Best Design Agencies in Stockholm (2026)

Introduction

Stockholm has one of Europe’s most concentrated design scenes for its size, and the nine studios below cover most of what a client might need: identities and packaging, books and exhibitions, retail interiors, furniture and product design. Several work for global brands from small, founder-led teams.

Much of the city’s design work sits close to its cultural institutions and its manufacturers. Moderna Museet, Fotografiska and Vasamuseet all appear on these studios’ client lists, while furniture and lighting brands such as Muuto, &Tradition and Vestre commission product work from studios across the city. Stockholm Design Week each February is when a lot of it gets shown; in 2025 Claesson Koivisto Rune used it to mark 20 years of work with Skultuna. Recognition in 2025 and 2026 includes an iF Design Award and a Seoul Living Design Award for Note Design Studio and a Utmärkt Svensk Form 2026 award for Form Us With Love.

Every studio here has an active Stockholm office in 2026. We focused on multidisciplinary design studios; strategy-led brand consultancies are covered on our branding agencies page. The list is unranked, since the right studio depends on the brief and on which discipline sits at the centre of it.

The best design agencies in Stockholm

1. Snask

Independent · SoFo, Södermalm · snask.com

Snask was started by Fredrik Öst and Magnus Berg after they graduated, and works from Skånegatan in SoFo. It covers brand strategy, visual identity, packaging, editorial work and film, and runs side projects including a record label and a book, Make Enemies & Gain Fans, now in its third edition. The founders spoke at OFFF Seville and Golden Drum in 2025 and have talks booked across Europe through 2026 and 2027.

Clients include Spotify, Klarna, Meta, Bang & Olufsen, H&M, ICA and the City of Stockholm. Recent work includes brand films for Meta and Curaprox, a rebrand of 5MAN brewery and music videos for The Hives and Viagra Boys. The tone is loud and playful, which suits some briefs far better than others.

2. Stockholm Design Lab

Independent · Vasastan · stockholmdesignlab.se

Björn Kusoffsky founded Stockholm Design Lab in 1998, and it has grown into one of the best-known Scandinavian design studios. Its team of art directors, strategists and designers works across identity, naming, packaging, retail environments, UX and brand film. A second monograph covering the studio’s work from 1998 to 2025 was published recently.

The client list is long and international: IKEA, Polestar, SAS, Volvo Cars, Ericsson, Moderna Museet, The Nobel Prize, Sigma and Haglöfs. Its projects tend to be large systems meant to run for years, so it is best suited to clients who want a long engagement.

3. Form Us With Love

Independent · Kungsholmen · formuswithlove.se

Form Us With Love is a product and furniture design studio on Norr Mälarstrand. It designs for manufacturers and also works on spaces, including its Testing Grounds bistro and meeting venue. Its Catena System received a Utmärkt Svensk Form award in 2026, and the studio took part in Clerkenwell Design Week in 2025.

Recent collaborations include the Dais collection with Keilhauer, Catena with Blond, Ottavo with Kristalia and an installation of Unfold Translucent at Muuto’s Milan apartment. It has also designed a public drinking fountain for Slussen in central Stockholm.

4. Note Design Studio

Independent · SoFo, Södermalm · notedesignstudio.se

Note has been based in Stockholm since 2008 and recently opened a second office in Copenhagen. Its team of around 16 covers architecture, interior architecture, furniture and product design, graphic design and art direction. Founding partners Johannes Karlström and Cristiano Pigazzini still lead it. The studio won an iF Design Award and a NYCxDESIGN Award in 2025, and a Seoul Living Design Award for Best Product in 2026.

Clients include &Tradition, Fritz Hansen, Herman Miller, Hermès, Klarna, Neko Health, Vestre, Vibia and Vasamuseet. A useful choice when a brief spans a product, the space it sits in and the graphics around it.

5. Bedow

Independent · Stockholm · bedow.se

Perniclas Bedow founded the studio in 2005, and it remains a small design and branding practice with a strong record in packaging. Its awards run from 2012 to 2026 and include D&AD, Cannes Lions, The One Show and the Type Directors Club. In 2026 Creative Boom listed it among 15 studios creatives are excited about, and Bedow sat on the D&AD New Blood Awards jury.

Work includes Neko Health, Coop, Candour wine, Swee Kombucha and the Polar Music Prize. The studio has a brand strategist on staff and links to a B Corp directory listing for Bedow Stockholm AB; in March 2026 it hosted a B Corp Month event on communicating sustainability.

6. Halleroed

Independent · Södermalm · halleroed.com

Christian and Ruxandra Halleröd run Halleroed from Gamla Lundagatan, designing luxury retail interiors and residential spaces worldwide. The practice also takes on galleries, restaurants, offices and trade-fair stands.

It is best known for its long collaboration with Acne Studios, whose stores it has designed in many cities. Other clients include Byredo, Toteme, Axel Arigato, Arket, Alaïa, Schiaparelli and USM. For a fashion or lifestyle brand opening physical stores, it is one of the most experienced studios in the city.

7. BankerWessel

Independent · Gamla stan · bankerwessel.com

BankerWessel is a graphic design studio working from the top floor of Ferkens gränd 1 in the old town. Its work spans visual identities, exhibition graphics, publications and digital media, and it leans heavily towards art, photography and architecture.

Projects include identities for Fotografiska New York and Berlin, The Collection for Moderna Museet, books on László Moholy-Nagy and Daido Moriyama, and the second edition of PROCESS: Visual Journeys in Graphic Design. A strong fit for museums, publishers and galleries.

8. Konst & Teknik

Independent · Södermalm · konst-teknik.se

Mattias Jakobsson and Peter Ström founded Konst & Teknik in 2006. The studio combines visual identities and design systems with printed matter, typefaces and its own web development, and Björn Berglund joined as partner and technical director in 2023. It works from Rutger Fuchsgatan in Stockholm and also lists Malmö.

Clients include Moderna Museet, Sveriges Television, Bonniers Konsthall, Vasamuseet, Arkitekturmuseet and Tensta Konsthall. Because design and build sit in the same team, it suits cultural clients who need a website and an identity delivered together.

9. Claesson Koivisto Rune

Independent · Södermalm · claessonkoivistorune.se

Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune set up Claesson Koivisto Rune as an architecture office in 1995, and it now works across architecture, interiors and product design. During Stockholm Design Week 2025 it showed work at two exhibitions: a 20-year retrospective with Skultuna and Aiiro at Jackson Design.

Architecture projects include Sony Music’s Stockholm headquarters, the Sfera Building in Kyoto and the Swedish Ambassador’s residence in Berlin. Its furniture and objects are made by Arflex, Asplund, Muuto, Offecct and Skandiform, among others.

What to look for in a Stockholm design agency

Start with the discipline at the centre of your brief. Stockholm studios are often multidisciplinary on paper, but most have a clear core: Halleroed in retail interiors, Form Us With Love in products, BankerWessel in books and exhibitions. Look at three or four recent projects that resemble yours rather than the full portfolio.

Size matters more here than in larger markets. Many of the city’s best-known studios are small, founder-led teams, and the founders usually lead the work themselves. That brings senior attention, though it can limit how many large projects a studio takes on at once, so ask about capacity and timelines early.

For product and furniture work, ask how the studio is paid. Furniture designers often work on royalty arrangements with manufacturers, which changes how a project is scoped. Identity and spatial work is usually priced by project or phase, and a clear statement of what each phase delivers avoids disagreement later.

Then look at how the studio shares work in progress. Design projects produce a lot of large files: renders, layout PDFs, photography, physical samples and prototypes photographed for review. A studio with an organised way of sharing these, collecting comments and tracking what has been approved will save both sides time across the rounds.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best design agency in Stockholm?

It depends on the discipline. For large identity systems, Stockholm Design Lab has worked with IKEA, Polestar and The Nobel Prize. For furniture and product design, Note Design Studio and Form Us With Love both won awards in 2025 and 2026. For retail interiors, Halleroed has designed Acne Studios stores around the world.

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

Design studios on this list make things: identities, books, exhibitions, interiors and products. Branding agencies usually start with strategy, positioning and naming, then build an identity from it. Many studios do both, but if strategy is the main need, see our list of branding agencies in Stockholm.

Which Stockholm studios design furniture and products?

Form Us With Love, Note Design Studio and Claesson Koivisto Rune all design for manufacturers. Their clients include Muuto, &Tradition, Fritz Hansen, Arflex, Offecct and Kristalia.

Which Stockholm design studios work with museums and cultural institutions?

BankerWessel, Konst & Teknik and Stockholm Design Lab have all worked for Moderna Museet. BankerWessel also designed identities for Fotografiska New York and Berlin, and Konst & Teknik’s clients include Vasamuseet, Bonniers Konsthall and Tensta Konsthall.

Do Stockholm design studios work in English?

Yes. Most of the studios here work for international clients and publish their sites in English. Note Design Studio also has an office in Copenhagen, and Snask’s founders speak at design conferences across Europe.

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