Best Branding Agencies in Oslo (2026)

Introduction

Oslo has a compact but strong branding scene, and the 10 agencies below cover most of what a Norwegian or international client is likely to need: brand strategy, naming, visual identity, packaging and the design systems that hold it all together.

The biggest change of the last two years was consolidation. In November 2024 Neue Design Studio and Heydays merged with the Swedish agency Kurppa Hosk under the Kurppa Hosk name, inside the Eidra group, creating what the studios describe as Scandinavia’s largest branding agency. Scandinavian Design Group now works as part of TBWA Norway. Much of the city’s recent identity work has followed its client base: energy and electric mobility (Kople, DEFA, Zaptec, Aneo), banking (Sparebanken Norge, SpareBank 1, Sbanken), seafood and public culture, from Nasjonalmuseet to the Oslo Philharmonic.

Every agency here has an active Oslo office in 2026, checked against its own site or its Kampanje agency guide entry. Multidisciplinary studios such as Snøhetta and Bielke&Yang appear on our design agencies list. The list runs in no fixed order of merit, since the right choice depends on the brief, the budget and how you like to work.

The best branding agencies in Oslo

1. Kurppa Hosk

Part of Eidra · Sentrum · kurppahosk.com

Kurppa Hosk is a Stockholm-founded brand agency whose Oslo office absorbed two of the city’s best-known studios, Neue Design Studio and Heydays, in a November 2024 merger. It belongs to Eidra, a Nordic consultancy collective, and works from Stockholm, Oslo and New York with more than 200 people in total, according to its Kampanje listing.

The Oslo team led the new visual identity for SAS and designed the new logo for Sparebanken Norge, where around 1,000 variants were tested before the final mark. Other recent Norwegian work includes identities for the trade titles TU and Digi, the IT consultancy Systek and Myken Destilleri. Telenor and Innovation Norway are listed among its clients.

2. Scandinavian Design Group

TBWA network (Omnicom) · Sentrum · sdg.no

Scandinavian Design Group, usually shortened to SDG, is a brand and design agency that now operates as part of TBWA Norway. Kampanje lists 27 employees. Its branding and website for Canadian Seafood Treasures were nominated in two categories at Visuelt 2025.

The client list leans on Norwegian finance, energy and consumer brands: Vipps, SpareBank 1, Fremtind, Zaptec, Aneo, Amerikalinjen, Kolonihagen, Maxbo and Brand Norway. SDG also designs beer packaging for Aass and has worked with Norisma for 12 years, which says something about how long its relationships run.

3. Mission

Independent · Bjørvika · mission.no

Mission, formerly Mission Design, is a brand agency in Bjørvika, close to the Opera House. Its site promotes Point of purpose, a book on purpose-led brand building by Bård Annweiler, and the agency’s work tends to start from that strategic layer before moving into identity and design.

Its portfolio includes work for Sporveien, Narvesen, Reitan Convenience, Grieg Group, Eika, Berg Sparebank, Eyder Fuels and BAMA Storkjøkken. Retail and transport clients feature heavily, so it suits brands that live in physical spaces as much as on screens.

4. Metric Design

Independent · Sentrum · metricdesign.no

Metric Design is a design studio at St. Olavs plass that builds identities from strong visual concepts. Its services run from brand strategy and guidelines to wayfinding, packaging, iconography, animation and UX/UI.

Cultural institutions make up a large share of the work: identities for Nasjonalmuseet and the Oslo Philharmonic, and wayfinding for the National Museum. It has also published a case study on its design proposals for Norway’s banknotes, and has worked with Living Optics and the Norwegian Chess Federation (Norges Sjakkforbund).

5. Bleed

Independent, founder-led · Grünerløkka · bleed.com

Bleed is a Scandinavian design studio on Thorvald Meyers gate, run by CEO Christoffer Nøkleby and founding partner and creative director Svein Haakon Lia. Nearly every project on its site combines strategy, visual identity, a design system and motion, and several include naming.

Clients range from tech and cleantech (Sanity, Morrow Batteries, Equatic, Mycela) to banking (Sbanken, where Bleed handled naming and identity) and broadcasting (TV 2 Play, Austria’s ORF1). It has also done identity work for the Natural History Museum and the Historical Museum in Oslo, and for the Norwegian jewellery brand Tom Wood.

6. Dinamo

Independent · Sentrum · dinamo.no

Dinamo is a creative group on Tullins gate made up of two units, Dinamo Design and Dinamo Reklame og Innhold, which often work together on the same account. The design unit is led by Turid Rønningen and has been hiring, and Dinamo has won a public tender ahead of 18 other agencies.

A good example of its brand work is the identity and concept “Livet er mer enn lading” for the EV charging operator Kople, a fitting brief in a country where electric cars dominate new sales. Dinamo is Miljøfyrtårn certified, which matters to some public-sector buyers.

7. ANTI

Independent, founder-led · Grünerløkka · anti.as

ANTI is a creative studio on Sofienberggata that builds brands, makes advertising and produces TV and podcast stories. Its branding offer covers positioning, research, naming, identity, packaging, typefaces and design systems. Kenneth Pedersen is CEO and founding partner, and Kristin Eikeland Grimstad is managing director. ANTI took the most nominations at Visuelt in 2024.

Recent brand work includes an international brand for Dory, a Norwegian door-sign company, and the launch campaign for DEFA’s EV charging station. Byggmax moved its account to ANTI, and the studio also works with Ulvang and NRK. It suits clients who want identity and campaign work from the same team.

8. KIND

Independent · Oslo and Bergen · kindworldwide.com

KIND is a full-service branding agency founded in 2013, headquartered in Bergen, with offices in Oslo and Aberdeen. The World Brand Design Society has named it Global Agency of the Year five years in a row, and it has also been named Europe’s best agency at the European Design Awards.

Much of its work is for seafood, aquaculture and maritime brands, including Hima Seafood’s land-based trout farm in Rjukan, the snow crab brand Gyda and the cargo fleet Veer. Santander named KIND its branding agency in Norway, and it developed the brand for BMW’s Icon marine project.

9. Metro Branding

Independent · Sentrum · metrobranding.no

Metro Branding has been building Norwegian brands since 2004 and works from Nedre Vollgate in Oslo and from Sandefjord. Kampanje lists 26 employees, and the agency has merged with Seeds Consulting to strengthen its strategy offer.

Its work runs from brand strategy and renaming to employer branding, digital and content. Cases include Flexit and Blomqvist, and it won a tender for NDLA, the Norwegian digital learning resource. It is a practical choice for mid-sized companies that want strategy and execution from one agency.

10. Supernordic Creative Studio

Independent · Sentrum · supernordic.com

Supernordic is a small creative studio on Torggata that works across rebranding, strategic positioning and campaigns. It keeps a short portfolio and lets a few large projects carry it.

The main one is Arbion Industries, the former Vow Green Metals, which chose Supernordic through a pitch for its new name, repositioning and an industrial brand world. The studio also made a campaign for the Anti-Racist Center built around five personal stories and close portrait photography.

What to look for in an Oslo branding agency

Decide first how much strategy you need. Some agencies on this list, such as Mission and Metro Branding, start with positioning and brand platforms and treat design as the expression of that work. Others, including Metric Design and Bleed, lead with a strong visual concept and build the system around it. Both approaches produce good brands, but they suit different starting points.

Ownership has changed the market. Kurppa Hosk is part of Eidra and SDG sits within TBWA, which gives access to wider teams for digital builds, communications and international roll-outs. Independent studios tend to keep the same senior people on the project from pitch to launch. Ask who will lead your work, by name, and how much of the team sits in Oslo.

Look closely at the sector track record. Oslo agencies have deep experience with banks, energy and electric mobility, seafood and public culture, and an agency that has worked through a bank’s compliance reviews or a museum’s tender process will usually move faster. Public bodies often buy through tenders, so check that the agency regularly bids and wins them.

Finally, think about what happens after the launch. A new identity lives in logo files, typefaces, templates, guidelines and photography libraries, and it needs to reach printers, web teams and partner agencies in the right version. Agree early how files will be handed over, where the brand guidelines will live and how feedback will be gathered during the design rounds.

How Fabric helps branding agency teams

Fabric gives a branding studio one workspace for its files, client feedback and project knowledge, with AI search across all of it. The brand identity setup is built around how identity projects run: research, strategy decks, sketches, logo rounds and final assets kept together for each client.

Identity work produces a lot of heavy files. Fabric’s cloud drive streams them on demand, so they take no local disk space and open without a full download. Search works by meaning across documents, images and PDFs, and colour search finds visual assets by shade, which helps when a team is pulling references from years of past projects. Similar search finds related images by composition, colour and subject.

Design rounds run through sharing. A studio can share a folder of logo options with the client as a commenter, and the client opens it through a link without signing up. With annotations, commenters draw on an image and attach a comment to the drawing, highlight and comment on a PDF of the guidelines, and leave timestamped comments on a brand film or sonic logo. The team marks each comment completed as it is resolved, so feedback works like a checklist.

When the brand is signed off, the guidelines folder can be published as a web page that partners can view and, if you allow it, download from, and it updates when the source files change. Published pages are view-only. Password protection keeps unreleased identities private, and link analytics shows when each named recipient opened a pitch or presentation. There is more on this in our guide to hosting brand guidelines.

Password protection and link analytics are included on Pro and Team plans, and self-writing client docs on Team plans. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best branding agency in Oslo?

There is no single answer, since it depends on the brief. Kurppa Hosk describes itself as Scandinavia’s largest branding agency after its 2024 merger with Neue and Heydays, KIND has the strongest record in international design rankings, and smaller studios such as Bleed and Metric Design are well known for identity and cultural work.

What happened to Neue Design Studio and Heydays?

Both merged with Kurppa Hosk in November 2024 and now work under the Kurppa Hosk name in Oslo, as part of the Eidra group.

What is the difference between a branding agency and a design agency?

A branding agency usually starts with strategy, positioning and naming, then builds the identity from that. A design agency covers a wider range of disciplines, often including spatial, product and editorial design. Many Oslo studios do both, and our list of design agencies in Oslo covers the multidisciplinary studios.

Which Oslo agencies handle naming?

Several on this list include naming in their branding work. Bleed named Sbanken and Equatic, KIND handled naming for Gyda and Veer, Supernordic renamed Vow Green Metals as Arbion Industries, and ANTI lists naming among its strategy services.

How do branding agencies share design rounds with clients?

A common approach is to share work through a link the client can comment on, then track feedback until each point is resolved. In Fabric, clients with commenter access can draw on logo options, comment on guideline PDFs and leave timestamped notes on brand films, and the agency marks each comment completed.

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