A compilation of the world’s most influential industrial design agencies as well as the leading agencies from Switzerland.
Ammunition Group
The company develops hardware, software and graphics identities for many companies including Adobe Systems, Polaroid Corporation and Square Inc. Ammunition Group has received numerous international design awards.
“We are a design studio dedicated to the marketing of products and services”
Ammunition is a studio dedicated to putting design talent at the center of imagining, creating, and operating new product and service ventures. Founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, California and Brooklyn, New York, the studio is led by partners Robert Brunner and Matt Rolandson. Ammunition places entrepreneurs in close contact with a forty-person team of designers with expertise in physical and digital product design, service design, brand identity, user experience, graphic design, and packaging. Winner of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Product Design, the studio has been named one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies in Design” five times.
Founder: Robert Brunner,
Foundation: 2007
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of employees: 50
https://ammunitiongroup.com/
Artop-Gruppe
Artop has more than 1,000 employees engaged in design, scientific research, engineering, manufacturing, marketing and branding, based on the industry’s total design innovation service. 31 subsidiaries and branches are located in 12 Chinese cities, providing service for more than 2000 top brands at home and abroad in various industries, including Philips, Whirlpool, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Sony, Boeing, BMW, Bentley, Huawei, ZTE, Haier, Hisense, etc.
http://www.artopcn.com/
BUSSE Design
Product design, interface design, construction & small series from a single source!
BUSSE Design + Engineering is one of the largest and most renowned European offices for product design and product development.
“We have been producing successful products, target group-oriented product design and user-optimized interface design for 60 years. To do this, we develop sophisticated constructions right through to prototypes and tool-capable 3D data sets.”
Founded in 1959 by Rido Busse
https://www.busse-design.com/
Capgemini Engineering
Capgemini Engineering brings together under one brand unique strengths across the Capgemini Group: Altran’s world-leading engineering and R&D services – acquired by Capgemini in 2020 – and Capgemini’s expertise in digital manufacturing. With broad industry knowledge and state-of-the-art technologies in the digital and software sectors, Capgemini Engineering supports the convergence of the physical and digital world.
https://capgemini-engineering.com/ch/de/
Designaffairs
designaffairs is a strategic design consulting agency in Munich with other design offices in Erlangen, Shanghai and Portland. Founded in 1997, the agency employs more than 100 people and has been part of Accenture Industry since August 1, 2018.
https://www.designaffairs.com/
Designworks
Designworks is the design innovation studio of BMW Group.
For 25 years, we have been stimulating our parent company, as well as a select group of companies with ambitious visions for the future.
We inspire and challenge the companies we work with to be at the forefront of their industries – in design, technology and innovation.
We are the architects of future – designing systems that impact and improve the world we live in.
Clients: Coca Cola, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, John Deere, HP, Microsoft, Sennheiser, Siemens, Singapore Airlines und viele mehr.
http://www.bmwgroupdesignworks.com/
Frog Design
frog is a global design and strategy firm. frog transforms businesses at scale by creating systems of brand, product, and service that deliver distinctly better experiences for consumers, customers, citizens, and employees.
frog’s work for global brands from Apple to Zeiss has touched hearts and moved markets for over five decades.
https://www.frogdesign.com/
fuseproject
Founded in 1999 by Yves Béhar, fuseproject is an award-winning industrial design, digital (UX/UI) design, and branding firm with offices in San Francisco and throughout Europe. The studio takes a long-term, strategic approach to developing and enhancing brands…we create brand-building innovations by developing conceptual narratives and messages that are communicated through a product’s experience. We are fostering change, and supporting the evolution of the brands we work with through positioning strategies implemented in industrial design, packaging, graphics, naming, UI and environmental design. Our clients benefit from this approach through our ability to provide a broader view of product design, digital design, and branding. Our breadth of service is both broad and deep, from an integrated branding program, incorporating marketing strategies and communication tactics, to digital experience, to product design.
“We have started developing physical products and remain a core force. We continue to invent categories with new and better product experiences.”
The company is based in San Francisco and New York City.
https://innovators-guide.ch/2019/05/fuseproject-weltweit-erstes-3d-gedrucktes-dorf-entsteht-in-lateinamerika/
https://fuseproject.com/
GK Design Group
The history of the GK Design Group dates back to 1953, when six former students of the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music founded the GK Group in Tokyo Japan.
In 2019, the GK Design Group is a global network with offices in Japan, the USA, Europe and China.
http://www.gk-design.co.jp/index_e.html
IDEO
IDEO is a global design company. “We create positive impact through design.” IDEO uses Human Centered Design and Design Thinking methods. IDEO was and is significantly involved in the development, application and dissemination of the “Design Thinking” method.
At IDEO we believe a more sustainable, equitable future is for all of us to design. And there is urgency to that collective effort, as today’s challenges are increasingly global and interconnected. For decades, we’ve helped individuals, leaders, and organizations navigate such complexity, designing the products, services, and experiences of the future.
Founded in 1991, 700 employees (2019), active at 9 locations worldwide.
https://www.ideo.com/
https://innovators-guide.ch/2016/02/ideo/
LUNAR Design
Designers, engineers and thinkers have been committed to creating ingenious products and experiences since 1984. BusinessWeek magazine lists LUNAR Design among the top 10 American product design companies.
In 2014, LUNAR received the Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award for 30 years of innovative product design.
In 2015, McKinsey & Company acquired LUNAR – a pioneering offering for business strategy and design integration.
LUNAR | SAN FRANCISCO-CHICAGO-SINGAPORE
http://www.lunar.com/
Momentum Desing Lab
Momentum is a Silicon Valley design studio headquartered in San Mateo, with offices in New York, London and Sydney. The company offers design thinking-based and technology-driven services in digital product innovation, customer experience management, and digital transformation. Its customers range from startups to Fortune 100 companies.
Established in 2002, Momentum Design Lab is a pioneer of UX, CX, and product design. Rated as the top UX agency globally on B2B research platform Clutch five years in a row, the company operates from four offices across the world: Silicon Valley, New York, London, and Sydney. The company’s industry expertise spans key areas such as financial services, healthcare, martech, media and entertainment, enterprise software and consumer products,
Webseite:
https://momentumdesignlab.com/
PDD Groupe
PDD is a design and innovation consultancy, creating physical and digital products and experiences that drive our client businesses and delight their customers and users. We have been winning awards and serving our long-standing clients since 1980. With studios in London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Boston, and working in 6 continents, our experienced managers and talented researchers, designers and engineers help companies in the Medical & Healthcare, Consumer and Industrial & Commercial sectors to grow their businesses through innovation. We ensure that product and experience solutions are successful by ensuring they are appealing to customers, are feasible and viable for clients to make and are responsible given regulation, society and the environment. Such success creates our future- and its this sustainable ‘win-all-round’ business model that excites us- we call it ‘Meaningful Innovation’.
PDD Studios are installed in London, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
https://www.pddinnovation.com/
RKS Design & Innovation
RKS has been on the cutting edge of design and innovation since our beginnings in 1980. We use our human-centered design-thinking methodology, Psycho-Aesthetics to build emotionally resonant and empathetic user experiences. We work with a diverse set of global clients and help them create iconic designs, user experiences, and innovations that win new markets and set industry standards. We also commit to select pro-bono work to help other communities succeed in their missions, which includes teaching and sharing our Human-Centered methodology to undergraduate and graduate students at universities around the country. We succeed by staying focused on how our designs and solutions increase the quality of life for users and improve business outcomes. Our team is highly collaborative, creative, open, and diverse. We work on all projects as a tight-knit team, drawing on each other’s strengths, capabilities, and good humor.
https://rksdesign.com/
Ziba Design
Ziba is a global innovation and design consultancy headquartered in Portland, Oregon. We are known for creating love between people and brands. For more than 35 years Ziba has created some of the most iconic products and industry disruptions including the USB flash drive, while also defining satellite radio for the mainstream, or redefining the retail banking industry. Ziba has developed products and services in both digital and physical environments for clients such as adidas, FedEx, REI, Reebok, Daimler and P&G, creating industry shifts, while mitigating the risk of innovation and delivering impactful solutions.
Swiss Design Agencies
milani design
milani design consulting | Strategy consulting, innovation, design agency
Co-creating future business. We help companies to develop innovation strategies and implement them effectively from the idea to the market launch.
We advise companies to become more competitive and to put the customer first in a creative way. We help to master the increasing complexity and to bring the right innovations to the market quickly.
Design Thinking, Human Centered Design and Innovation Fitness are our daily business.
nose design experience
Designwerft GmbH
We develop brands, communication and products to give our customers a competitive advantage.
Our solutions profile your company, your brand and your products.
FOND Design
FOND takes over the development of radical innovations for you. We have many years of experience in discovering prospective potential for a wide variety of industries and realizing Minimum Viable Products (MVP) from it. Our unique selling point is the fundamental understanding of the complexity of real innovation processes based on our extensive expertise in all areas of design and physical as well as virtual prototyping.
Grand Studio
Grand Studio is an international design consultancy specializing in apparel, graphics, and products surrounding Sport and Street Culture. With designers from a variety of backgrounds and with years of experience in the industry, we are able to provide a range of services that can be custom tailored to accommodate your specific needs.
Ingmar Haudenschild – Design Development
Industrial design creates added value. Are you in the process of developing a product? Do you have a big idea or just none at the moment? Arrange a non-binding conversation with me!
In an initial exchange of ideas, we will find out together whether I can support you profitably with my know-how as an industrial designer and advance your project. First, I listen to you carefully and then explain to you what services I can contribute to the success of the project. Let’s create value and relevance together with good design.
Ingmar Haudenschild, Agency for Industrial Design, Basel / Switzerland.
https://ingmar-haudenschild.ch/
Momentum Design
Momentum is a design office in Zurich. We design products and interfaces. Momentum was founded in 2001 by Sven Adolph and is managed by him.
SB Produktdesign
Product design of consumer and capital goods is our core competence. We combine curiosity and creativity with strategic thinking and knowledge of market and user requirements. On this basis, we conceive and design authentic, innovative products that assert themselves on the market and represent our customers in the best possible way. Supported by our broad network, we accompany our customers from the product idea to construction and implementation in series production.
SEDAX
Design, engineering, technology: Competence center for holistic product development from the idea to market maturity.
Sedax is committed to integral engineering and provides high-level engineering services for the mechanical, electrical and metal industries. The range of services begins with the idea and ends with series production. Always tailored to the specific task.
Tale Designstudio GmbH
We are Tale, a design studio based in Basel, Switzerland. Our core competencies are product design and industrial design / industrial design. We also develop brands and advise companies on design strategy. Our customers include Sennheiser, Loewe, Swisscom, Belux, Monolicht, Maxwell Biosystems and Talsee. We are particularly interested in projects for start-up companies with innovative products and technologies
This Weber
We create and develop furniture-products for numerous companies in the international design industry.
Our goal is to give objects a recognizable value, which is perceived intuitively by the user.
Tribecraft AG
We develop products, strategies and services. We show our clients where the path can lead and how they can best reach that destination. We know how to turn ideas into reality by using our skill set. Innovation, Design, Engineering.
estragon
We believe in forward looking products and design being one of the most powerful tools to get attention and connect to a worldwide audience. To reach this ambitious goal we share our passion for design and generate a joint innovation culture.
Listening and observing are the basis for creative, commercially successful and sustainable solutions.
BMCO Product Design
We are BMCO. We design products. Rationally Swiss when it comes to functionality. Aesthetically intriguing for a global audience.