Best Design Agencies in Mumbai (2026)

Introduction

Mumbai’s design scene is built largely on small, founder-led studios that move between identity, packaging, print, illustration and spatial projects. The 7 studios below were chosen for the range of their work, their client rosters and evidence of a working base in the Mumbai region.

Food and drink packaging has been one of the city’s most visible outputs. A 2024 It’s Nice That feature on Indian packaging said the food and drink brands it covered were created largely by Mumbai-based studios, with Subko and Bombay Sweet Shop among its examples. Kyoorius, which runs one of India’s main creative awards programmes, is also based in the city and held its 2025 awards at the Jio World Convention Centre.

Every studio here shows a Mumbai or Thane base on a page we checked. The list is shorter than others in this series because we left out any firm we could not place in the city, and it runs in no fixed order of merit. Strategy-led identity specialists and product design firms are covered on separate pages.

The best design agencies in Mumbai

1. Bombay Duck Designs

Founder-led · Mumbai · bombayduckdesigns.com

Bombay Duck Designs was founded in 2008 by the visual artist Sameer Kulavoor, and Zeenat Kulavoor, a multidisciplinary artist, has led its creative direction since 2015. Its range is wide for a small studio: brand identities, publications, illustration, packaging, murals, exhibits, installations, motion graphics and stage design.

Clients on its site include Google India, Eicher Motors, Goethe Institute Mumbai, Hunger Inc, Diageo, GitHub, Red Bull and Nike, and its project list includes work for TARQ dated 2024 and 2025. AIGA’s Eye on Design reported a core team of four plus freelancers in 2019, so ask how a larger project would be staffed.

2. Thought Over Design

Founder-led · Mumbai · thoughtoverdesign.com

Thought Over Design is a brand strategy and design studio led by its founder and creative director, Anushka Sani. It describes its focus as building challenger brands in India, and its work covers strategy, naming, packaging, UX and UI, brand campaigns and script writing.

Recent work includes seasonal packaging for the ice cream brand Hocco, a brand campaign for Ugaoo featuring Jackie Shroff, and strategy, naming, branding and UI for The Whole Truth. It also made the packaging for the regional snack brand Pattri, which draws on Indian Railways colours and stencilled type. A 2024 feature placed the studio in both Bombay and Goa, so it is worth asking where your team would sit.

3. Mother Tongue Design

Founder-led · Mumbai · creativebrandsmag.com profile

Mother Tongue Design was founded in 2012 by Shruti Singhi, who remains its creative director. The studio covers brand strategy, identity, packaging, wayfinding and digital platforms, and a May 2026 profile cites honours from e4m and India’s Best Design Awards in 2024.

Forest Essentials and Vahdam are among the brands it has helped reposition, and its packaging for Vahdam’s global spice line was featured in a 2024 roundup of Indian studios. Other names on its roster include P•TAL, Maska and Tiger Tales. It may suit brands that want Indian cultural references carried across packaging and physical spaces.

4. Studio Bigfat

Independent · Mumbai · studiobigfat.com

Studio Bigfat is an independent, multidisciplinary studio founded by Aniruddh Mehta, working across branding, packaging, brand strategy, graphic design, digital illustration and motion.

Work covered in the design press includes the identity and packaging for Subko’s coffees and chocolates, built around a tri-script lockup in Devanagari, English and Urdu. It also designed the identity and packaging for the Goan spirit Goenchi Feni. The site does not publish a client list, so ask for recent case studies when making contact.

5. The Turtle Story

Branding and packaging studio · Thane · theturtlestory.com

The Turtle Story works from Wagle Estate in Thane and combines branding and packaging with exhibition, booth and retail space design. The studio says its work has been featured by The Dieline, World Brand Design Society and Pack of the Week.

Clients on its site include Khimji Jewellers, Pepperfry, Polo Hotels Group, ORA, Ageas Federal and Abbott (for Skinnable). It may suit a brand that needs a trade stand or retail space to come from the same team as the packaging.

6. Sosh Design

Led by Surfraaz Gola · Byculla · soshdesign.com

Sosh Design is a brand and packaging consultancy led by Surfraaz Gola and founded in 2008, according to its Clutch profile. Its services run from brand strategy and visual identity to packaging, websites, marketing communication and property branding for real estate.

Its homepage shows logo and branding work for McDonald’s, Being Human, Reid & Taylor and Multichem, along with packaging and property branding for Nayara Energy. Clutch lists a mix of small, midmarket and enterprise clients, which makes it a reasonable option for companies that need a broad brand system.

7. Abstrct Design

Founder-led · Kalbadevi · abstrctdesign.com

Abstrct Design, formerly 152Co., is a Kalbadevi studio founded in 2020 by Ibrahim Attarwala, according to its Clutch profile. Graphic design makes up about half of its work there, with branding, logos and packaging accounting for the rest.

Named work includes projects for Titan, Sunsilk, Sleak pads and the ABECA Awards, and Clutch reviewers include Darwinbox and Info Edge. The studio serves D2C, SaaS and agency teams and offers decks and ongoing design support, which may suit a company that wants steady output more than a single rebrand.

What to look for in a Mumbai design agency

Start with the size of the team. Many Mumbai studios are small and bring in freelancers for bigger projects, which can give you close contact with the founder. For a national rollout across many product lines, ask who will do the production artwork and how many people will be on the account.

Check that the studio has done your kind of physical work. Packaging, a trade stand and a wayfinding system each involve printers, fabricators and site constraints, and few portfolios cover all three in equal depth. Ask to see a finished item or photographs of it installed, and ask who manages the vendors.

Languages deserve a direct question. Brands selling across India often need Devanagari and other scripts alongside English, and Studio Bigfat’s work for Subko shows how central that can be to an identity. If your packs or signs will run in several languages, ask for examples of multi-script type and who checks the final copy.

Finally, look at how the studio runs reviews. Packaging and identity projects pass through many rounds with founders, marketing teams and printers, and a wrong version sent to press is expensive. Agree on where the latest files live, who collects feedback and who gives final approval before work begins.

How Fabric helps design agency teams

Fabric gives a design studio one workspace for its files, client feedback and project knowledge. The agency setup is built around one space per client, with briefs, artwork, decks and call notes kept together.

Large design files sit in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams them on demand so they take no local disk space. Shared team folders hold the latest versions. Search works by meaning across documents, images and PDFs, and colour search finds visual assets by shade, which is useful when looking through old packaging or identity work. For early concepts, Canvas provides an infinite whiteboard for moodboards, and it can embed Figma files.

Client feedback runs through shared links. Share a file or folder with a client as a commenter, and they can respond without signing up. Annotations let them highlight and comment on PDFs, draw on an image and attach a comment to the drawing, or leave timestamped comments on video and audio, including a drawing on a video frame for motion work. The team can then mark each comment completed, so a round of packaging changes works like a checklist.

For delivery, any file or folder can be published as a web page, which suits finished brand guidelines or case studies. Published links are view-only, with optional download, and can have password protection.

On Team plans, self-writing docs can maintain a page for each client from meetings, Slack and the workspace, covering decisions, deliverables and open items.

Password protection is included on Pro and Team plans, and self-writing docs on Team plans. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best design agency in Mumbai?

There is no single answer, as the right studio depends on the brief. Studio Bigfat and Thought Over Design have strong food and consumer packaging portfolios, Bombay Duck Designs does a lot of illustration-led cultural work, and The Turtle Story combines packaging with exhibition and retail space design.

Which Mumbai design studios handle spatial work?

The Turtle Story designs exhibitions, booths and retail spaces. Mother Tongue Design works on wayfinding, and Bombay Duck Designs lists exhibits, installations, murals, environmental graphics and stage design. For large builds, ask who manages fabrication.

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

There is plenty of overlap. On this page, a design studio is a firm that makes a wide range of graphic, packaging, spatial and editorial work. Firms that lead with brand strategy and identity are on our list of branding agencies in Mumbai, and product design firms are on the UX design agencies page.

Why are Elephant Design and Codesign not on this list?

The list only includes studios with a working base we could confirm in the Mumbai region. Elephant Design’s contact page gives an address in Pune, and Codesign’s gives one in Gurgaon. Both may still take on Mumbai clients, so they are worth considering if location matters less for your project.

Do Mumbai design studios work with clients outside the city?

Many do. Abstrct Design says it has worked with clients in more than seven countries, and Mother Tongue Design has worked on Vahdam’s global spice line. If your team is in another city, ask how reviews are run and how often the studio expects to meet in person.

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