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Thomas Winkelmann

PRINCIPAL, CREATIVE DIRECTION AND PARTNERSHIPS, SYPARTNERS

New York

Thomas helps reconnect to primal themes to advance humanity.

Thomas leads creative direction and partnerships at SYPartners, focusing on establishing profound, vivid connections between people’s life experiences and the work they are part of. Having made his own transition from editorial and journalistic work to designing large-scale organizational transformations, Thomas strives to engage the human mind, liberate the heart, and amplify the courage to act. Thomas believes in the power of universal, nonverbal language, and the primal themes that unite humanity to advance our thinking and motivate change. 

He has a BFA from Parsons School of Design, is a former apprentice of American painter Jim Dine, and nurtures a photography practice currently investigating the connection between light and identity in culture and place.