Best Design Agencies in Munich (2026)

Introduction

The 9 Munich design studios below run from founder-led industrial design offices to a 180-person group with seven offices. They were chosen for recent work, 2025 and 2026 recognition, and range across graphic, product, spatial and packaging design.

The city’s corporate base shapes much of the work. BMW, Siemens, Allianz and Audi (nearby in Ingolstadt) all buy design here, and the trade fair calendar keeps spatial studios busy. The Munich Creative Business Week, run by bayern design, held its 15th edition in May 2026 with more than 200 events, and returns from 10 to 16 May 2027. The city gave its 2026 Design Prize to Mirko Borsche of Bureau Borsche. Designaffairs, which Accenture agreed to buy in 2018, no longer has its own website: the old address redirects to Accenture Song.

Every studio here has a working Munich office or studio in 2026. The list is unranked, since the right choice depends on your brief, budget and the kind of design you need. Strategy-led identity specialists sit on our branding page, and digital product studios on our UX page.

The best design agencies in Munich

1. Bureau Borsche

Founder-led · Ludwigsvorstadt · bureauborsche.com

Bureau Borsche is a graphic and editorial studio founded by Mirko Borsche in 2007. In 2026 Borsche received the Designpreis der Landeshauptstadt München, a €10,000 award the city gives for a body of work every three years, and the jury cited the studio’s collective work alongside his own. In June 2026 the Berlin magazine and label 032c named him art director, with a redesign starting from its summer issue.

Clients span culture and fashion: the Bayerische Staatsoper, Haus der Kunst, ZEIT Magazin, Balenciaga, Birkenstock and Rimowa, plus the 2021 identity for Internazionale Milano. A 2023 interview put the team at ten designers plus an office manager, so capacity is worth raising early.

2. Peter Schmidt Group

Omnicom (BBDO Germany) · Altstadt · peter-schmidt-group.de

Peter Schmidt Group is a brand and packaging design agency founded in 1972, with 180 staff in 2025 across seven offices including Munich. It won ten awards at Red Dot: Brands & Communication Design 2026, its best result there, and reports second place in Horizont’s German CI/CD agency ranking.

Packaging is a large part of the practice. Recent work includes the return of the shower gel brand Cliff and Delta Cafés ranges, alongside identities for AUMOVIO, which took Gold and Best of Best at the German Brand Award 2026, and BARMER. Its new business contact sits in Frankfurt, so ask which work would be led from Munich.

3. Schmidhuber

Schmidhuber Brand Experience GmbH · Neuhausen · schmidhuber.de

Schmidhuber designs brand spaces: trade fair stands, retail, workplaces and hybrid formats, from its head office on Nederlinger Straße. It describes roughly 40 years of work and more than 330 awards, and holds ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification.

Audi is a repeat client, with “Feel Audi” at IAA Mobility 2025 and the Revolut F1 reveal. Other recent projects include Aumovio at IAA 2025, Vaillant at ISH 2025 and Palfinger at bauma 2025. The studio suits briefs where a brand has to work as a built space on a fixed fair date.

4. N+P Innovation Design

N+P Design Studios · Maxvorstadt · np-id.com

N+P is an industrial design consultancy with roots going back to 1970 and offices in Munich, Vienna and Atlanta. Its practice covers spatial work, products, branding, digital services and strategy, with a strong record in rail, medical and security equipment. The studio collected iF, Red Dot and German Design Award wins in 2024.

Transport is a large part of the portfolio: the FlixTrain high-speed fleet, Velvet high-speed trains in France and Hyundai Rotem light rail vehicles. It also worked with DMAA on wayfinding for THE LINE, and designed the BPS M evo for Giesecke+Devrient.

5. Diez Office

Founder-led · Munich · diezoffice.com

Diez Office is the product design practice Stefan Diez founded in 2002, working on furniture, lighting and architectural elements with a focus on the circular economy. The NUIO DUO for Kaldewei won a German Design Award and a Red Dot in 2026, and Kay for Roca took an Iconic Award in 2025.

Clients include Herman Miller, whose Fuld won a Red Dot Best of the Best in 2024, along with HAY, Wilkhahn, Thonet and Vibia. The main office is in Bassano del Grappa in Italy and the Munich studio lists a team of four, so check where your project would sit.

6. RELVĀOKELLERMANN

Independent · Munich · relvaokellermann.com

RELVĀOKELLERMANN is the industrial design office of Ana Relvão and Gerhardt Kellermann, working across furniture, electronics, accessories, spaces and systems. Its ohh seating family won an iF Design Award in 2026, the same year Kellermann sat on the iF jury. The pair also ran a studio masterclass for the 2026 Munich Creative Business Week.

Work includes the Dual Cook oven with Samsung’s design team, the Youn espresso machine and Siji grinder for Ligre, and a run of furniture for Gumpo, where they act as art directors. Bulthaup and COR are also on the client list. The two founders lead the office, which suits clients who want senior designers on the work.

7. KMS TEAM

Partner-led · Neuhausen · kms-team.com

KMS TEAM is a strategy and design consultancy of more than 80 people, with over 40 years behind it and offices in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf. Its ZEISS Brand Evolution project won the Grand Prix at the Internationaler Corporate Design Preis, and The Regular Brand, an AI brand tool built with Bakdata, won a MarTech Breakthrough Award in 2026.

The design range goes wider than identity. KMS designed the interior concept for Canyon’s E-Performance Center in Koblenz, runs its own KMS Type Foundry, and redesigned the standard Sparkasse card with S-Payment. Other clients include Audi, Miele and Porsche Motorsport.

8. Melville Brand Design

Owner-led · Ludwigsvorstadt · melvilledesign.de

Melville is a studio founded in 2008 that works across corporate design, typography, editorial, packaging, exhibition and trade fair design, with its own photography and video. It describes itself as owner-led with no account layers, under managing director Michael Schmidt and partners Florian Brugger and Johannes König.

A current project is the identity for Munich Arena, a planned venue for up to 20,000 people at the airport’s LabCampus, scheduled to open in 2029. That brief includes a custom variable typeface, plus continuing work on murals and premium club areas. Other clients include adidas, Canon, Marc O’Polo and the Neues Museum Nürnberg.

9. dube⁺ partner

Partnership · Sendling · dd-design.de

dube⁺ partner is a studio run by designers Dietrich Dube and Eduard Sommerfeld, trading under this name since 2019. It handles campaigns, corporate design, print and point-of-sale packaging, web design, illustration and film, including AI-assisted animation and CGI.

Appliance work includes TASSIMO print and point-of-sale material, Bosch Silent Mixx and Home Connect. Recent brand relaunches include Loyalty Partner Solutions (PAYBACK Group) and 27pilots (Deloitte). It says plainly that PR, performance marketing and media placement go to outside partners, so budget for those separately.

What to look for in a Munich design agency

Decide first how much range the job needs. Some studios here cover graphic, packaging and spatial work under one roof, which helps when a launch runs across all three. Industrial design offices such as RELVĀOKELLERMANN and Diez Office go deep in one discipline and tend to work with a client’s engineers over a long development cycle.

Check experience in your sector. Munich’s client base leans towards automotive, insurance, B2B technology and premium consumer goods, and studios build habits around those buyers. A team used to rail certification or medical devices will approach a project differently from one trained on fashion campaigns, and the portfolio will usually show which is which.

For spatial work, start with the date. Trade fairs such as bauma and IAA Mobility fix the deadline long in advance, so raise capacity early. Ask who handles construction, who is on site during set-up, and how materials are reused. Schmidhuber, for one, holds ISO 14001 certification and is a DGNB member.

Then ask how the studio runs reviews. Design work moves through many rounds across print proofs, renders, prototypes and film, often with a marketing team, an engineering team and a works council or legal department all commenting. A studio that keeps the latest version and every comment in one place will lose less time, and it is reasonable to ask to see that process before you sign.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best design agency in Munich?

There is no single answer, as it depends on the discipline. On 2026 recognition, Bureau Borsche’s founder received the city’s own Design Prize, Peter Schmidt Group won ten Red Dot awards, and Diez Office won a German Design Award and a Red Dot for its work with Kaldewei.

What happened to Designaffairs?

Accenture agreed to buy Designaffairs in 2018, and the old website now redirects to Accenture Song. An iF Design listing still shows a Munich address, but a separate working studio under that name could not be confirmed for 2026, so it is left off this list.

Which Munich studios do product and industrial design?

N+P Innovation Design works largely on transport, medical and security equipment. Diez Office focuses on furniture, lighting and circular design, and RELVĀOKELLERMANN covers furniture and consumer electronics. All three took recognised design awards in the last three years.

Which Munich studios handle trade fair and exhibition design?

Schmidhuber is the specialist on this list, with recent stands for Audi, Aumovio and Vaillant. Melville Brand Design offers exhibition and trade fair design as part of a wider practice, and KMS TEAM has designed brand interiors.

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

There is a lot of overlap. A design agency in this list makes things across several media: print, packaging, products and spaces. A branding agency starts from positioning, naming and identity, and many Munich firms do both. If the brief is mainly strategy, see our list of branding agencies in Munich.

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