Art direction & visual systems · Est. Lisbon, 2014

Image as argument, not decor.

Studio ofNoa Vance
DisciplineEditorial · Identity
BookingQ3 2026 onward
An abstract editorial composition of overlapping colour fields and a serif "S" monogram S VOL. XII — COMPOSITION Selected · 2014—26

The practice

A studio that thinks in spreads, sleeves and systems.

01

Interrogate the brief

Before a single mark is drawn we find the argument the work has to make. No mood-boards until there's a thesis.

02

Build the visual grammar

Type, grid, colour and image rules that compound — a system a client can run without us in the room.

03

Art-direct every surface

From the 4-metre banner to the favicon, the idea holds its tension at every scale and in every medium.

Recognition

Press & awards
2025

D&AD Yellow Pencil

Branding — Mira Quartet
2024

Type Directors Club

Certificate of Excellence
2023

It's Nice That

Studio of the Month feature
2022

European Design Award

Gold — Editorial

Commissions & collaboration

Have a thing worth
making well? Let's talk.

The studio takes on a small handful of identity and editorial commissions each year. Tell us what you're building, who it's for, and when it ships.

studio@sable.atelier +351 21 555 0114 Instagram Are.na Rua do Século 88 · Lisbon
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