Best Design Agencies in Oslo (2026)

Introduction

Oslo has a compact but well-regarded design scene, and the 8 studios below cover graphic, editorial, packaging, spatial and digital design. They were chosen for recent work, results at Visuelt 2026 and the strength of their client lists.

Much of the city’s design work comes from small, studio-led practices, many of them a few streets apart in Grünerløkka. The 33rd Visuelt awards, run by Grafill and presented in May 2026, gave Best of Show to Bleed for its identity for the content platform Sanity, and Oslo studios such as ANTI, OlssønBarbieri and Bielke&Yang took gold in packaging, identity and type. The map also consolidated: Neue Design Studio and Heydays joined Kurppa Hosk from 1 January 2025, creating one of the largest brand and design agencies in Scandinavia.

Every studio here has an active Oslo office in 2026. Pure brand-strategy consultancies sit on our branding agencies page. The list runs in no fixed order of merit, since the right choice depends on your brief, budget and how you like to work.

The best design agencies in Oslo

1. Bleed

Independent, Norwegian-owned · Grünerløkka · bleed.com

Bleed is a multidisciplinary design studio based on Thorvald Meyers gate, with a second office in Vienna. Its identity for Sanity won Best of Show at Visuelt 2026, along with gold in the large identity category.

The studio covers strategy, naming, identity, UX and UI, motion, packaging, type and exhibition design. Recent clients include Morrow Batteries, TV2 Play, Sbanken, the National Museum, the Natural History Museum and Fjellinjen, which picked Bleed as its brand and design partner ahead of 13 other agencies.

2. Bielke&Yang

Independent · Grünerløkka · bielkeyang.com

Bielke&Yang is an identity and design studio with a strong typographic streak. Its Jewel Display typeface won gold for display type at Visuelt 2026.

Its work runs across identity, packaging, retail and signage, editorial design, spatial work and websites. Clients include VG and E24, the jeweller David-Andersen, the Sommerro hotel, Holzweiler, Røros Tweed and Maaemo Group. The studio has also refreshed the Deli de Luca convenience chain.

3. Tank

Independent, partner-owned · Sagene · tank.no

Tank is a graphic design studio with 27 years behind it and offices in Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø. Four new partners joined Tank Oslo recently, and its identity for the clothing brand DEKSA won silver at the Transform Awards in London.

The studio works on identities, websites, environmental design, exhibitions and books. Recent projects include identities for Oslo Science Hub and the Ministry of Energy (Energidepartementet), environmental design for Harpe, which received a Red Dot award, and the identity for the 2029 Alpine World Championships in Narvik. Clients on its roster include NRK, the University of Oslo, NTNU, Statsbygg and Vestre.

4. OlssønBarbieri

Independent · Sentrum · olssonbarbieri.com

OlssønBarbieri is a brand identity and packaging studio working from a neoclassical building in central Oslo, with a research-led, conceptual approach. It won two golds at Visuelt 2026: packaging for the aperitif Aperitivo Treblasé and the visual identity for Theaterbaren.

Most of its clients are food, drink, beauty and hospitality brands, in Norway and abroad. It suits briefs where packaging and print finish carry most of the brand.

5. ANTI

Independent · Grünerløkka · anti.as

ANTI (short for A New Type of Interference) is a creative studio on Sofienberggata that combines design with advertising, digital, podcast and TV production. It was the most decorated studio in graphic design at Visuelt 2026, with three golds.

Those golds covered the visual world for NRK’s drama series “Rekviem for Selina”, an LP and CD box set for Susumu Yokota made with Non-Format, and lettering for Swix. Other clients include DEFA, Ulvang and Byggmax. ANTI is a good fit when design and campaign work need to come from the same team.

6. Kurppa Hosk

Part of Eidra · Sentrum · kurppahosk.com

Kurppa Hosk is a Swedish brand and design agency that absorbed two Oslo studios, Neue Design Studio and Heydays, from 1 January 2025. The combined agency has more than 120 people across Stockholm, Oslo, New York and Chicago, and is part of the Eidra consultancy group. Its Oslo office is on Kongens gate.

The Oslo team worked on SAS’s new visual identity and the identity for Sparebanken Norge, whose logo was tested in about 1,000 variants. Neue’s earlier work includes the Norwegian passports, which won gold at The One Show, and Heydays brought clients such as NRK, Vestre and Google. Kurppa Hosk also runs its own type foundry, KH Type.

7. Snøhetta

Independent · Sentrum · snohetta.com

Snøhetta is the Oslo-founded architecture and design practice, working since 2004 from Skur 39, a former warehouse on the harbour at Akershusstranda. Its design disciplines cover product and interior work alongside architecture and landscape, and Gaute Tenold Aase and Snøhetta won Visuelt 2026 gold for environmental design with the exhibition “Kuratert i øyeblikket” at Oslo Negativ.

The practice is the obvious Oslo choice when a brief spans a building, its interiors and the objects and exhibitions inside it. Recent work includes the transformation of Laerdal Medical’s 75-year-old headquarters, and Snøhetta received a Falstaff Living Design Award in October 2026.

8. Bakken & Bæck

Independent · Grünerløkka · bakkenbaeck.com

Bakken & Bæck is a design and technology studio that has been working since 2011, with offices in Amsterdam, Bonn, London and Barcelona. Its Oslo studio is on Trondheimsveien.

The studio takes brand, web and product projects from strategy through design to code, so identity and digital build sit in one team. Clients include Sanity, IKEA, Stripe, Coinbase, Bloomberg, DuckDuckGo and Google DeepMind.

What to look for in an Oslo design agency

Start with the shape of the studio. Many Oslo practices are small enough that the partners still design. That brings senior attention, though a small studio may need to bring in developers or production partners for large digital or environmental projects. Studios such as Kurppa Hosk or Bakken & Bæck carry more of that in-house.

Look at the discipline behind the portfolio. Oslo studios tend to have clear strengths: type and identity at Bielke&Yang, packaging at OlssønBarbieri, exhibitions and spatial work at Snøhetta. Visuelt results are a useful guide, as Grafill’s juries judge by category and the winners list is public.

Ask about the team by name. Oslo’s design scene has seen founders move and studios merge over the last two years, including the Neue and Heydays move into Kurppa Hosk. The designers in the pitch should be the ones doing the work, and it is fair to ask that in writing.

Finally, look at how the studio handles files and feedback. Identity and packaging projects create a lot of versions: logo rounds, colour tests, print proofs and photographed mock-ups. A studio with one clear place for the latest files and a simple way for clients to comment on images and PDFs will lose less time to email threads.

How Fabric helps design agency teams

Fabric gives a design studio one workspace for its files, client feedback and reference material, with AI search across all of it. The agency setup suits the way Oslo studios work: one space per client, with briefs, sketches, artwork files and presentations kept together.

Heavy design files live in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams files on demand so they take no local disk space, and shared team folders always hold the latest version. Search works by meaning across documents, images and PDFs, and colour search finds visual assets by shade. Similar search surfaces related images by composition, colour and subject, which helps when someone needs every earlier sketch of a mark. For early-stage work, the canvas holds moodboards and embeds Figma files.

For client review, share a file or folder with the client as a commenter; shared links work without sign-up. With annotations, clients highlight and comment on PDFs and documents, draw on an image and attach a comment to the drawing, and leave timestamped comments on video, including a drawing on the frame for motion work. The studio marks each comment completed as it is dealt with, so a round of feedback works like a checklist. Comments thread through Fabric’s collaboration tools, with @mentions and roles.

Finished work can be published as a web page, which suits brand guidelines that need to stay current. Published pages are view-only, with optional download, and update when the source changes. Password protection keeps unreleased identities private.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best design agency in Oslo?

There is no single answer, as it depends on the brief. On 2026 recognition, Bleed won Best of Show at Visuelt for its Sanity identity, ANTI took three Visuelt golds, and OlssønBarbieri won two.

What happened to Neue Design Studio and Heydays?

Both Oslo studios merged into the Swedish agency Kurppa Hosk from 1 January 2025. They now work under the Kurppa Hosk name from its Oslo office on Kongens gate, as part of the Eidra group.

What is Visuelt?

Visuelt is Norway’s main award for visual communication, run by Grafill, the Norwegian organisation for visual communication. The 2026 edition, presented in May, was its 33rd, and the jury gave more than 40 gold awards.

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

The studios on this page cover a wide range of design work, from books and packaging to exhibitions and websites. Agencies that lead with brand strategy and positioning are covered on our list of branding agencies in Oslo.

Do Oslo design studios work in English?

Most do. Several studios here serve international clients, and Bleed, Kurppa Hosk and Bakken & Bæck run offices outside Norway, so English-language briefs and presentations are routine.

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