Best Design Agencies in Buenos Aires (2026)

Introduction

Buenos Aires has one of the most established graphic design cultures in Latin America, and the 10 studios below show its range: packaging, signage, editorial, product, urban furniture and digital work. They were chosen for recent projects, the strength of their client lists and recognition such as Argentina’s Sello de Buen Diseño.

The city’s design scene runs on two tracks. Long-standing studios such as Diseño Shakespear and Tholön built many of the city’s large public and corporate programmes, from the Subte’s signage to YPF’s brand governance. A younger group of small studios takes on a lot of work for clients abroad, which the peso’s swings make attractive. In 2026 It’s Nice That and LBB Online covered work by Los Caballos and Ufficio for clients in New York and Barcelona.

Every studio here has an active Buenos Aires base in 2026. Strategy-led identity consultancies are covered on our branding page, and product and UX studios on the UX page. The list runs in no fixed order of merit, since the right studio depends on the brief, the medium and the budget.

The best design agencies in Buenos Aires

1. Diseño Shakespear

Independent · Martínez · shakespearweb.com

Ronald Shakespear founded the studio in 1960, and it is now run by his sons. It is best known for wayfinding and public identity in Buenos Aires: hospital signage in 1978, and the signage and branding of the Subte underground network between 1995 and 2008. The studio describes its work as graphic design, branding, identity consulting, packaging and signage.

Recent portfolio work includes Grido ice cream and the visual identity of Cataratas del Iguazú, both added in 2025. Other clients include Temaikèn, ITBA, Universidad Siglo 21, Newell’s Old Boys and Todomoda. The studio works from Martínez, in the northern suburbs.

2. Tridimage

Independent · Olivos · tridimage.com

Tridimage is a packaging specialist for mass-market brands, with its headquarters in Olivos and offices or contacts in Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. It treats packaging as both a design and a commercial problem, and publishes a packaging newsletter, Packnews, alongside a blog that was still active in August 2026.

Recent work includes the redesign of Matarazzo pasta and its premium Rina Matarazzo line for Molinos Río de la Plata, Pequeñín baby wipes for Essity and Pixol detergent for Grupo Cavallaro. It suits FMCG teams that need a range redesigned across several Latin American markets.

3. Que Cálido Studio

Independent · Colegiales · quecalido.com

Que Cálido is a branding and packaging studio in Colegiales that focuses on food, hospitality and culture-led brands. Its work runs from naming and identity to packaging, motion graphics, spatial design and restaurant concepts. Argentina’s foreign ministry lists it among the country’s design exporters, with two LAD Awards and a Sello de Buen Diseño.

Projects include rebranding work for Galicia and Swiss Medical, branding for 5020 Records (a Sony Music label), packaging for Chimichurri to the People and branding and packaging for Calm mattresses and NotCo in Mexico. The studio also lists an address in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

4. Tholön

Independent · Buenos Aires · tholon.com

Tholön has designed identities and corporate publications from Buenos Aires for more than 25 years. Its practice has three strands: branding and packaging, corporate publications such as annual, sustainability and integrated reports, and book design.

Clients include Visit Argentina (the destination brand for the national tourism ministry), Faena Hotel, Alma restaurant at Sofitel Buenos Aires, the Feria del Libro and Mediapro. It has handled brand governance for YPF for more than a decade and designs reports for Arcor and ArcelorMittal Acindar. A good fit for companies with heavy annual print and reporting needs.

5. Estudio Poncho

Independent · Buenos Aires · helloponcho.com

Poncho was founded in Buenos Aires in 2016 and works across branding, packaging, web, naming, illustration and motion graphics. Its identity for Eleven Films received a Sello de Buen Diseño, and its packaging for Kim & Kimmy, a baby care brand for the Middle East, was featured by Brand New.

Other work includes the Ensō skincare range, a rebrand for Cilux lighting, the identity for Expo 2023 and design and motion work for HBO Max and Mula Films on Bilardo: El Doctor del Fútbol. It has also worked on ATP Tour projects with SiftCreative in Los Angeles.

6. Ufficio

Independent · Buenos Aires · ufficio.studio

Ufficio is a small design office founded in 2023 by Sofía Noceti and Crista Bernasconi, who had each worked independently for around a decade. It combines identity work with craft and research, and its services run from art direction and naming to packaging, editorial, surface design and set design. It’s Nice That profiled the studio in January 2025.

Clients include Tupé eyewear, the streetwear label Populaire and the activewear brand Heraia. In April 2026 LBB Online covered its rebrand of Niceshit, the Barcelona animation studio, which included a new logo, colour system and bespoke typeface.

7. Los Caballos

Independent · Buenos Aires · loscaballos.xyz

Los Caballos designs websites and identity systems for musicians, artists and cultural institutions. The studio is directed by Nico Di Filippo and works across web design and development, branding, illustration and social media systems.

In July 2026 It’s Nice That featured its social media visual system for Public Records, the Brooklyn music venue, for which it had already built the website. Other clients include Tini, Bizarrap and Milo J, Juan Ingaramo, ArgentinaCine and Rudo. Music and entertainment teams will find most of its portfolio relevant.

8. clan-paraná

Independent · Buenos Aires · clanparana.com

clan-paraná is a multidisciplinary studio on Paraná street in central Buenos Aires. It covers identity, editorial, packaging, exhibition design, motion and interactive work, and builds websites in-house. Its identity for Fundación Espigas, which preserves Argentine and Latin American art documentation, received a Sello de Buen Diseño.

It has kept long relationships with cultural clients, including a decade of identity work for the Henrique Faria gallery in Buenos Aires and New York. Other projects include UX and visual work for Mercado Libre’s Mercado Shops, and work for Chequeado, the Casa Museo María Elena Walsh and Instituto Oncológico Henry Moore.

9. Polenta

Independent · Buenos Aires · polenta.ar

Polenta is a multidisciplinary studio that combines product, digital and communication design, with offices in Buenos Aires and Barcelona. It also runs its own furniture and urban furniture brands, Tak Tak and Molo Urbano. Its projects have won first prize at the FADU Bienal Nacional de Diseño, several Sello de Buen Diseño distinctions and mentions at the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño in 2024.

Its best-known public project is the infant sleep kit for Argentina’s health ministry, first as Qunita and later redesigned as Sueño Seguro. Clients also include Le Monde Diplomatique, Fernet Branca, Gancia, Natura and Fundación Balseiro, for which it built a physics experiment kit for primary schools.

10. Estudio Cabeza

Independent · Palermo · estudiocabeza.com

Estudio Cabeza designs, manufactures and sells street furniture for public space: benches, tables, planters, drinking fountains, bike racks, bollards and tree guards. It also takes design commissions for urban, institutional, private and site-specific projects.

Its Aéreo seating system received the Sello de Buen Diseño argentino in 2026 from the national design programme. It is the most specialised studio here, and the natural choice for developers, municipalities and landscape architects who need furniture designed and built locally.

What to look for in a Buenos Aires design studio

Match the studio to the medium. The city’s best design work is spread across specialists: Tridimage for mass-market packaging, Diseño Shakespear for signage, Tholön for reports and books, Estudio Cabeza for street furniture. Generalist studios can cover a lot, but a packaging range or a wayfinding system benefits from people who have produced several before.

Look at production as well as design. Packaging, signage and furniture all depend on local printers, converters and fabricators, and established Buenos Aires studios have long relationships with them. Ask who supervises print runs or prototypes, and whether the studio has worked with your manufacturer before.

Agree on currency and payment terms early. Many studios here now work for clients in the US, Europe and the Middle East, and quote in US dollars for export work. That arrangement can be good value for overseas clients, but it helps to fix the currency, payment schedule and number of revision rounds in the proposal.

Ask how review will work across time zones. A Buenos Aires studio working with a team in Madrid or New York will often share artwork, packaging renders and motion tests while the client is offline. Studios that keep the latest files in one place and collect comments directly on the work make those rounds shorter, and leave a clearer record of what was approved.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best design agency in Buenos Aires?

It depends on the work. For packaging, Tridimage and Que Cálido Studio have the strongest recent portfolios on this list. For signage and public identity, Diseño Shakespear has the longest record, and for corporate reports and books, Tholön.

Which Buenos Aires design studios work for international clients?

Several of them. Tridimage has offices in Central America, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. Que Cálido lists an address in New Mexico, Polenta has an office in Barcelona, and Los Caballos and Ufficio have recent clients in New York and Barcelona.

What is the Sello de Buen Diseño?

It is Argentina’s national good design distinction, granted through the national design programme. Studios on this list that hold it for recent projects include Estudio Cabeza (2026), Estudio Poncho, Que Cálido Studio, clan-paraná and Polenta.

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

Design studios on this list make the finished work: packaging, signage, books, websites and furniture. Branding agencies lead with strategy, positioning and naming before identity design. For strategy-led firms, see the best branding agencies in Buenos Aires.

Where are design studios in Buenos Aires based?

Mostly in Palermo, Colegiales and the city centre, with some long-established firms in the northern suburbs. Diseño Shakespear works from Martínez and Tridimage from Olivos, both in Greater Buenos Aires.

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