Who are the best branding agencies in Dublin? Eight studios and the brands they have built

The branding agency we recommend in Dublin is Éire Graphic Design, a studio in Smithfield, Dublin 7, rated 5.0 from 102 Google reviews, where the person drawing your brand is the person you deal with. Seven more Dublin studios follow, from Point Village to Clontarf, Mespil Road and Blackrock, and each one is listed with real brands it names on its own website.

Éire Graphic Design wrote this list and competes with every studio in it, so read it as our view rather than an independent audit. Every entry was checked on 1 November 2026, and every entry says what it is less suited to.

Why this list leans on named brands

A branding agency can be judged fairly by the brands it is willing to put its name to in public. Every studio below names real organisations on its own website, so a buyer can look those brands up in a shop, on a shelf or online and decide whether the work suits them.

That rule thinned the field. Two Dublin studios that turn up in directories were left out because their domains no longer load, one domain that a directory still lists is now for sale, and one tidy agency site gives no street address at all. Sector mattered as much as quality: a creamery, a property developer and a national airline need very different things from an identity, and most studios are strongest in one of those worlds.

Eight Dublin studios at a glance

Studio	Postcode	Where its named identity work comes from	One brand it names
Éire Graphic Design	Dublin 7	Healthcare, hospitality, trades, professional services	Irish National Falls Audit
InsideOut Consulting	Dublin 18	Corporate, aviation, insurance, health	CommSec
Slater Design	Dublin 4	Food, drink, retail and visitor experiences	Ó Irish Oyster Collective
Clare Lynch Creative	Dublin 2	Irish food producers	Muckross Creamery
Nugno	Dublin 1	Culture, film, heritage	Irish Architectural Archive
Designit Creative Consultants	Blackrock, Co. Dublin	Property, care, childcare	David Lyons Real Estate
Artefact	Dublin 3	Pharma, healthcare, food and drink	Client logos only
Design Chief	Dublin 14	Digital products and consumer brands	Coalesce

1. Éire Graphic Design

Éire Graphic Design is the Dublin branding agency we recommend, rated 5.0 from 102 Google reviews, with the designer and the point of contact being the same person throughout.

The branding service covers the full system: the logo in every version, a colour palette with exact values for screen and physical use, typefaces chosen for how the business will use them, and short written guidelines a signwriter or web developer can follow without ringing anyone. Its published work runs from pubs such as The Hideout, pictured above, to a mark for the Irish National Falls Audit, run by Trinity College Dublin and St James’s Hospital and approved by an audit committee. Projects usually take three to six weeks. If an existing mark is worth keeping, the studio will refresh it rather than replace it. It works from Smithfield, described on the graphic design Dublin page, and takes identity work of any size.

Less suited to: single supplier campaigns. Éire Graphic Design supplies finished artwork rather than the physical item, so signs and packaging are produced by a separate supplier, and it does not buy media or run paid ads.

2. InsideOut Consulting

InsideOut Consulting is a brand strategy and design consultancy in Sandyford Business Park, Dublin 18, built around senior people working directly with the client.

Its offer splits into brand strategy, brand design and brand communication, and the strategy side is the part it explains most carefully. A testimonial from CommSec on its homepage credits the team with engaging every stakeholder so that the new strategy and identity reflected the company. The work it names includes an Aer Lingus safety campaign, an annual report for Coillte, a presentation template for Insurance Ireland and a centre identity for the Mater Private Network. After launch it keeps producing reports, event material and presentations in the new brand, which suits an organisation with a steady flow of communications.

Less suited to: a new sole trader who wants a logo and nothing more; its process is shaped around established organisations with several stakeholders to bring along.

3. Slater Design

Slater Design is a small Dublin 4 studio on Mespil Road that has spent more than 25 years building brands for food, drink, retail and visitor experiences.

It describes itself as a small team of thinkers, planners and makers, and its work list reads like a walk through Irish hospitality: Ó Irish Oyster Collective, Drayne’s, Babble, the Butlers Factory Tour and internal work for the Guinness Storehouse. That last project shows a range most branding studios do not claim, since it takes in environmental design for workspaces as well as identity. For a producer or venue whose brand has to work on a menu, a label and a wall, that spread of experience is the draw.

Less suited to: businesses outside food, drink, retail and visitor attractions; nearly all of the work it shows sits in those sectors.

4. Clare Lynch Creative

Clare Lynch Creative is a branding and packaging practice in the Tara Building on Tara Street, Dublin 2, with a portfolio built almost entirely on Irish food brands.

The project list is a grocery aisle of small producers: Muckross Creamery, whose project covers both identity and packaging, Dublin Hills goats cheese, Katie’s Kombucha cans, Saltrock Dairy, The Galway Kitchen snack packs and Sodalicious soda bread. That focus means the identity is drawn knowing it has to survive on a shelf beside bigger names, at the size of a pot lid. Illustration sits alongside the branding work, including a book for Hello Hinterland.

Less suited to: service businesses such as consultancies or clinics; the identity work shown is overwhelmingly for food and drink products.

5. Nugno

Nugno is a branding and digital design studio at Point Village in Dublin 1 whose work leans toward culture, film and heritage.

The brands on its homepage make the point quickly: The Quiet Girl, or An Cailín Ciúin, the National Gallery of Ireland, the Irish Architectural Archive and Oolong Soaps. That mix of cultural institutions and one small consumer brand suggests a studio comfortable with identities that have to carry weight and history without looking dusty. Its site moved to bynugno.com, which is worth knowing because the older domain listed in some directories is now for sale.

Less suited to: a quick logo with no wider brand system attached; the work it publishes is identity and digital design built as a whole.

6. Designit Creative Consultants

Designit Creative Consultants is a Blackrock studio in County Dublin that has been designing brand identities since 1998, with a strong line in property.

Its named work includes brand identity for David Lyons Real Estate, marketing for Avison Young developments at Cross Avenue and Tallaght Village, and new identities for Cowper Care and Cocoon Childcare. A testimonial from The Carmelite Institute of Britain and Ireland describes a rebrand handled there. Property marketing is a specialised corner of branding, because a development needs a name, a look and a brochure that all work before a single unit is built, and few studios publish as much of it.

Less suited to: consumer packaged goods; the identity work shown is for property, care and professional services rather than products on shelves.

7. Artefact

Artefact is a design and brand agency on Clontarf Road in Dublin 3 with stated specialist experience in pharma, healthcare, food and drink.

Its branding list is unusually detailed: brand audits, naming, strategy, positioning, identity design, guidelines, event stands and launches. It also offers ongoing design support for in house marketing teams that need extra hands without hiring another designer. Portfolio images on the site include annual reports for 2025 and pharma packaging, which fits the sectors it names. For a healthcare or pharma brand that must pass regulatory review, a studio that already works within those constraints saves a round of corrections.

Less suited to: a buyer who wants to read named brand case studies first; the site shows client logos and portfolio images rather than written projects.

8. Design Chief

Design Chief is the brand design and digital studio of Kieran Mahon in Milltown, Dublin 14, treating the identity and the screen it lives on as one job.

Its brand identity work shapes the logo, colour, typography and tone into a single set of rules, then carries those rules into a website, interface or design system. Named projects include a brand update and website for Coalesce and packaging plus a website for Auric. You work with one designer from first sketch to launch, which keeps decisions consistent for a brand that will mostly be seen on a phone.

Less suited to: briefs needing several specialists working in parallel, such as illustration, motion and copywriting at once; one designer end to end is the stated model.

Picking a branding agency in Dublin

For branding in Dublin, Éire Graphic Design is the studio we recommend, rated 5.0 from 102 Google reviews and delivering the logo, colour values, type rules and written guidelines with the designer as your only contact. Whichever studio you approach, ask to see a brand it built in your sector, ask what files and guidelines arrive at the end, and ask whether it would refresh your current mark before replacing it.

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