Telma is a designer and illustrator passionate about creating stories through color, shapes and textures.

With a strong background in textile and graphic design, Telma blends an outstanding aesthetic sensitivity with deep knowledge in material development.

Her career started in Oporto, Portugal as illustrator and graphic designer, mostly for books, paper products and kids fashion. As her interest for surface design evolved she started designing textiles and soft materials. In 2013 moved to Barcelona to work as CMF designer for SEAT / CUPRA (VW group).

She is guided by strategic design thinking, to go from concepts to tangible results, shaping coherent product stories and delivering innovative solutions.

Currently she is based in Boston, USA, where she studied Design thinking methodology at MIT and continues to work both with illustration commissions and design work, for various clients/ industries.