY/remoteBrand Designer & Art DirectorOctober 2020 to August 2022Lola Mullen Lowe, LisbonDesigner & Art DirectorAugust to October 2020Leo Burnett, LisbonDesigner & Art DirectorMay 2017 to August 2020Freelance, LisbonIdentity DesignerSeptember 2011 to May 2017

Red Dot Design AwardMobility Brand with Volvo On Demand, Gold 2023D&AD The One Brochure, with Leo Burnett, Shortlist2019Portuguese Club for Creativity (CCP)2 Bronze and 6 shortlist with Leo Burnett2019

Portuguese Club for Creativity (CCP)Agency of the year, 9 Gold, 8 Silver, 9 Bronze with Leo Burnett2018

Tomás Pires da Silva

Designer/ Art Director

Tomás Pires da Silva

Designer/ Art Director

I love to work in the wide space between brand and product. I want to remove complexity, bringing clarity and emotional connection through my craft: creating experiences that balance poetry and functionality, that make people feel something.

I’m currently working as an art director at Volvo Cars helping to design and define a distinct design language that feels unmistakably Volvo across platforms.

Volvo Cars, StockholmArt DirectorOctober 2023, on goingVolvo Car Mobility, StockholmBrand Designer & Art DirectorAugust 2022 to October 2023Hyper Island, StockholmLecturer2022, on goingAtelje Altmann, StockholmBrand Designer & Art DirectorMarch to August 2022Sonneman, NY/remoteBrand Designer & Art DirectorOctober 2020 to August 2022Lola Mullen Lowe, LisbonDesigner & Art DirectorAugust to October 2020Leo Burnett, LisbonDesigner & Art DirectorMay 2017 to August 2020Freelance, LisbonIdentity DesignerSeptember 2011 to May 2017

Red Dot Design AwardMobility Brand with Volvo On Demand, Gold 2023D&AD The One Brochure, with Leo Burnett, Shortlist2019Portuguese Club for Creativity (CCP)2 Bronze and 6 shortlist with Leo Burnett2019

Portuguese Club for Creativity (CCP)Agency of the year, 9 Gold, 8 Silver, 9 Bronze with Leo Burnett2018