Our expert analysts researched and ranked the top branding agencies in California that help businesses form a strong identity and foster customer loyalty. You can filter listings by team size, reviews, budget and city to find the right fit for your business needs.

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United States × California × Design × $10,000 - $25,000 ×Clear Filters
  • Wisdom in the Digital Age.

    Ripe Media is a Los Angeles digital agency founded in 2003, specializing in web design, WordPress development, branding, and eLearning for nonprofits, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and mission-driven brands...

    Top Services:

    • Web Design
    • eCommerce Development
    • WordPress Website Design
    • Web Development
    • Branding
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $90/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    8 Projects Listed
  • Design That Sells. Branding That Scales.

    Innovative Technologies Need Innovative Creative. Marc Posch + Partner is a branding and design agency in Los Angeles that works with founders and leaders in times of transition and growth. Together, we transform ideas into brands worth rallying around and energize sales...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Creative Services
    • Graphic Design
    • Package Design
    • Design Services
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $180/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    8 Projects Listed
  • We Specialize in Brand Strategy, Branding, UX/UI Design, and Web Development.

    Pill Creative Studio is a branding agency for startups and growing companies ready to build distinctive, enterprise-ready brands and websites. We partner with clients who value strategic thinking as much as exceptional execution...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Web Development
    • Web Design
    • WordPress Website Design
    • Logo Design
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $150/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    13 Projects Listed
  • Designing Digital Innovation, Delivering Impact

    Signature Creative is a Los Angeles based digital product and design agency founded in 2004. With a lean, senior-led team, they specialize in transforming brands through a combination of award-winning branding, UX/UI, creative technology, and full-stack development. The firm partners with Fortune 500s...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Graphic Design
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Creative Services
    • Design Services
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $200/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    12 Projects Listed
  • We Transform Brands Through Exceptional Experience Design & Strategy.

    Campground is a design studio that specializes in creating brands and experiences for bold companies. As a hands-on creative partner, we strengthen and invigorate brands through effective strategy and thoughtful design...

    Top Services:

    • UI/UX Design
    • Web Design
    • Branding
    • Product Design
    • Logo Design
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    Location
    Carlsbad, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $200/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    8 Projects Listed
  • We Believe The Only Strategy Is To Be Irreplaceable.

    RNR is a high-end web atelier built by passionate creatives and builders...

    Top Services:

    • Web Development
    • Logo Design
    • eCommerce Development
    • Graphic Design
    • SEO
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    Location
    San Diego, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $70/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    10 Projects Listed
  • Strategic Branding and Design That Ignites Growth

    We're a boutique agency for the entrepreneurs, the movers, the shakers, and the change-makers. Think of us as an extension of your company, your on-call creative team. We are the raw materials of your brand: designers, coders, writers, producers, and cultivators of the creative landscape. We've helped build...

    Top Services:

    • Web Design
    • Branding
    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design
    • Logo Design
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $200/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • UI/UX Design And Development Firm For Data-driven B2B SaaS Companies

    Making complex products simple, useful, and human...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Services
    • Branding
    • Product Design
    • Web Design
    • UI/UX Design
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $120/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    6 Projects Listed
  • Bold branding for organizations with something to say.

    Kilter is a full-service branding studio focused on amplifying and elevating organizations and companies with a positive social impact. Lead by a team of cross-sector experts with 40+ years of collective experience, we combine deep expertise in strategy, messaging, and design to create work that is beautiful...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $200/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • Empowering Digital Transformations

    CodeFulcrum is an agile and progressive software company. Specializing in web, mobile and enterprise software development. Delivering products that are both visually stunning and technically ambitious with an unparalleled level of expertise...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    • Software Development
    • BPO
    • Branding
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    Location
    South San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $25/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    2 Projects Listed
  • Intelligent Technologies, Smarter Business

    INTEGET is a technology led company offering digital solutions through its range of products and services to brands, businesses, start-ups , and platforms. INTEGET offers SaaS products, creative & digital design, application development and 3d modelling services through specialized team and structure across...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Services
    • Product Design
    • Creative Services
    • Branding
    • eCommerce Development
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    Location
    Irvine, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $65/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    2 Projects Listed
  • Designing For Humans And Agents

    skai.dev is a design and engineering studio building fast, minimal, AI-ready websites and systems. We work at the intersection of human interface and machine interpretation. Using Framer, shadcn/ui, structured data, and performance-first architecture, we create digital systems that are clear, scalable, and...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Web Design
    • AI Development
    • Web Development
    • SEO
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    Location
    Glendale, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $150/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • The Workhorse Behind Breakthrough Brands

    Most businesses waste time and money on scattered marketing and inconsistent messaging that fails to connect. Brandhorse helps growth-minded companies cut through the noise with clear strategy, cohesive storytelling, and creative execution that drives measurable results. We turn brand confusion into market...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Creative Services
    • Digital Marketing
    • UI/UX Design
    • Logo Design
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $150/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • Generative Design And Creative Communications

    New Fiction is a design-driven brand and product studio that merges timeless visual design with emerging technologies such as generative AI and procedural systems. The company positions itself at the intersection of identity, storytelling, and digital product creation, building scalable brands and experiences...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Creative Services
    • Web Development
    • AI Development
    • Market Research
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $150/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • Design Against Cognitive Friction

    Internauts is a Neurodigital design studio that helps organizations create brands and digital experiences built around how people actually think, feel, and make decisions. The studio combines branding, UX/UI design, accessibility, AI-aware experiences, and cognitive design principles to reduce friction and...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Logo Design
    • Product Design
    • Web Design
    • UI/UX Design
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $350/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • Creative Hearts. Engineered Identities.

    Atin is a strategic design and branding studio operating in London and Los Angeles. We engineer bespoke brand identities, custom logo systems, tactile packaging, and web experiences for venture-backed startups and scaling enterprises...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Logo Design
    • Package Design
    • Design Services
    • Creative Services
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $150/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • Senior Product Designers Embedded in Your Team — Design Systems, Staff Augmentation, and Zero-to-One

    Forge Studio places senior product designers (L4-L6 caliber) from Coinbase, Roblox, and Instacart directly into your team. Embedded design teams, enterprise design systems, and zero-to-one product design. $9.5M+ in engagements since 2017...

    Top Services:

    • UI/UX Design
    • Web Design
    • Product Design
    • Digital Strategy
    • AI Development
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $200/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
    Portfolios Count
    2 Projects Listed
  • Empowering Businesses Through AI- Driven Digital Transformation

    Brightter is a global AI-driven digital transformation company based in San Francisco. We have partnered with forward-thinking businesses for over a decade to create exceptional digital experiences. Our expertise spans AI transformation, brand strategy, website development, web applications, and search engine...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Services
    • Graphic Design
    • Branding
    • Digital Strategy
    • Web Design
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $120/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000
  • Digital Branding & Marketing

    Vanquish Media Group is a Digital Branding & Marketing collective specializing in creative collaboration with emerging brands and startups in Entertainment, Lifestyle, Tech and eCommerce industries...

    Top Services:

    • Web Development
    • Web Design
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Branding
    • WordPress Website Design
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $50/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $10,000 - $25,000

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