Top 40 Korean Design Agencies & Studios in 2026, by Specialty
A guide to the Korean design industry for junior designers and design students
Table of Contents
- Branding & BX (Brand Experience)
- UX/UI & Digital Product
- Integrated Brand Agencies & Marketing-Linked Firms
- Media Art & Immersive Content
- Product & Industrial Design
- Graphic, Editorial & Typography
- Spatial & Architectural Design
- Specialists & Emerging Studios
1. Branding & BX (Brand Experience)
Plus X
🔗 https://www.plus-ex.com · 📸 @plusx_creative
Founded in 2010, Plus X is one of Korea's leading brand experience design agencies, known for designing consistent experiences across every brand touchpoint. It offers integrated solutions spanning BX consulting, UI/UX, design systems, packaging, and motion graphics, while also operating its own lifestyle brand, Plus X Object, and the design education platform Share X. With more than 200 global awards, including Gold at the German Design Awards and multiple iF Design Awards, it is widely regarded as a top-tier agency in the field.
HuskyFox
🔗 https://huskyfox.com · 📸 @huskyfox.den
A branding specialist based in Nonhyeon-dong, Seoul, HuskyFox is particularly known for brand strategy and verbal branding. The firm prioritizes what it calls "upright brand value and experience" and has worked on identity design for notable domestic and international names including Naver Pay and LE SSERAFIM. It is especially strong at building clear and bold brand identities.
CFC (Content Form Context)
🔗 https://contentformcontext.com · 📸 @hithere.cfc
Founded in 2013 by designer Chae-ri Jeon, CFC is a brand experience design studio that focuses on analyzing content and building context to create effective brand experiences. The studio has collaborated with clients across a wide range of industries, including Olive Young, Tous Les Jours, Chilsung Cider, and YES24, and is known for highly refined work in brand identity and packaging design.
Total Impact
🔗 https://www.total-impact.net · 📸 @totalimpact_design
Drawing on a European-style Dutch design philosophy, Total Impact is a creative agency that designs holistic brand experiences in which a brand's philosophy remains consistent throughout. Based in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, it works across BX consulting, identity systems, and UX/UI digital platform design.
Infinite
🔗 https://www.infiniteseoul.com · 📸 Unconfirmed
With more than twenty years of experience, Infinite is an agency focused on brand management that captures and communicates a company's vision. Its core work includes corporate and brand identity, packaging, and communication design.
Ordinary People
🔗 https://ordinarypeople.info · 📸 @ordinarypeople.seoul
Ordinary People is a design studio that explores visual language through contemporary culture and modern technology, planning new modes of communication through active experimentation. It stands out especially in branding strategy, art direction, and visual communication within cultural and artistic contexts.
Eggplant Factory
🔗 https://www.eggplantfactory.co.kr · 📸 @eggplantfactory_official
As a creative partner for startups and small businesses, Eggplant Factory offers integrated solutions from early brand setup to BX identity building, packaging, spatial design, and marketing. It is a strong reference point for anyone interested in how small brands can be designed for growth from the beginning.
2. UX/UI & Digital Product
Rightbrain
🔗 http://rightbrain.co.kr · 📸 Unconfirmed
Located on Dosan-daero in Gangnam, Seoul, Rightbrain is a UX/UI-focused agency that designs low-friction digital experiences by closely analyzing user psychology and behavior. It has worked on digital transformation projects for major Korean companies including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, SK Telecom, and Shinhan Bank. The firm is particularly strong in AI chatbot and conversational voice UI design, and has won multiple grand prizes at the ANNUAL Awards.
Designfever
🔗 https://designfever.com · 📸 Unconfirmed
Founded in 2000, Designfever has grown alongside the history of Korea's digital agency scene. With around 100 digital specialists, the group has completed more than 838 large-scale projects and won over 184 domestic and international awards. Its core strengths lie in web and mobile interaction design as well as creative communication.
Duotone
🔗 https://duotone.io · 📸 @duotone.io
Duotone is a digital product agency known for digging into invisible root problems and building scalable systems. It offers data-driven solutions across UX research, design systems, and interaction design, and in the 2022 ANNUAL Awards all of its submitted projects won grand prizes. The team also runs the design education platform Openpass.
Vinyl I
🔗 https://www.vinyl-i.com · 📸 Unconfirmed
With a 25-year history, Vinyl I is a brand communication design studio and digital experience marketing group that has combined design with new media technology to earn recognition at global design awards. Its main areas include retail branding for physical spaces, interactive digital media, and UX/UI.
Studio Framer
🔗 https://studioframer.com · 📸 @studio_framer
Studio Framer specializes in website building, planning, and responsive layout design using the no-code tool Framer. With bases in Seongdong-gu and Gangnam-gu, Seoul, it focuses on website production, Framer engineering, and web-based branding.
3. Integrated Brand Agencies & Marketing-Linked Firms
BAT
🔗 https://batcrew.co.kr · 📸 @batseoul
With the vision that "brands change the world, and we build brands," BAT is a global integrated brand agency that combines brand strategy consulting, identity design, advertising campaigns, and data-driven performance marketing. Since its founding in 2016, it has worked with clients such as Kurly, Kakao, CJ CheilJedang, Hyundai Card, and Musinsa, and has grown rapidly to around 180 employees and annual revenue of KRW 56 billion. It is also a top-tier official partner of Google, Meta, and TikTok.
4. Media Art & Immersive Content
d'strict
🔗 https://www.dstrict.com · 📸 @dstrictholdings
Founded in 2004, d'strict is one of Korea's best-known digital design and art companies, internationally recognized for public media art works such as WAVE at COEX and WATERFALL in Times Square, New York. It also operates the immersive media art exhibition brand ARTE MUSEUM, which has attracted more than six million visitors, making it a leader in spatial experience through immersive content.
SILO Lab
🔗 https://silolab.kr · 📸 @silo_lab
SILO Lab is a creative group that believes in the power of spaces experienced and connected through the five senses, and creates immersive media environments that maximize sensory engagement. It is known for interactive media art, kinetic art, and lighting installations, including its 대표작 “Pungwha,” where hundreds of lanterns appear to float in reflected water.
Easywith
🔗 https://www.easywith.com · 📸 @easywith
Easywith is a specialist group that creates innovative immersive media art based on the optimal fusion of advanced technology and emotional UX. Based in Gangnam, Seoul, it has built a strong presence in digital signage platforms and retail new media.
CUZ
🔗 https://cuz-art.com · 📸 @cuzartgroup
Working at the intersection of art and technology, CUZ delivers approachable artistic inspiration to the public through AI-based digital content. Its work specializes in XR content, immersive installations, and AI media art production.
KALLOS
🔗 https://kallos.media · 📸 @kallos.media
KALLOS is a studio that works across visual art and interactive media, focusing on beauty itself somewhere between commercial and artistic visual language. Located in Seocho-gu, Seoul, it is particularly strong in media art installations and art space exhibitions.
Studio Artech
🔗 https://www.studio-artech.com · 📸 @studio_artech
With the philosophy of "drawing art with technology as a pen," Studio Artech is a Seongdong-gu-based studio that creates practical media design including IoT and AI data visualization as well as artworks linked with hardware systems.
Rebel9
🔗 https://www.rebel9.co.kr · 📸 @rebel9_
Rebel9 is a group grounded in cultural and artistic archives and in a rebel spirit that resists established forms, fusing data technology with physical space. Based in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, it specializes in convergent spatial design, experience-hall media, and digital archiving platforms.
2 Grey
🔗 https://www.2grey.com · 📸 @2grey_media / @2grey_cinematic
2 Grey is a Seoul-based creative studio highly specialized in design, film, and visual art, known for creating sensory media visuals. Its main areas are commercial film, visual art, new media, and graphic design.
5. Product & Industrial Design
GoDesign
🔗 http://www.godesign.co.kr · 📸 @godesign_medical
Founded in 2000, GoDesign is Korea's only design company focused 100 percent on medical devices and healthcare products. Over more than twenty years it has designed over 800 medical devices, supported by its proprietary 4S solution methodology covering ergonomics, user experience, certification, and trust. It ranked first among design companies in the K-Design Awards in both 2024 and 2025, and has won the PINUP Design Awards twenty times in total.
BKID
🔗 https://bkid.co · 📸 @bkid.co
Led by industrial designer Song Bong-gyu, BKID is a product design studio that moves fluidly across fields ranging from craft and high-tech to contemporary art. It has collaborated with global companies including BMW, Audi, Samsung Electronics, Dell, and Disney, and has won major international design awards such as iF, Red Dot, and the CES Innovation Awards.
SWNA
🔗 https://theswna.com · 📸 @swna.office
Founded by designer Lee Seok-woo, SWNA is an industrial design office that explores the relationship between objects and environments within human experience, aiming for interdisciplinary design beyond any single category. Its projects include the medals for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, Starbucks reusable cups, and work with brands such as BMW and Google. It also operates its own furniture brand, Liberal Office.
Citrus Design
🔗 https://citrusdesign.co.kr · 📸 @citrusdesign_kr
Located in Seocho-gu, Seoul, Citrus Design is an industrial product design agency with broad experience built through collaborations with diverse global clients. It is also strong in globally oriented digital experience design.
6. Graphic, Editorial & Typography
Ahn Graphics
🔗 https://agbook.co.kr/en/about · 📸 @ahngraphics
Founded in 1985 by designer Ahn Sang-soo, Ahn Graphics is a historic institution in Korean graphic design. It has pioneered typography and editorial design, and through the AG Typography Institute has developed original Korean typefaces such as Ahn Sang-soo and Hunminjeongeum styles. It is also considered one of the most professional and creative producers of design publishing in Korea.
Everyday Practice
🔗 https://everyday-practice.com · 📸 @hello_ep
Based in Mapo-gu, Seoul, Everyday Practice is a studio that pursues socially meaningful design through active dialogue and closely layered research rather than staying confined to two-dimensional form. It continues to produce notable work across graphic design, brand identity, and campaign planning.
Sulki and Min
🔗 https://sulki-min.com · 📸 @sulki_and_min
Working with the attitude of "clarity in work, ambiguity in fun," Sulki and Min is a graphic design duo active in culture and the arts. The duo is internationally recognized for precise yet experimental work spanning visual design, publications, identity systems, and typography.
Workroom Press
🔗 https://workroompress.kr · 📸 @workroompress
Located in Jongno-gu, Seoul, Workroom Press is a studio that plans book publishing and diverse visual art projects based on typography and editorial design. It has received steady attention in publishing, editorial work, and graphic design.
601bisang
🔗 http://www.601bisang.com · 📸 Unconfirmed
Based in Jongno-gu, Seoul, 601bisang pursues "design as culture" and creates new visual languages through calendars, art books, posters, and other forms. It has a distinct aesthetic in publishing projects and promotional graphics.
Studio Fnt
🔗 https://studiofnt.com · 📸 @studiofnt
Based in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Studio Fnt works across a wide range of media from branding to exhibitions and cultural events. It is particularly strong in brand identity, exhibition and performance graphics, and digital media design.
Chuigraf
🔗 https://chuigraf.kr · 📸 @chuigraf
Located in Mapo-gu, Seoul, Chuigraf explores balance between context and form, sensibility and technology. Its main areas are graphic design, brand experience, and editorial work.
ddbbmm
🔗 https://ddbbmm.kr · 📸 @ddbbmm.kr
Located in Jongno-gu, Seoul, ddbbmm is a graphic design studio that favors handmade and material-rich media and is deeply involved even in production processes. It has a strong presence in exhibition design, posters, and publication design.
Corners
🔗 https://corners.kr · 📸 @corners.kr
Based in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, Corners is a design studio active in domestic and international publishing and workshops centered on risograph printing. It has built a dedicated audience through graphic work that makes full use of risograph's unique textures and colors.
Paper Press
🔗 https://paperpress.kr · 📸 @paper_press
Starting from independent publishing, Paper Press is a one-person studio known for strong typographic expression and vivid 2D graphics based in print media. Its main focus is editorial design and brand logo work.
7. Spatial & Architectural Design
Labotory
🔗 http://www.labotory.com · 📸 @labotory_official
Located in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Labotory is a "space contextor" that builds distinctive brand experiences by embedding a brand's own story into space. It works integratively across architecture, interior architecture, spatial planning and design, and furniture design.
Post-standards
🔗 https://www.post-standards.com · 📸 @poststandards
Post-standards proposes new standards in design by removing meaningless decoration and building logical structures based on the necessary and sufficient functional conditions of objects. Its main work includes commercial spaces, pop-up store planning, architectural spatial design, and furniture design.
8. Specialists & Emerging Studios
HEAZ
🔗 https://heaz.com · 📸 @heaz
With multiple bases in Gangnam, Seoul, HEAZ focuses on packaging and brand experience at consumer touchpoints, especially for beauty and lifestyle brands. It is particularly specialized in packaging for cosmetics and lifestyle brands as well as pop-up space branding.
Sparks Edition
🔗 https://sparksedition.com · 📸 @sparksedition
Sparks Edition is a team that visualizes an artist's philosophy through a craft-oriented, hands-on approach. It is active in K-pop album visual identities, brand logos, and book design, and is known for its distinct sensibility.
Triangle Studio
🔗 http://www.triangle-studio.co.kr · 📸 @triangle_studio
Located in Mapo-gu, Seoul, Triangle Studio is an art and graphic design agency that develops branding, editorial design, illustration, and packaging design based on a blend of rational strategy and emotional harmony.
Studio Saworl
🔗 https://saworl.com · 📸 @studiosaworl
With bases in Gwangju and Seoul, Studio Saworl develops illustration-based visual art, spatial and exhibition design, and motion graphics under the philosophy that design is the realization of art for the public of its time.