Best Design Agencies in Barcelona (2026)

Introduction

Barcelona has one of Europe’s densest clusters of independent design studios, and the 11 below are among the most consistent. They cover identity, editorial, packaging, type, signage and digital work, and most of them work for cultural institutions and international brands at the same time.

The city’s design scene still revolves around the ADG Laus awards, run by ADG-FAD in Barcelona. The 56th edition was held on 11 June 2026, with 37 Gold Laus handed out across the categories, and Mucho’s Marga Oller sat on the jury. Several studios on this list took Laus awards in 2025 and 2026, and their client lists run from MACBA, CCCB and the Fundació Joan Miró to Nike, Visa, Zara and UEFA.

Every studio here has an active studio in Barcelona in 2026. We left pure brand-strategy consultancies and product or UX shops to their own lists. The order is not a ranking, since the right studio depends on the brief, the budget and how closely you want to work with the people doing the design.

The best design agencies in Barcelona

1. Mucho

Independent · Eixample · wearemucho.com

Mucho was founded in Barcelona in the early 2000s by Marc Català and Pablo Juncadella, and opened a San Francisco office in 2013. The Barcelona studio on Carrer Rosselló is the larger base, and the team counts more than 35 designers and strategists. Its studio site says Mucho has worked on more than 250 brands.

Recent work includes a global rebrand for Visa, identity work for FC Barcelona and MACBA, the Puig Women’s America’s Cup and projects for José Andrés Group. In 2026 CD PROJEKT RED revealed a refreshed logo, co-created with Mucho, at gamescom.

2. Hey

Independent · Barcelona · heystudio.es

Hey is a Barcelona studio founded in 2007, known for bright, geometric visual languages built on colour and simple forms. Creative Boom ranked it fourth in its list of the most admired creative studios of 2026, and the studio says it was selected in 2026 for the future euro banknotes, citing a European Central Bank press release.

Verònica Fuerte, who leads the studio, is a member of AGI, and Hey holds a seat on the Art Directors Club board. It also runs a podcast, Women at Work, and a shop, and recently released a watch collection with Anicorn.

3. Toormix

Independent · Gràcia · toormix.com

Toormix has worked from Barcelona since 2000 and describes itself as an inconformist, curious design studio. Its range is wide: branding, websites, packaging, editorial and information design, plus spatial work such as signage, exhibitions and retail interiors.

Recent projects include Honko for the Hospital Vall d’Hebron, identity and packaging for Barrufet Seafood, the Undog brand and the 2026 campaign for Dansàneu, a music festival in the Pyrenees. It suits clients who need one studio to carry an identity from screen to physical space.

4. Folch

Part of Acid House Barcelona · Poblenou · folchstudio.com

Folch was founded by Albert Folch and calls itself a multidisciplinary communication agency, working on brands, concepts and communication. Its studio site now presents it as part of Acid House Barcelona. Folch has a long record at the Laus awards, with Gold Laus for Tiger Magazine and for book and film work in the 2010s.

Clients include MACBA, the Fundació Joan Miró, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Adidas, Zara, Puig, Marset, Damm and the major music labels. The studio runs its own type foundry, Fonts From Folch, and co-directs the Master Beyond Branding with Elisava in Barcelona and Madrid.

5. Querida

Independent · Eixample · querida.si

Querida is a creative consultancy working across design, art and communication, led by founders and creative directors Marc Sancho and Albert Estruch. It also runs a production house, 13 1 13 4, so editorial, photography and film can be made in-house alongside identity and websites.

Its client list leans towards fashion and music: Nike, Zara, Massimo Dutti, Paloma Wool, Rosalía, Bad Bunny, Solange and Capitol Records, alongside MACBA, CCCB and Santa&Cole. Work from 2025 and 2026 includes the Massimo Dutti website, Zara Join Life, Nike’s Runway ‘25 campaign and a new Capitol Records website.

6. Clase bcn

Independent · Gothic Quarter · clasebcn.com

Clase bcn works on design and creative direction from a studio on Carrer de la Portaferrissa, close to the Rambla. Its work spans branding, visual identity and communication, with a strong record in culture and furniture.

Recent projects include the brand redesign marking a century of the shoemaker Pedro García, exhibition campaigns for the Fundació Miró, campaigns for the Palau de la Música, lighting brand Vibia’s “Shaping Atmospheres” and the identity for the PoMo museum in Trondheim. It also works for Croatian furniture brand Prostoria and Basque manufacturer Enea.

7. Atipus

Independent · Poblenou · atipus.com

Atipus is run by co-founders Jordi Blanch (executive director) and Eduard Duch (creative director). It covers branding, websites, packaging, editorial, UX/UI, spatial design and campaigns. At the 2026 Laus it won a Silver and two Bronze, plus Inbook selections in five categories, after three Bronze in 2025.

Recent work includes the 2025/26 season campaign for Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, a campaign for the Generalitat’s network of visual arts centres and branding and space design for Casa Llimona. Other clients include Ajuntament de Barcelona, CCCB, Barcelona Activa, Aldi and Leds C4.

8. Lo Siento Studio

Independent · Gràcia · losiento.studio

Borja Martínez founded Lo Siento in the mid-2000s, and the studio has stayed small. Its approach is physical: identity work where graphic and industrial design meet, with artisan processes and objects as much as screens. The studio is a member of AGI.

Clients have included SEAT, Yurbban Hotels, ThinkFood Group, WIRED and Adidas, and recent work includes material for OFFF 2025. It suits food, drink and hospitality brands that want packaging and interiors with texture.

9. Forma & Co

Independent · Barcelona · forma.co

Forma & Co is a graphic design and illustration studio founded in 2012 by Joel Lozano and Dani Navarro, with Josep Duran joining in 2014. It keeps a small core team and brings in strategists, photographers and copywriters as projects need them. Icon design is a speciality, run as a separate division, Forma Icons.

The studio has made a city map for Ajuntament de Barcelona, exhibition and campaign work for CCCB and MACBA, icon sets for the University of Barcelona and work for Visa, Nike, Nespresso, Massimo Dutti and Primavera Sound.

10. Vasava

Independent · Eixample · vasava.es

Vasava is an independent studio founded in 1997 that presents itself as a branding and strategic design studio. In practice it covers a wide spread: graphic design, typography, editorial, packaging, motion graphics, CGI, illustration and interactive work.

Recent projects include work for the UEFA Women’s Champions League in 2026, a run of Spotify playlist identities in 2024 and 2025, the 2024 Atlético de Madrid rebrand and Adobe’s booth at OFFF 2024. It is a good fit for sport, music and entertainment briefs that need motion and 3D alongside identity.

11. TwoPoints.Net

Independent · Barcelona · twopoints.net

TwoPoints.Net is a design studio based in Barcelona and Hamburg, known for flexible visual identity systems, editorial design and type design. It wrote and curated On the Road to Variable, a book on flexible typography published by Viction:ary.

Its best-known recent project was the concept, images, animations and catalogue for Spain as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022, for the Spanish Ministry of Culture. It also designed Andscape, a 27-font bespoke typeface for ESPN, and an identity for DonutShopDesign.

What to look for in a Barcelona design studio

Look at the cultural work first. Most Barcelona studios build their reputation on posters, catalogues and identities for museums, theatres and festivals, and that portfolio shows how a team handles typography and systems under a tight budget. Ask how the same thinking has carried over to commercial clients.

Size matters more here than in some cities. Many of the strongest studios have fewer than ten people, which means the founder is often doing the design. That is an advantage for identity and editorial work, though large rollouts across dozens of markets may need a studio with more production capacity, or a clear plan for partners.

Check which disciplines are handled in-house. Some studios on this list do signage, retail and exhibition design themselves; others bring in architects, developers, photographers or a type designer. Neither is better, but you should know who is doing each part and how they will be credited and paid.

Finally, ask how files and feedback will move. A design project produces a lot of versions: logo studies, type tests, packaging mockups, print proofs and photography selects. A studio with one place for the latest files, and a clear way for clients to comment on specific drafts, saves days on each round of approvals.

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Heavy files such as layered artwork, packaging renders and print-ready PDFs sit in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams files on demand so they take no local disk space. When a designer needs references, similar search finds images close in composition, colour or subject, and you can also search images by colour. Moodboards and early routes can be laid out on a canvas that embeds Figma files and exports to SVG or PNG.

For review rounds, the studio shares the work with the client as a commenter. Through that shared link, without creating an account, the client can highlight and comment on PDFs and draw directly on images to mark the exact spot on a layout or label, then attach a comment to the drawing. The team marks each comment completed as it is addressed, so feedback works like a checklist. Final identity guidelines or a project archive can be published as a web page, which is view-only, with optional download.

On Team plans, Fabric can maintain a page for each client from meetings, Slack and the workspace, covering decisions, deliverables and open items. That helps when a brand project runs for months and several designers rotate on and off it.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best design agency in Barcelona?

There is no single answer, as it depends on the brief. On recent recognition, Hey ranked fourth in Creative Boom’s 2026 list of the most admired creative studios, Atipus won a Silver and two Bronze at the 2026 Laus, and Mucho’s 2026 work includes the refreshed CD PROJEKT RED logo.

What are the Laus awards?

The ADG Laus are Spain’s main graphic design and visual communication awards, organised in Barcelona by ADG-FAD. The 56th edition took place on 11 June 2026 and gave out 37 Gold Laus.

Which Barcelona design studios work internationally?

Mucho has an office in San Francisco as well as Barcelona, and TwoPoints.Net works from Barcelona and Hamburg. Clase bcn, Querida and Vasava all list recent projects for clients outside Spain, from a Norwegian museum to Capitol Records and UEFA.

How is a design studio different from a branding agency?

There is plenty of overlap. The studios here are led by design craft across print, packaging, editorial, type and space, while branding agencies tend to lead with strategy, naming and brand architecture. If you need positioning work first, see our list of branding agencies in Barcelona.

Do Barcelona design studios work in English?

Yes. Most of the studios on this list work for international clients and publish their case studies in English as well as Catalan and Spanish.

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