Index

Helmed by Shy Trutwein and Jasmine Gallagher, After Hours is a brand-building agency that creates identities, websites, packaging, products and more for a diverse range of clients, including brands, companies and people on the internet. They partner with emerging and established brands alike, combining playful sensibilities and strategic methodology with innovation and motivation to create things that matter.

Founded in 2015, Studio Bergini is a London-based graphic design practice that specialises in creating typography-driven branding, packaging, campaigns, exhibition designs, and websites for a wide range of clients. The studio values the physicality of design in the digital age, and works to incorporate tactility and the added dimension of materials and print technology into every project.

A graphic design and art direction agency based in Paris, ZOO is known for their expertise in crafting distinct visual universes for a range of digital and print projects. With a diverse clientele spanning various industries, the team of seven strives to elevate communication through tailored, functional and aesthetic messages.

A Friend of Mine is a holistic design, brand, and website design and build practice based in Melbourne. Their approach to every project is characterised by intelligent thinking, creative communication, and passionate craftsmanship. They strive to develop long-lasting relationships with their clients, helping them to add value to their businesses and realise their visions. With expertise in various industry sectors and design disciplines, they adapt their creative thinking to different budgets. Their services range from developing brand identities to fitting out shops, covering everything in between.

M — N Associates is a creative design firm based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With a strong specialisation in branding, they work with clients to develop and execute strategies for design, content, customer experience and art direction to help them achieve their goals and make a meaningful impact.

Studio NA.EO is established in 2015, with its core members comprising Liu Zhizhi, Mazzybox, and Zhang Qi. The team at Studio NA.EO consists of diverse creative individuals with distinct design orientations, each possessing strong interdisciplinary capabilities. They engage in a wide range of graphic design disciplines, including illustration, interactive interfaces, publishing, exhibition planning and more. Their work encompasses various fields such as art, fashion, product design, architecture, media, internet, music, literature, education and beyond.

Mint Design Lab focuses on branding, culture, and art, providing professional services such as visual strategy, brand positioning, brand design, visual design, packaging design, space design, exhibition design, etc. Design and business being prerequisites for each other, Mint Design Lab hopes to bring the most outstanding value to life through prudent design thinking.

emuni is a graphic design studio based in Tokyo, founded by brothers Masashi and Takashi Murakami in 2012. Specialising in graphic design, the studio provides branding services for a diverse range of clients, from major corporations to traditional handicraft makers.

Thinking*Room is a branding and design company based in Indonesia, committed to helping brands grow with a clear voice and a story worth telling. Putting together craft and thinking into their work, Thinking*Room brings about ideas that deeply resonate with people.

Foreign Policy Design Group is a brand and design bureau that creates unforgettable brands and experiences. Helmed by founding partners Yah-Leng Yu and Arthur Chin, their team of designers, problem-solvers, storytellers and strategists delivers breakthrough ideas, sustainable growth and meaningful impact for a wide range of clients, including arts and cultural institutions, luxury fashion and lifestyle brands, fast-moving consumer goods brands and international consultancies.

Universal Favourite is a design studio that crafts refreshing brands for an ever-changing world, working from Sydney to San Francisco and Seoul.

Established in 2014, Requena Office offers dedicated services in branding, packaging, art direction, naming, creative copy, as well as editorial and web design. The company is built on a compact format to enhance the complicity between the client and studio while maintaining control over the processes, resulting in a complete, decisive and transparent experience.

Local Remote is a design consultancy based in Taipei City, Taiwan. The focus of its work is to create the future of brand experiences. They help brands convey core values by creating innovative, immersive, experiential, and multi-sensory storytelling across virtual and physical platforms to engage key audiences. Local Remote believes that design has the power to connect and inspire.

Aino is an independent design and technology agency based in Gothenburg, Sweden that explores the creative playground of code, design, and branding for ambitious clients in Scandinavia and the world.

XXIX is a design and technology studio based in New York City working globally. The studio was founded over a decade ago and currently comprises a team of about 30 people. XXIX collaborates with teams redefining their respective industries, typically working with founders and growth-stage startups, large technology-focused companies, and for-good organisations.

Wedge is a strategically-backed creative boutique that focuses on developing distinct brand identities. The boutique works with progressive founders and businesses to evolve, clarify, and build their brand, helping them move on to the next stage of growth across strategy, identity, packaging, campaigns and more.

RELATED DEPARTMENT is an independent graphic design practice established in Shanghai in 2017. With a proactive approach, the studio focuses on post-Internet and post-colonial contexts within image-making processes and typographic presentations. Through deconstructing the entanglement between design, intention and spectatorship, RELATED DEPARTMENT engages in collective reflections on social discourses. By utilising various media, conducting academic research and undertaking design experiments, they strive to continuously redefine the imaginative boundaries of their discipline.

Accept & Proceed is a London-based design studio that has been dedicated to amplifying the power of visionaries since 2006. As a certified B Corp, the company uses its business as a force for good and carefully considers the impact of all decisions on its people, community, and the planet. The studio focuses on creating work that responds to societal challenges and drives positive impact, with a particular emphasis on urgent environmental issues.

Kurppa Hosk is a global brand agency supporting clients in decisive business shifts through solid insights, qualified strategy, purposeful design, and well-governed experiences.

Based in Kuala Lumpur, Valenlim Studio is a graphic design and illustration studio with experience in various fields including brand identity, print graphics, typography and illustration. With works heavily influenced by local heritage emboldened by a modernist flair, their signature style is bold, vibrant, yet executed with a fluid touch.

Serviceplan Innovation (SP.IO) combines design, technology, and innovative thinking to develop products, services, and communication. They exclusively work with organisations that apply innovation to address one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. SP.IO prioritises collaborations with startups, research groups, and similar organisations that haven’t yet fully leveraged creative innovation, due to their size or focus.

Pop & Pac is a multi-disciplinary Melbourne design studio renowned for their expertise in crafting intelligent, original, and often surprising solutions to the challenges of successful brand building. With a meticulous approach, the studio leverages their experience and creative expertise to design flexible real-world solutions that drive brand buy-in and engagement.

A design consultancy based in Hong Kong, Third Paragraph provides bespoke services with a focus on book and print design. With their expertise in strategic design and printing craftsmanship, they seek to create innovative designs that set themselves apart from the rest.

Studio Spass is a Rotterdam-based design studio that works across identities, campaigns and spatial design projects. Founded by Jaron Korvinus and Daan Mens, the studio combines a rigorous, considered and intelligent approach with a playful sensibility. Understanding that powerful and effective design needs both original ideas and faultless execution, the team prides itself on its perfectionist eye for the little details as well as its innovative conceptual thinking.

HOUTH is a creative studio based in Taipei that focuses on brand strategy and design. The team believes in creating value by exploring the boundaries between art and business, generating surprises from logical processes while implementing intuition and creativity into unexpected possibilities.

Sitoh inc. is a Tokyo-based design consulting firm with a core focus on communication design. Dedicated to identifying and maximising their clients’ philosophy and principles, the firm aims to creatively build up a corporate stance that embodies its unique worldview.

PORTO ROCHA is a New York-based design studio with a focus on developing creative and strategic work that engages deeply with the world we live in. Working closely with people and companies to craft branding systems, products and experiences, PORTO ROCHA seeks to provoke meaningful change through their work, from large-scale projects that reach significant audiences to socially and culturally-motivated initiatives.

Seachange is a brand and design agency based in Auckland, New Zealand. Driven by bold creativity, exceptional craft, and enduring partnerships, their work is thoughtful yet unexpected and often described as category-breaking.

M35 is an international design consultancy based out of Sydney. From category defying startups to publicly listed icons, the studio partners with ambitious clients to launch new brands, reimagine established ones, and accelerate growth. With a research-driven, human-centred and holistic approach, M35’s core expertise lies in brand origination and identity, products and packaging, publishing, physical environments and beyond.

CTHDRL is a design and experience studio that navigates the ever-changing cultural currents of the digital world. With a focus on the intersection of community, culture, and commerce, CTHDRL creates experiences that push boundaries while striving to make the internet fun again.

Rabbithole is a creative studio based in Leeds and Glasgow, UK. Established in 2008, the studio specialises in creative direction, brand identity, and website creation for the arts and culture, music, and architecture sectors.

Fix Studio is a collective of creative thinkers committed to making things smarter, newer, and more memorable. They believe that function is the substance of aesthetic experience. Guided by this principle, Fix Studio creates clearer user interfaces, stronger branding devices, and more cohesive design systems.

A Black Cover Design (ABCD) is a global branding agency founded in 2015 by Guang Yu and Nod Young, with offices in Beijing and Los Angeles. Specialising in branding, visual identity, product packaging, user interface, printed matter, and design strategy, ABCD caters to clients and audiences worldwide. Known for their systematic and targeted design concepts, ABCD has garnered recognition from a wide clientele and won numerous international and domestic awards.

High Tide is a multi-sector, multidisciplinary creative agency from New York. Specialising in all things branding, the agency blends strategy and creativity to tell stories, grow brands, design experiences, and create meaningful work.

Founded in 2007, Todojunto is a design and communication studio based in Barcelona. The studio mainly focuses on cultural projects and dissemination of knowledge, working with local and international educational and cultural institutions. Todojunto’s transversal, transmedia approach to communication fields is reflected in their diverse range of projects, which include research utilising vintage printing techniques, web and exhibition design, music-related projects, and editorial design.

Founded in 2011, rice is an award-winning creative studio based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With an ethos that embraces the belief that anything is possible, the studio helps to propel brands, places and people into opportunities for future growth and success through purposeful design.

Polar is where what is identified around people, brands and spaces is designed. Both a studio and shop, Polar brings together professionals from different specialities who see projects as a means to provoke new perspectives. Internationally acclaimed, the studio works with diverse projects and clients willing to collaborate and build with a purpose above all.

Founded in 2013, STUDIOWMW is a Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary design studio. They specialise in branding, print, products, packaging, exhibitions, installations, and websites, with a core focus on community, culture, and commerce.

A strategy and design firm based in Montreal, Principal brings together branding and digital professionals to help organisations define and express their identity. They have developed an integrated design approach that reinforces the cultural, reputational and financial value of an organisation while leaving a positive, lasting mark on the world.

Based in New York City, Gander is an award-winning creative agency founded by Katie Levy and Mike McVicar in 2013. Together with their team of creative individuals, they have helped in creating some of the most challenging brands in the food and beverage industry.

Post-Spectacular Office is a design studio that fuses extensive experience from the fields of architecture, exhibition design, graphic design and academia. Adopting a trans-disciplinary approach for their projects, they specialise in using a variety of mediums to construct spatial and visual narratives with the aim of creating unique forms.

Studio Airport is an independent graphic design and film practice exploring the progressive intersection of both disciplines. The studio was founded in 2011 by Bram Broerse and Maurits Wouters and comprises a close-knit team of creatives.

Lung-Hao Chiang is a Taiwanese graphic designer and art director with a passion for coffee and food and a penchant for witty but eye-catching branding.

Workbyworks is a multidisciplinary design studio based in New York and Shanghai, providing constantly evolving design solutions — from creative direction to branding and visual identity — to clients from around the world. With a flexible approach towards their projects, their influence takes on various forms at large and small scales.

low key Design Company is an independent design studio based in Shanghai, specialising in graphic design that helps brands build connections with their audience.

.Oddity Studio is a team of independent interdisciplinary design practitioners with a focus on brand identities and user experience development. Their works stand out with authentic concepts that are closely tied to the project context. The team blurs boundaries between disciplines and challenges the status quo in the creative process by taking risks that lead into brand new meanings.

Masashi Murakami is the principal of Tokyo-based graphic design studio emuni, specialising in graphic design for branding projects. His designs make use of typography and transcend conventional frameworks. In addition to his work in design, Murakami also showcases his typography-focused art in exhibitions. Throughout his career, he has participated in several exhibitions both in Japan and abroad.

Little Troop is a creative studio that enjoys collaborating with good people on smart projects. Although their work is very diverse, their aesthetic approach often involves a distinct sense of play with the aim of putting the fun in functional. Their strategic approach focuses on distilling core messaging down to its clearest and freshest visual form in order to elevate brand offerings

Bito is the pioneer of motion design and creative narratives in Asia. Specialising in crafting emotional and unforgettable experiences, Bito utilises a full spectrum of design — motion, branding, and experiential — to evoke emotions and captivate audiences. Bito's mission is to push the existing boundaries of design by bridging innovative technology with emotionally resonant experiences, all while empowering creative talents to impact the world.

studio fnt is a Seoul-based graphic design studio founded in 2006. The studio's three partners, Heesun Kim, Jaemin Lee, and Woogyung Geel, collaborate with a number of designers on various projects. Their capabilities include branding for corporate business, graphic design for exhibitions and cultural arts events, and other projects in various fields, sizes, and media. The studio specialises in collecting fragmented and straying thoughts, transforming them into relevant forms.

Based in Seoul, Studio Werk is a graphic design practice specialising in identity design and digital and printed materials for brands, institutions, and businesses since 2019. The practice was founded by Jaehoon Choi and delves into the exploration of standardised objects and symbolised schematic images, based on his interests in typological subject matter and industrial objects.

Play is founded on the belief that original, impactful work is best made using processes that do not feel like work. Based in San Francisco, they partner with visionary teams to build brands, campaigns and experiences using their combined capabilities in art direction, brand strategy, experiential design, illustration, and more.

Bakken & Bæck is a technology-driven design studio specialising in building digital products, brands, and businesses. The studio helps ambitious companies in identifying, exploring, and responding to new opportunities by building digital solutions from end-to-end.

Daily Dialogue is a creative consultancy founded in 2015. With a focus on design, development and cultural productions, they specialise in art direction and identities for brands and publications in the fields of culture, fashion and architecture. Global issues such as diversity and social justice are integral to their works.

Alphabet is a branding agency catering to individuals with global ambitions, valuing bold and brave ideas that are delivered with a refreshing sense of simplicity.

OlssønBarbieri is an internationally award-winning design studio, specialising in developing future-oriented brand identities with a focus on food and beverages. They have worked with a diverse range of clients, from ambitious startups to established companies, delivering conceptual and progressive design solutions with a high tenure of craft to help articulate their unique stories and establish meaningful relationships with audiences. They work with clients who share their values of forward-thinking, ethical responsibility, and a growing demand for products and experiences that are long-lasting, beautiful and meaningful.

Deux Huit Huit is a superdigital design office, specialising in a wide range of services including branding, digital design, and everything in between. Their expertise lies in helping businesses create a strong online and in-person presence that is easy to love.

Alex Hunting Studio is an award-winning creative agency based in London. Serving a global clientele, the agency provides creative consultancy, art direction, editorial direction, and content for cultural institutions, luxury, lifestyle, and media brands. Specialising in editorially driven design solutions for print and digital media, their work include visual identities, campaigns, publications, moving images, and websites.

Bedow is a design and branding studio based in Stockholm. For nearly two decades, it has earned a reputation for its progressive work and a roster of international clientele. Its work moves beyond the oft-lazily categorised "Scandinavian style," combining hand-drawn details, design craft, and artfulness to create simple, thoughtful, and practical designs that are easy to engage with and comfortable to have around.

Caserne is a design studio known for its sense of entrepreneurship and initiative. Their determination to turn ideas into action and create iconic brands springs from their clients’ unwavering trust.

Triboro is a Brooklyn-based studio founded by David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler. Since 2008, Triboro has created iconic design solutions for a global client base ranging from innovative startups to respected international brands.

Toby Ng Design is an award-winning independent branding and design studio formed by creative communicators. The studio works closely with clients to amplify their voices, communicating with value and substance that puts people first. They believe in the power of simplicity, distilling ideas to their essence and creating compelling messages that last.

Studio Lotta Nieminen is the award-winning creative practice of Lotta Nieminen, specialising in branding, art direction and graphic design for a wide range of global clients. With a multi-disciplinary approach, the studio brings concept-driven visual identities to life through thoughtfully crafted printed and digital implementations. Based in Helsinki, Studio Lotta Nieminen works closely with a network of collaborators to tailor the right team for the needs of each project.

PLANT is described as a multidisciplinary design studio that “wakes up in Reykjavík and goes to bed in São Paulo”. Led by Bruno Oppido, João Linneu, and Paula Obata, PLANT specialises in the conceptualisation of art direction and design across various industries. With a strong emphasis on concept development, they have the ability to create distinctive and impactful designs for clients of any size, from global market leaders to independent artists alike.

Indego Design is a brand visual image design team that specialises in providing unique targeted designs for clients in the commercial and cultural field. With a focus on corporate identity, event image, packaging and multimedia design, they are actively exploring the multitude of different possibilities in visual design.

Loksophy is a design studio based in Macau, founded by Hong Ka Lok in 2018. The studio specialises in creating branding, print, packaging, exhibitions, and advertisements, providing intellectual, passionate, and precise design solutions to create unique advantages in both cultural and commercial domains.