Best Graphic Design Agencies (2026)

Turner Duckworth is a brand and packaging design agency. Vocation Brewery, a craft beer brand, began in a chicken shed in Cragg Vale. Turner Duckworth stripped the brand back to its founding principles, moved "the eye", a secondary mark from its recent past, to the center of the identity, added a technical monoline illustration style across packaging, and used bold colors as a system for signaling flavor. It also designed the brand world for Star Hill Farm Whisky.

MetaDesign, a brand consultancy with nine locations, lists several orchestras among its identity clients. The Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich rebranded when a new music director arrived and the orchestra returned to its restored hall; MetaDesign built the identity around soundscapes, with a conductor-like logo, bold colors, abstract imagery and an animated typeface meant to carry the thrill of live music into its communications. For a New York orchestra it designed a mark whose dynamic arrangement of letters suggests a large ensemble playing as one.

Carré Noir is a brand design agency within Publicis Groupe. Approaching its 80th anniversary, Musée Postal returned to its original name and wanted a modern voice that kept its heritage. Carré Noir began with customer journey work and social listening, then built the identity on the idea of seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary: a contemporary, pop-inspired visual language rolled out across every touchpoint, signed "Facteur d'Émotions". It also gave a board game publisher an umbrella identity built around its players.

Isadora Agency builds a brand's identity and the screens it lives on in the same project. For NCCER, a nonprofit that runs training and certification for the construction trades, it developed a new mark, a stacked E that echoes bricks and modular coursework, made construction orange the lead color, and redesigned the whole website. For Upli, a financial wellness app, it created the visual identity and a custom UI library together, then launched the marketing site on the same system.

Its design systems carry the identity into large, multi-brand sites. Isadora built one for Kelley Blue Book, and for Autotrader it built a multi-brand design system of 1,503 components, documented in Figma and Storybook and tested against WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines.

BBDO is the Omnicom creative network, with offices across North America, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Colenso BBDO, its New Zealand office, won the Delivereasy account in 2023 and redesigned the delivery service's brand around an essence it called "Endearingly Ambitious." The new mark reads as both a helmet and a pin. Around it sit a new color palette, a brand font with ink traps, illustration, and photography treatments, with JT Olifer as the main typeface and Founders Grotesk in support. Soon after launch, 17 Delivereasy staff had the new logo tattooed, and the identity was a 2024 finalist for small brand identity at New Zealand's Best Awards.

Studio Dumbar is a design studio within DEPT, with creative coders, sound designers, motion designers and visual designers on one team. Its longest-running example is Amsterdam Sinfonietta, a string orchestra founded in 1988: the studio designed its current identity, launched in 2018, and the one before it, plus its seasonal concert posters. A different designer takes each new series, so every set looks unlike the last, and all of them stay recognizable as the orchestra's. It also runs DEMO, a motion design festival shown on digital outdoor screens.

Nippon Design Center has worked from Tokyo since 1959, with designers, copywriters, camera operators and producers on staff, and its project index sorts work by graphics, signage, typefaces and packaging. EXPERIENCE JAPAN PICTOGRAMS is its set of simple symbols for visitors to Japan, built for printed materials and outdoor signage, with colors that can be reversed or changed and a short story about Japanese life behind each one. Its poster for an exhibition marking 400 years of the Rimpa school shows a monkey riding the crest of a wave.

Minale Tattersfield is a design strategy group founded in 1964, now working from five offices. Its wayfinding practice signs busy spaces such as museums and shopping malls, and it has also delivered temporary event wayfinding in London. It designs gas station brands, including graphics around the pump nozzle for a global fuel brand. Its wayfinding work starts by mapping the customer journey, and it has modernized cultural center signage it first developed in the early 1990s. On the shelf it designs wine labels and launched its own Swedish gin, JUST.