According to one study, businesses with a strong design identity outperform those without by 219% on a stock market index.
Another research revealed that consumers and B2B partners see companies’ website design as a primary indicator of their business credibility.
Investing in design may be costly, but the benefits are worth it:
- Good design increases the perceived value of products and services
- It builds a strong brand identity
- Products with a good design need less time and money for marketing efforts as 72% people admit that design influences their purchase decision
In this article, we look at 30+ best creative design agencies in the US that support and inspire brands worldwide.
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30+ Best Creative Design Companies In The US
1. Bonfire Effect
Location: Fort Collins, CO
Expertise:
- Logo Design Companies
- Graphic And Print Design
- Website Design
- Creative Agency Services
- Website Development
- And more!
Notable clients: Accurence, FPE, Purpose Brewing & Cellars, Thermo Fisher
Bonfire Effect is a Colorado-based agency dedicated to helping B2B and B2C companies attract, engage, and maintain customers. Plain and simple. Our services include brand strategy and messaging, visual identity and corporate image, campaign strategy and implementation, web development, marketing automation, content creation, email marketing, account-based marketing, event strategy and promotion, and consulting. Treat your business like your passion. Fuel it with the kind of marketing that sparks inspiration, ignites action, and forges customer relationships that last.
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2. Fantasy.co
Location: New York, NY
Expertise:
- Visual Design
- Product Design
- Responsive Design
- Creative Strategy
- User Experience Design
- Production Development
- And more!
Notable Clients: Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart, The Met Museum, Polaroid
Established in 1999, Fantasy.co works with clients across various industries such as AI, automotive, mobile OS, eCommerce, environment, finance, media, tech and health. With offices in four major cities, the agency has created flagship projects for the likes of The Oscars, Nike and Netflix.
3. DigitalSilk
Location: Miami, FL
Expertise:
- Digital Agency Services
- Branding Agencies
- Logo Design
- Graphic And Print Design
- Website Design
- eCommerce Design And Development
- Mobile App Design
- Digital Marketing
- And more!
Notable Clients: IBM, AT&T, NFL, NASA, Xerox, Microsoft, Sony
Digital Silk is a global digital agency headquartered in Miami, FL. The agency’s team of award-winning experts combines creativity with data and technology to deliver superior digital experiences to clients worldwide.
4. Huge Inc
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Expertise:
- Website Design
- Mobile App Design
- Experience Design
- Physical Design
- Service Design
- eCommerce Design And Development
- And more
Notable Clients: Google, Nike, LG, Hulu, McDonald’s, Lowe’s
Huge Inc combines unified brand experiences into solutions that form meaningful relationships between clients and their users. Their most notable campaigns include a brand refresh for Android, cooperation with Google on creating products, campaigns and platforms, global eCommerce experience for Gucci and launch campaign for Lenovo’s Yoga Book Tablet.
5. Razorfish
Location: Boston, MA
Expertise:
- UX Design
- Product And Service Design
- System Design
- And more
Notable Clients: Samsung, Tequila Patron, Ad Council, Carnival, H&R Block
The agency has created campaigns for Carnival Corporation, British Gas, Audi and Amplifon hearing aid app. They come in all shapes and sizes, as campaigns for promotion and design of shared digital platforms, digital transformation and design of new retail experiences.
6. Firstborn
Location: New York, NY
Expertise:
- Mobile App Design And Development
- Website Design
- Visual Design And Production
- Art Direction
- Visual And UI Design
- And more
Notable Clients: Adidas, Jagermeister, Lafayette, Foot Locker and Royal Caribbean
Award-winning agency, Firstborn is known for its holistic brand experiences with a special emphasis on digital design and user experience. Adweek Project Isaac Award, Chief Marketers and Awwwards are some of the accolades they have won. Some of their most famous campaigns are Tempo for Beats By Dre, Adidas Transmission Park, Foot Locker’s The Hunt and Jagermeister’s Divine the Darke.
7. Big Spaceship
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Expertise:
- Video Production
- Website Design
- Product Design
- UX Design
- And more
Notable Clients: Google, Starbucks, Sony, Converse, YouTube, Bloomberg
Established in 2000, Big Spaceship’s notable campaigns include BMW’s BMWGenius product design campaign, Chobani At Work At Home user experience work, system design campaign for Boston Ballet dubbed The Ballet Company of the Future and Google Play’s Moments of Play.
8. Deutsch
Location: New York, NY
Expertise:
- Video Production
- Mobile App Design
- Website Design
- Typography
- UX Design
- Motion Design
Notable Clients: Volkswagen, Target, Taco Bell, DraftKings, 7UP
Deemed one of the most innovative advertising, design and digital agencies in the US, Deutsch has created campaigns for top-tier clients around the world. Some of their most famous creative campaigns include Connor McGregfor action figure for Reebok, Budweiser’s integrated campaign with soccer star Sergio Ramos, a mock drama TV series for Dr Pepper and awareness campaign for Taco Bell.
9. Hello Monday
Location: New York, NY
Expertise:
- UX Design
- Video Production
- Mobile App Design
- Website Design
Notable Clients: Google, YouTube, LEGO, Warner Brothers, National Geographic, MoMa
Hello Monday has entered FWA’s Hall of Fame and won Top Agencies recognition at Awwwards. The company creates digital experiences focused on brand storytelling. Their most famous campaigns include America Is An Idea. Not Geography for Lyft, A Series of Inspiring Stories for Google’s Search On and Driver’s product package branding campaign.
10. 97th Floor
Location: Lehi, UT
Expertise:
- Graphic Design
- Video Production
Notable Clients: Utah Jazz, Salesforce, Dell, Time Warner Cable
Founded in 2005, this digital marketing agency has won multiple awards and recognitions. Their team build end-to-end game plans that encompass creative graphic design, video, content marketing and areas that go beyond design.
11. Havas
Location: New York, NY
Expertise:
- Brand Design
- Website Design
- Content Studio
- Experience Design
- Product Development
- Video Production
Notable Clients: Coca-Cola, Adidas, Puma, Reckitt Benckiser, IBM
With over 20,000 employees at 700 agencies worldwide, Havas Group is one of the biggest global creative agencies. Some of their most notable campaigns include 9’58 Biography for Puma, Twenty for OuiGo, United For Global Mental Health’s New Mindset, Canal +’s Mission Really Impossible, Forbes’ My Name and Lacoste’s Crocodile Inside.
12. L+R
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Expertise:
- Product Design
- Graphic And Print Design
- Website Design
- Mobile App Design
- Creative Agency
- And more!
Notable Clients: Estee Lauder, Amazon, Louis Vuitton, Unilever, T-Mobile
An award-winning studio founded in 2012 that excels in visual identity, digital product development and applied innovation. Some of their campaigns include Louis Vuitton Mobile VR, brand identity design for Amazon Blox, brand design for Firecracker and brand design for Amazon Web Services.
13. Web Sharx
Location: Toronto, CA
Expertise:
- Graphic And Print Design
- Website Design
- eCommerce Design And Development
- And more!
Notable Clients: Macklem’s, Lightspeed Rehab, SWAT Protection Services, MedProDirect
The agency that helps brands develop across all platforms, Web Sharx makes sure their clients’ interaction with users are consistent on all touchpoints. Notable campaigns include graphic design and website development for Hemispheres restaurant, The Shoe Box, West End Homes and Galaxy Grand Convention Centre.
14. HiveMind Studios
Location: San Jose, CA
Expertise:
- Website Design
- Creative Agency Services
- Website Development
- Content Marketing And Copywriting
- And more!
Notable Clients: Retrospect, Salesforce, Dinan Automotive, Retrospect, Hewlett-Packard
Serving Silicon Valley companies, HiveMind has experience in branding, advertising, social and email design. They have worked with firms in all verticals and created campaigns such as website design and branding for Aptify, design branding and website development for Molecular and website design for Sepialine.
15. Rule29
Location: Geneva, IL
Expertise:
- Logo Design
- Website Design
- Package Design
- Video Production
- Website Design
- User Experience Design
Notable Clients: McDonald’s, Unicef, Make-A-Wish, Allstate, Invesco
A strategic creative agency that develops brands and connects them with the right audiences. With a big focus on all things creative, the team founded in 2000 has worked on campaigns like branding and logo design for Team RWB, Make-A-Wish rebranding, website design for Tonik and package design for Mellody Farm.
16. Brand You Development & Coaching Limited
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Expertise:
- Logo Design
- Graphic And Print Design
- Package Design
- eCommerce Design
- Website Design
Notable Clients: Balance Expo, Doyle Concrete, Treacys Carpets and Furniture, FML
One of Europe’s leaders in branding and marketing, this agency invests in its team of professional designers who have worked on such projects as branding and logo design for Balance Expo, web design for Caroline Crowley, visual identity for Nyhan Wood Design and brand design of Interleaf Technology kiosks.
17. Brandtailers
Location: Newport Beach, CA
Expertise:
- Logo Design
- Graphic And Print Design
- Website Design
- Creative Agency
- Video Production
- And more!
Notable Clients: Fiesta Ford, Palm Springs Motors, Norms, Skip1.org
An award-winning agency that is around since 1990, providing unique ideas focused on clients’ growth. They have created campaigns and worked on projects such as branding for Norm’s, print campaigns for Palm Springs Motors, website design for Galaxy Theaters and website development for Skip1.org.
18. What a Story
Location: Hyderabad, India
Expertise:
- Logo Design
- Package Design
- Graphic And Print Design
- Video Production
- Website Design
- And more!
Notable Clients: Uber, Kellogg’s, Canon, GitScrum, Standard Chartered
Working with brands of all sizes, entrepreneurs and businesses to take their enterprise to the next level. The speed of delivery and quality of their work was demonstrated in projects such as explainer video creations for Tahaluf, Call Ambulance, PurplePi and Innoculate.
19. Electrum Branding
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Expertise:
- Graphic And Print Design
- Creative Agency Services
- Website Design
- Branding Agencies
- Content Marketing And Copywriting
- And more!
Notable Clients: Elusive Muse, Bergeron Land Development, First Bank of the Palm Beaches, Marine Bank & Trust
Founded in 2004, this agency covers a broad range of services that covers all channels and is consistent across touchpoints. Electrum Branding has built brands from inside out in campaigns done for various clients, for which they have won multiple awards.
20. Level Group
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Expertise:
- Graphic And Print Design
- Logo Design
- Website Design
- eCommerce Design And Development
- User Experience Design
- And more!
Notable clients: MetLife, Smithsonian, Deutsche Bank, Brennan Real Estate
An award-winning creative agency, Level Group specializes in branding and design. They have a hands-on approach for each of their multitude of clients for whom they’ve created visual campaigns and identity solutions. Some of their campaigns include MoMa Minus Space, Staubitz Market, Camerini Robertson Films and others.
21. Cerberus Agency
Location: New Orleans, LA
Expertise:
- Graphic And Print Design
- Video Production
- Package Design
- Branding
- Ad Agency Services
- And more!
Notable clients: Standard Glass, Rebirth Cryoteraphy, Automotive TouchUp, Pearl’s Market And Restaurant
A full-service marketing agency whose design solutions drive brands forward. Their authentic design and media solutions have created such campaigns as rebranding for Big Easy Notary, New Orleans’ big to hot the NFL’s Super Bowl, creating a new brand mark for Louisiana Pizza Kitchen and packaging design for Orleans Coffee.
22. Rebrand Advertising + Design
Location: Toronto, CA
Expertise:
- Graphic And Print Design
- Package Design
- Video Production
- Website Design
- Creative Agency Services
- And more!
Notable clients: Canadian National, Circle Food Group, Novartis, Ridgestone Homes
A team of experienced professionals established this company in 2003. They create integrated campaigns using the latest trends in both digital and traditional marketing. Design-wise, their campaigns for SkinFuel, K3 Design Group, Purnorth and Nautilus have particularly risen to prominence.
23. Crate47
Location: Brighton, UK
Expertise:
- Logo Design
- Graphic And Print Design
- Product Design
- Creative Agency Services
- Digital Marketing
- And more!
Notable clients: Five Paper, Ted Baker, Life Water, Hogarth Chambers, Minor Figures
Offering web design, brand design and content creation solutions, Crate47 ensures consistency in visual identity and messaging for their clients. They strive for a unique visual identity that works for businesses they team up with, as evidenced in campaigns such as Life Water, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Kaafi and Don’t Stare Swimwear.
24. BMG MEDIA
Location: Birmingham, MI
Expertise:
- Mobile App Design
- Website Design
- Creative Agency Services
- User Experience Design
- Product Design
- And more!
Notable Clients: Zynga, E7 Solutions, Greenwich Capital, Adachi Restaurant, Grand/Sakwa
Founded in 2009, BMG Media works with thousands of international clients, helping them improve their web design and branding and developing software solutions for them. Startups and businesses of all sizes benefit from their mobile application development as well. Their notable campaigns include a web design overhauls for Beyond Juice, Vlasic & Roth and Verdant Frenchies.
25. Sociolus Digital
Location: Chicago, IL
Expertise:
- Branding Agencies
- Consulting
- Website Design
- E-commerce Design & Development
- Wordpress Website Design
Notable clients: TEDx, The Kokua Group, Illumia Consulting Group, Vilia Soap Company
A multi-disciplinary digital marketing agency that makes websites that are results-driven. With 30 years of combined experience in their team, the company has worked on creating websites for Amros Global, The Brand Education, ISCO and Panacea, all designed around increasing visitor engagement and user experience.
26. Double Up Digital
Location: Atlanta, GA
Expertise:
- Website Design
- E-commerce Design
- User Experience Design
- Website Development
- Wordpress Website Design
- And more!
Notable clients: Mag-nificent, NTG Freight, No Vacancy Atl, CommissionTrac
A company that works with businesses of all sizes and helps them get specific solutions that are based on their needs and capacities. They treat all of their campaigns as unique and have so far created many numerous ones, including UX design work for Sharedspace and web development for CommissionTrac.
27. Touchline Marketing
Location: Minneapolis, MI
Expertise:
- Logo Design Companies
- Website Design
- Wordpress Website Design
- Social Media Marketing
- PPC
- And more!
Notable clients: eCapital Advisors, Transition Reality, Datastratit Networks
Working exclusively with small and medium-sized companies, this agency helps brands generate leads, increase customer loyalty and shorten sales cycles through their work. Notable digital marketing campaigns they've done for various clients complement their design work and help clients focus on their daily business.
28. Flawless Website Design
Location: Englewood, CO
Expertise:
- Graphic & Print Design
- Logo Design
- Website Design
- E-commerce Design
- WordPress Website Design
- And more!
Notable clients: 4Real Ent, Mindless Thoughts, Ruby Jean, Block Bois
A full-service website design and marketing agency that attains a great online presence for companies and individual clients of all profiles: eCommerce projects for Elite Weight Loss and Rockit Richee Music, membership webiste for Bronco Gang and multi-faceted website for Pushin Positivity.
29. Something About Marketing
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Expertise:
- Creative Agency Services
- Website Design
- Ad Agency Services
- SEO
- Content Marketing & Copywriting
- And more
Notable clients: The Vanity Project, My Office Apps, Callback Tracker, FEBC
Something About Marketing is the agency that focuses on the specific needs of their clients and delivering viable, real and converting results. Though primarily digital marketing oriented, the company creates websites that convey ideal messages to clients' audiences.
30. Trumpet Marketing
Location: Germantown, MD
Expertise:
- Logo Design Companies
- Video Production
- Website Design
- E-Commerce Design And Development
- Wordpress Website Design
- And more!
Notable clients: The Jaspon Firm, Trumpet Art, Metropolitan Design/Build
A creative consulting company that works with clients all throughout USA. Their team also provides content creation and graphic design services, as well as logo and website design. Their notable work includes website design for law firms, art communities, financial planning firms as well as logo design for Stomar Restorations, Shady Grove Ophthalmology, Mommy Venture and Virginia Mini Courses.
31. TANK New Media
Location: Overland Park, KS
Expertise:
- Branding Agencies
- Video Production
- Website Design
- Wordpress Website Design
- Website Development
- And more!
Notable clients: Agrex Inc., The Andersons, Pack Leader USA, Dakota Storage Buildings, Bennett Packaging
B2B marketing agency that helps growth-focused organizations move their business forward by making consistent branding, smarter websites, engaging videos and CRM integrations, among other things. Their portfolio includes web design and branding work for Operation Breakthrough, Depth Security, Cross Manufacturing Inc. and Lumiblox.
32. Big Orange Planet
Location: Denver, CO
Expertise:
- Logo Design
- Graphic And Print Design
- Creative Agency Services
- Website Design
- User Experience Design
- And more!
Notable clients: Liberty Frac, Mortenson Construction, Wahoos Fish Tacos, Denver Society of Petroleum Engineers
The agency that provides branding and web design solutions that focus on the technological aspect as well as aesthetical. Their past works include eCommerce, graphic, website and UX design campaigns for Highlands Natural Resources, Flora Stark, Mediators Without Borders and Fineline Inspection.
33. Idea Marketing Group
Location: Yorkville, IL
Expertise:
- Website Design
- Wordpress Website Design
- User Experience Design
- Content Marketing And Copywriting
- And more!
Notable clients: Northwestern University, The Patio Restaurant Group, Compassionate Friends Nonprofit Organization, American Board of Medical Specialties
An agency that creates websites built for users and better search rankings that also help enterprises achieve their objectives and grow their brands. They have built strong client relationships through examples of their expertise, namely the projects they have done for businesses in healthcare, food & beverage, industrial and event industry.
Why Hire A Creative Design Agency?
Great design improves brand perception, product appeal, lessens the need for robust marketing campaigns and drives real business value.
1. Creative Design Makes A Great First Impression
It takes only 0.05 seconds to form a design opinion.
Design is a visual language that speaks to your audiences subconsciously. It shapes their perception of your offering and brand, speaking to their
- Reliability
- Quality
- Uniqueness
- Personality
- and more.
2. Creative Agencies Differentiate Brands From Their Competition
Americans are exposed to, on average, about 5,000 ads per day! And in the realm of social networking and globalized media, it is safe to assume the rest of the world isn’t trailing far behind.
Because consumers are faced with a number of options that increase by the day, their final choice usually depends on product, web or ad design.
In fact, one study shows that 73% of companies are investing in design to help them differentiate their brands.
Studies have also identified a "beauty bias", i.e. a strong correlation between a product's aesthetic appeal and perceived ease of use.
Consumers tend to believe that a better-looking product is also better-functioning, further proving that good design is a powerful tool against the competition.
3. Creative Design Produces Real Business Value
Beautifully designed products, and solutions in general, create connections. Adobe’s report states that 66% of consumers wish to look at a product that is aesthetically pleasing and well-designed, rather than plain-looking and dull.
Design is an extension of every brand’s values and principles and should be built around them. When customer relationships thrive on the basis of emotional connection through the brand’s visual identity, businesses secure consumer loyalty.
Research on the importance of design for businesses shows that:
- 49% of small and medium-sized businesses rate the importance of graphic design to their success as very important. (Source: Finance Online)
- 48% of users see web design as an indication of business credibility. (Source: Finance Online)
- 51% of B2B digital marketers value to the use of visuals in content marketing. (Source: Social Media Examiner)
- The biggest share of marketers (32%) say that visual images are the most important type of content. (Source: Social Media Examiner)
4. Professionally Designed Campaigns Ensure Brand Consistency And Build Trust
One study shows that badly designed websites suffer from poor traffic and low levels of trust.
The study states that “the poor design was associated with rapid rejection and mistrust.”
The above matters because trust is very closely related to consistency in design and branding. Customers can only really know and trust a brand if they experience consistency in all touch-points such as voice, messaging and design. Businesses that are consistent design-wise enjoy better brand recognition.
Here are some stats that tell a story of trust and consistency in design:
- 85% people cite color as the main reason they buy a particular product. (Source: Emerald Insight)
- 57% of consumers links the color blue with business success and 34% associate it with trust. (Source: Nonstopsigns)
- 94% people say that bad design is the reason they don’t trust certain websites. (Source: Social Media Today)
- 35% of marketers find consistency in creating engaging visuals to be the biggest challenge. (Source: Venngage)
Choosing A Creative Design Studio: 3 Tips To Help You Find The Right One For Your Business
Ask To See Their Portfolio
When choosing your prospective creative design agencies, head straight to their section of previous works and track records of working with notable clients.
In their portfolios, look for companies and brands that are from the same or similar industry to yours. The quality of work should be a good enough indicator of what you can expect for yourself.
Check Client Testimonials And Credentials
Look for authentic reviews and testimonials by their previous clients and companies that have used design agency’s services in the past. Agency’s website will display the most favorable reviews, so look for independent third-party review sites and reach out to these companies directly, inquiring about their impressions and satisfaction levels.
Ask The Right Questions During Your First Meeting
It is very important to set an interview meeting with prospective creative design agencies during which you will ask questions that can shed light on their process and form some realistic expectations.
To ensure you are choosing the right agency partner, ask these questions during the meeting:
- How will you develop a consistent design on our products while considering our business goals?
- What is your design process?
- What information and material do we need to provide for you to do the best design work possible?
- What design solutions have you created and for what clients?
- What are some of the design projects you are most proud of?
- Will we be allowed to give our opinion on design in progress and will you take our requests into consideration?
- Will our team be invited to contribute and have brainstorming sessions with your design team?
Best of luck!