Agency Spotter Reveals the Top 100 Design Agencies Report


ATLANTA, September 2, 2020 – For its latest Top 100 Design Agencies Report, Agency Spotter ranked over 3,000 design agencies based on verified client reviews, credentials, focus areas, related expertise, and project work.

Insight on the Design Agencies:

  • 78% are B2B & B2C focused
  • 62% are mid-sized agencies
  • 35% have multiple locations
  • 27% are women-owned

These top design agencies work with some of the world’s established brands, including Adobe, AT&T, Bayer, Facebook, Deloitte, and SAP.

top 100 design agencies report

Cleveland Design placed first on the top design report. Cleveland Design is a team of seasoned graphic design and marketing professionals creating brand experiences that are smart, strategic, and effective. Based in Boston, this agency will take your brand to new levels of effectiveness with solutions that bring your brand promise to business partners and beyond. Their extensive external marketing expertise and our proven brand management capabilities enable Cleveland to create effective solutions for all your external communications needs.

“Cleveland Design read my mind and came back with what they knew I wanted. Just one option.”

– James H Stone, Trustee, Stone Family Charitable Foundation

Some of Cleveland Design’s clients include CompuMark, Harvard University, Honeywell, and Thomson Reuters.

Shikatani Lacroix Design SLD earned second place on the Top Design Agencies Report. Shikatani Lacroix Design SLD believes that the marketplace is going through significant transformation and these changes offer new opportunities for companies to move beyond brand engagement to full immersion in a brand experience. Whether it’s increasing traffic, generating sales, boosting monthly transactions, or shifting brand perceptions, everything they do is geared to owning a more immersive “at-purchase” moment. This firm provides strategy through to consumer packaging, digital experience, and merchandising with a strong focus on helping brands win at the moment of purchase. Some of SLD’s clients include KraftHeinz, Moosehead, PepsiCo Beverages, and Tata Beverages.

Top Design Agencies

Rank Agency Name

1. Cleveland Design
2. Shikatani Lacroix Design SLD
3. Motiv
4. Momentum Design Lab
5. Kworq
6. COHO Creative
7. Response Marketing
8. Propaganda
9. Ruckus
10. Hoffman York
11. Digital Silk
12. Sociallyin
13. Brass Ideas Advertising
14. Primer Grey
15. Skona
16. SOHO Media
17. Trajectory
18. Sir Isaac
19. DEKSIA
20. Taxi Studio
21. Black Bear Design
22. MonogramGroup
23. Magnani
24. Global Brand Works
25. Driven Creative Supply Co.
26. Simple Story
27. Vigor
28. Wanted for Nothing
29. ORCA
30. SmashBrand

Explore the full Top 100 Design Agencies Report. This top report includes verified client reviews, project work, and more. The top marketing agencies were selected based on Agency Spotter’s proprietary research methodology, which uses their websites’ extensive data along with qualitative and quantitative insights to evaluate many factors including each company’s qualifications, experience level, positioning, and client feedback. Agency Spotter’s top agency research reports are issued on a regular basis and are continuing to roll out across more than a dozen service areas. Interested companies are encouraged to claim their agency or apply to get listed and review the report methodology to be evaluated for future coverage.

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