A senior design team on one flat monthly plan.
Brand, web and motion delivered every week, without the hiring maze.
See the plansIndependentDesign Studio—
Tessera
Design that stops the scroll today & still holds up in ten years.
Fourteen people,
one studio—
Designers, writers and developers in Lisbon, working as one team for brands that want to be remembered, not just noticed.
Meet the studioSelected work
A few launches from the last two years. Each one started as a single request on a board.
Ask for the full portfolio
Behind every number is a brand that kept growing.
Measured across 186 projects since 2021, from first logos to full launches.
See the work behind themTrusted by 120 teams, from first-time founders to listed companies.
- Nordvik
- Maison Ardent
- Osmo Labs
- Halo Roasters
- Pellucid
- Arden & Vale
- Sundial
- Fieldnote
Recognition, after the work speaks first.
Juries we respect, for projects our clients still use every single day.
2026
Gold, Integrated Campaign
Lynx Awards
Nightfall Motors
2025
Site of the Month
Folio Index
Casa Rosada
2025
Best Packaging System
Pack Europa
Halo Roasters
2024
Shortlist, Art Direction
Grid Society
Violet Hour
2024
Studio of the Year
Lisbon Design Week
Tessera
What we do
Creative and production under one roof, so an idea reaches the market with its edges still sharp.
Branding
From positioning to the last detail of the identity, built to stay recognisable for years and easy for your team to use.
- Strategy
- Naming
- Identity
- Guidelines
- Art direction
Digital
Websites and products that feel as considered as the brand behind them, tested with real people before launch.
- UX and UI
- Websites
- Apps
- Design systems
- Testing
Motion
Launch films, social loops and interface motion that give the brand a pulse without shouting.
- Launch films
- Social loops
- 3D
- UI motion
Development
Fast, accessible builds on tools your team can edit on its own, without calling us for every comma.
- Front-end
- CMS
- Performance
- SEO
- Hosting
From request to launch in four moves.
No kickoff decks and no waiting lists. Requests go in, finished work comes out, week after week.
Day one
Brief
Drop a request on your board. A sentence, a voice note or a messy document is enough.
48 hours
First draft
A senior designer sends a first direction, with the thinking behind every choice.
Week one
Refine
We iterate together as many times as it takes, with no extra invoices.
Launch
Hand-off
Final files, source and a short guide, so your team can run with it from day one.
A partner on call, not a project with an end date.
Skip the hiring maze: a whole studio on your side for one monthly fee.
Compare the plans
One senior team
Every request goes to the same people, so nobody needs your brand explained twice.
One flat fee
No quotes, no scope calls, no surprise invoices. The price on the page is the price.
98%
of client reviews rate the work five out of five
Pause any time
Quiet month ahead? Pause the plan and pick it up exactly where you left off.
Your own board
Every request, draft and file in one shared place your whole team can see.
Finished work, every week
Something real lands in your inbox each week, not another status update.
The people behind your requests.
Small on purpose. Every plan is run by senior people who have shipped for brands you use every day.
Join the studioInês Marques
Creative director
Tomás Reyes
Design lead
Ada Okafor
Motion designer
Jonas Weber
Developer
One plan, your pace. Pause whenever you like.
Simple pricing with no hidden fees. Pick a plan and send your first request today.
Core
For steady brand and web work, one request at a time.
$4,900per month
- One request at a time
- First draft within 48 hours
- Unlimited revisions
- Brand and web design
- Pause or cancel any time
Studio
For teams that ship something new every week.
$7,900per month
- Two requests at a time
- A senior team of three
- Motion and development included
- Weekly strategy call
- Priority queue
Not sure which one fits? Book a 20-minute call
Clients, in their own words.
Become the next story“They felt like our own design team from the first week, only faster and calmer than we could ever be.”
Hana Sato
Founder, Nordvik
“We shipped a new identity, a website and a launch film in six weeks. Nothing got lost on the way.”
Daniel Osei
Marketing director, Halo Roasters
“Unlimited revisions sounded risky. In practice they listen so well that we rarely needed them.”
Clara Mendes
Head of brand, Casa Rosada
“The first draft in 48 hours is real. It changed how fast our whole company makes decisions.”
Leo Brandt
Product lead, Osmo Labs
Questions, answered.
Everything about plans, requests and working together, in plain words.
Anything left out?
Book a callYou get a first draft or direction from a senior designer, with a short note on why it looks the way it does. From there we refine together.
One flat fee covers as many requests as you like. We work through them in order, one or two at a time depending on your plan.
Yes. Pause from your board whenever you have a quiet month, and the unused days wait for you. Cancelling takes one message.
A dedicated senior designer leads your account, with specialists in motion, writing and development joining when a request needs them.
Revisions are unlimited. We keep refining until the work does its job, and we tell you honestly when a change would make it weaker.
About half of our clients are in the Americas and Asia. We overlap at least four working hours with every time zone we serve.
Notes from the studio.
Short essays on craft, process and the small decisions that make a brand stick.
All articles
Your next launch starts with one call. Let us make it hard to forget.
Tell us what you are building. We reply within one working day with a first idea and a plan that fits.
- hello@tessera.studio
- Phone
- +351 21 000 4812
- Studio
- Rua das Flores 28, 1200-195 Lisbon
- Hours
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 18:00