Without a doubt, the WWW is indeed a wonderful place. It’s full of beautiful and professionally designed websites; but is there a creative team (within the company) behind each of these corporate websites? Our guess is probably no.
Most of the time, design studio and agency are the unsung heroes behind most of these great production. Formed by group of passionate designers and developers, these folks understand exactly what their client needs. Not only their work are source of inspiration for many designers, they are also trend setters.
Without further ado, we’d like to reveal you some of the group responsible for great websites we visit everyday. In no particular order, we present 50 Trend-setting Design Studios and Agencies. Full list after jump.
31three
The design studio of Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain [View portfolio]
45Royale Inc
Enthusiastic web design studio located near the bustling metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia. As little as 2 man compnay, these folks has done great jobs from planning, designing to managing. [View portfolio]
Mass Appeal
Japanese design house with awesome lots of portfolio.
Mjarosz
Weightshift
small person-driven studio currently based in Chicago encompassing a wide range and variety of work, never limiting itself to one kind of client or type of work. [View portfolio]
Webreakstuff
A design, development and product strategy company [View portfolio]
Lounge Lizard
Website design and marketing agency servicing agency. [View portfolio]
Arlo
Small in size, but design for big names; Nike, American Eagle Outfitters, & Effen Vodk. [View portfolio]
Wonderful Union
Award-winning interactive design firm located in Seattle with great clients portfolio inlcuding including Dreamworks, Getty Images, Microsoft, Nintendo, Xbox and Zune. [View portfolio]
Tomato
Cute name, almost 20 years of industry experience. [View portfolio]
Tolleson Design
With expertise in identity, print, packaging, interactivity and environments, the Tolleson studio crafts initiatives that integrate multiple disciplines. [View portfolio]
Toky
Offering expertise in branding, advertising, print and web design.
Wake Interactive
Creative, agile and passionate web design agency based in Boca Raton, Florida. [View portfolio]
VSA Partners
Graphic design house with designing as center of gravity. [View portfolio]
Un.Titled
Eclectric group of thinkers, designers, programmers and artists.[View portfolio]
Clearleft
Team of eight specialists: designers, developers, authors, thinkers and web afficionados. [View portfolio]
Vasava
A team of 10 young people from various fields and disciplines. [View portfolio]
TurnStyle
AgencyNet
Design studio based in New York City, NY and Fort Lauderdale, FL
2Advanced Studio
Founded by its Chief Creative Director Eric Jordan, 2advanced is perhaps one of the best in the industry.
TargetScope
Full service integrated marketing firm made up of a highly trained group of technology, communication and marketing specialists.
Creaktif
Complete design studio working in print, film and interactive mediums based in France
Toko Design Sydney
Multi-disciplinary design studio working for national and international clients in a broad range of fields.
Tilt Design Studio
The Design Chapel
Teehan + lax
Founded by Teehan and Lax, the company was built by creative people for creative people.[View portfolio]
TAK!
Independent digital agency based in Birmingham, UK. [View portfolio]
Stuff And Nonsense
Small but gained big reputation for creating strong designs and highly accessible web sites. [View portfolio]
Studio K
Stopdesign
Founded by Douglas Bowman, the creative director of Twitter.[View portfolio]
Sofake
SOFA
Small privately held company that specialized in interaction design. [View portfolio]
SmashLab
Big SpaceShip
Innogavtion-led digital creative agency.
Schematic
Pod1
Pod1 is a growing team of 50+ creative, strategic and technical specialists all extremely passionate about the digital and creative industries and what they do. [View portfolio]
ilovedust
Specialized in graphic design, illustration, motion graphics and product design.
KBP
Magnani Caruso Duttion
Independent interactive agency helping some of the world’s most recognizable brands to mange their business online. [View portfolio]
Wiredrive
Wiredrive sets a new standard for online production and presentation, backed by a team of people who are redefining the landscape of digital workflow. [View portfolio]
Fantasy Interactive (Fi)
Fi delivers premium interactive services and media platforms. [View portfolio]
Leo Burnett
Hybrid Works
Happy Cog
The folks behind AIGA and Wordpress blog platform web design.[View portfolio]
Metalab
Tiny interface design studio that creates simple, fast hyper usable websites and interfaces
Juxt Interactive
jUXT is a company that creates from the ground up, top to bottom, or even sideways. It kinda makes sense since we were started by a couple of architects. [View portfolio]
SimpleBits
SimpleBits designs and builds simple, usable, and attractive interfaces that account for speed, file size, readability and accessibility using web standards. [View portfolio]
Meta Design
NDesign Studio
Description [View portfolio]
Fuse Project
You know more?
There are definietely more great design studios out there that makes what we have here merely scratching the surface. If you know more, we appreaciate a heads up. We’ll either this current post, or create a sequel.
Leave your suggestions at the comment box below, thanks :-)
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Comments
gurru April 7th, 2009
This can be useful.Thanks
ReplyPaul McCormack April 7th, 2009
Refreshing to see all well established agencies here, so many similar lists contain student or freelance designers with a couple of years experience but it’s great to see many of the great and good here.
ReplyAs you say there are many more that could be listed what about looking at the broader picture and including the likes of Sagmeister Inc, Pentagram, Frost Design, Spin, Research Studios, I could go on…
klausy April 7th, 2009
Thanks for the list, very impressive, but http://www.designchapel.com/ kicks ass, keep it up guys, your creativity is unmatched.
ReplyLen Kendall April 7th, 2009
I would like to nominate Critical Mass.
ReplyAdam Tal April 7th, 2009
Waht about carsonified.com? Not exactly an agency, but definitely a trend setting company.
ReplyDakotaSiouxCasino April 7th, 2009
Impressive, very good artwork.
ReplyFazai38 April 7th, 2009
Thanks for sharing…
I Think barbarian Group should be in as well..
Replyhttp://www.barbariangroup.com/
MikeJay April 7th, 2009
I would reccomend you those studios:
Replyhttp://www.lessrain.com
http://www.blocmedia.com
Mike April 7th, 2009
What about http://www.elipseagency.com?
ReplyDepoCasino April 7th, 2009
wow, great designs.
Replypawel April 8th, 2009
why did you include site like mjarosz.com? this is really lame site, not only design is lame and full of usability problems but really there is nothing interesting in there, looks like it was done by 17 year old kid with a basic knowledge of flash and psd. I just would like to know what was the reason?
Pawel
ReplyHeather April 8th, 2009
How about Liquid 9 or Dept Zero in Kansas City? Great ones there.
ReplyDom April 8th, 2009
Many thanks for picking us in your top list!
TAK!
Replyjoyoge designers' bookmark April 8th, 2009
great artworks thanks for the list..
ReplyRoswell ga real estate April 8th, 2009
These are great!, thanks for the great list! I enjoyed the fuse project among others!
ReplySlava Kaushan April 8th, 2009
Very nice list guys!
Thank you!
just fix the link in 31three – it gives 404 now
ReplyClifton April 8th, 2009
How about REACTOR, one of the premier, small studios in the midwest.
Replyhttp://www.yourreactor.com
chicago web design April 8th, 2009
Thank you for putting this list together.
Replyblinkky April 8th, 2009
it’s really nice. Keep the good work. =)
ReplyEllisIslandCasinoLasVegas April 8th, 2009
Thanks for the information.
ReplyLineker Tomazeli April 8th, 2009
thanks man… check this one http://www.baldgorilla.com
Reply:D
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Good post, thanks for the info.
Replygardizzone April 9th, 2009
Check out http://www.chutegerdeman.com!!
ReplyY920.com April 9th, 2009
Good One
ReplyMia April 9th, 2009
Great list.
ReplyAlso check out http://www.stratigo.com, a mid-size quality studio in Israel
FreeSlotMachinesAndVideoPoker April 10th, 2009
Great, thanks for the post
ReplyDesign Jar April 10th, 2009
Great list of design Sites, Clear left have to be one of the most influential designers around in my opinion.
ReplyEdgeWaterHotelCasinoLaughlin April 10th, 2009
Amazing job with this… incredible
ReplyFreeOnlineKeno April 10th, 2009
awesome artwork.
ReplyPrzemek April 11th, 2009
Niiiice articles! Thank You
ReplyAndrew Cornett April 11th, 2009
Great list, also check out http://www.nclud.com — a creative web design agency from DC!
Replyblinkky April 11th, 2009
a lot of creative works….
ReplyRahul April 11th, 2009
Certainly, one of the best showcase of the best design studios. Pretty impressive as always.
Replylida diyet zayiflama r10seoogle April 12th, 2009
thank you
Replymissmojito April 12th, 2009
great showcase
i can’t believe Sid Lee from Montréal (and now amsterdam) is not there though… with the new Adidas campagin surely everyone has heard about them now.
ReplyLola April 14th, 2009
Trendsetting ? The design (minus one or two) is atrocious !
ReplyPradeep CD April 24th, 2009
Yes, they are trend setting…
Replygullip Stone April 25th, 2009
check this, I found yesterday http://socialsnack.com
ReplyRoswell ga real estate April 26th, 2009
They are nice, I wouldn’t say cutting edge, but definitely nice!
ReplyRoy Vergara April 28th, 2009
this guy is using your content and hotlinking without permission apprently. http://www.dzinepress.com/2009/04/50-designs-of-studios-and-agencies/
he did the same thing to one of my articles. just giving you a heads up.http://www.dzinepress.com/2009/03/40-beautiful-psd-slicing-websites/
Replyhongkiat April 28th, 2009
@Roy Thanks man, we’ll deal with that :-)
ReplySmartyCZ May 2nd, 2009
http://www.24-7media.de isn’t mentioned here. Please, add it to the list.
ReplySelin Mani May 13th, 2009
List is very impressive, waiting to see more and selection criteria is not that clear. Kudos to team
ReplyDavid June 7th, 2009
Who would be a viable competitor to 2Advanced Studios?
I use to use there services and find their creative talent truly amazing. However, for technical repairs and delivery to projects that work correctly and/or on time is horrific. Or, at least my experience as a client has been nothing short of a nightmare.
Would anyone here recommend a design agency that can build flash elements equally as good as 2A?
Replyanne June 20th, 2009
What about Method in San Francisco? The PBS video work, Ted.com, H&C, Boxee..
ReplyPelFusion June 20th, 2009
really impressive collection…2Advanced Studio is very nice they can do really amazing stuff with Flash
ReplyDesigning Studios June 26th, 2009
Experts in web design services, tableless design, and in converting design to html, psd to html, xhtml, Designing Studios, DesigningStudios
ReplyDano August 1st, 2009
Check this http://www.ikidesign.com.mx they from Mexico
ReplyImad Qtishat August 4th, 2009
Good, but i’d like to add here the http://www.qtishat.com where you can your work done by professionasl.
ReplyErvin Zelayya August 14th, 2009
very nice…this was very helpful to me, being the fact that i am opening my own agency…thanks alot!
ReplyLimonacella October 24th, 2009
Thanks for sharing those are really cool…
I think DEPO creative should be in as well..
their works are really inspiring and cool, here is the blog adress i have found
http://depocreative.blogspot.com
there is also a link to their flash web site,, hope you’ll like to…
Replythanks a lot! :)
plywood chennai November 5th, 2009
The trend setting for these designs are awesome and Excellent
Replyseo faqs November 21st, 2009
Thanks for sharing trend-setting-design-studios-agencies
ReplyEphex studio November 24th, 2009
Nice gallery visit:www.ephexst.com
Replycoach November 27th, 2009
Just wanted to say great job with the blog, today is my first visit here and I’ve .
Replyweight November 27th, 2009
Nice gallery visit:www.ephexst.com
Replyelectronic November 27th, 2009
Thanks for sharing trend-setting-design-studios-agencies
ReplySandeep January 12th, 2010
Nice 2 See such a great things @ one place…
ReplyMohamed Sohel E.K January 26th, 2010
Hi there ,
ReplyI would like to know whether you have a office in Benglaru . re For discussing certain design for my hotel appartment in Bangalore.
Payal February 5th, 2010
brilliant stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!…StudioKxx has bowled me over!..You’ve got a fan here! :)
Replyalex February 16th, 2010
nice… but i did not see any japanese studio and there are stunning design there… probably the best would be tokyoplastic http://www.tokyoplastic.com
Replysofter February 19th, 2010
there is nothing to add, all is correctly described!
ReplyToni Gemayel March 6th, 2010
45 royale & Happy cog are the most impressive of them all in my opinion. These giants are great inspiration for small fry like myself.
ReplyΚατασκευή ιστοσελίδων March 14th, 2010
nice gallery! κατασκευη ιστοσελιδων
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