The best branding agencies in Los Angeles

Los Angeles brands are built for screens: games, streaming, studios and the apps people open between them. The agencies here know how an identity behaves in motion, on a trailer or inside a game launcher, and that sets them apart from studios elsewhere. These five have a studio in Los Angeles and identity work you can check.

See the 5 agencies Updated 2026

Quick list

#	Agency	Known for	Best for
1	Koto	Bright, crafted brands for tech and gaming	Platforms and game companies with big audiences
2	Siegel+Gale	Simplicity as a brand strategy	Organizations after a merger or a big change
3	How&How	Ideas-first identities for new technology	AI and tech startups with something hard to explain
4	Ferroconcrete	Personality-led brands with an entertainment eye	Retail, food and lifestyle brands
5	Los York	Identity, motion and production in one studio	Entertainment and media brands that live in motion

1. Koto

Website: koto.com
Location: Los Angeles (Culver City), with studios in London, New York, Berlin and Sydney
Guides: B2B & SaaS
Consumer & DTC
Employer Branding
Signature project: Call of Duty masterbrand for Activision (2023)

Koto’s Los Angeles studio sits in Culver City, close to the games and entertainment companies it works for. For Activision it built a masterbrand for Call of Duty, including a custom typeface, and for Riot Games it designed the identity of the League of Legends Championship Pacific. Its Glassdoor refresh turned two quotation marks into a monogram to signal honest talk about work.

Clients: Activision, Riot Games, Glassdoor
How they work: Brand strategy, visual and verbal identity, motion and digital design
Budget signal: Upper mid-market to enterprise
Skip if: You want a traditional, conservative look. Koto’s work is bright and expressive.

Last verified 2026

2. Siegel+Gale

Website: siegelgale.com
Location: Los Angeles office, with studios in New York, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai and Tokyo
Guides: Brand Architecture
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Professional Services
Signature project: SAG-AFTRA brand identity

When the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA merged into SAG-AFTRA, the new union needed one identity that both sets of members would accept. Siegel+Gale built it, and the national board approved it at a plenary in Los Angeles. The firm’s guiding idea is simplicity, which suits organizations coming out of a merger or rename. It also renamed and rebranded Valleywise Health and has worked for the Television Academy.

Clients: SAG-AFTRA, Valleywise Health, Television Academy
How they work: Brand strategy, naming, identity and customer experience
Budget signal: Enterprise
Skip if: You want an edgy, trend-led identity. Siegel+Gale designs for clarity first.

Last verified 2026

3. How&How

Website: how.studio
Location: Los Angeles (Venice), with a studio in London
Guides: AI Companies
B2B & SaaS
Launch Branding
Signature project: Ideogram rebrand

How&How’s Venice studio, a block from the boardwalk, gives the London agency a base for its US tech clients, and AI image platform Ideogram is a good example of that work. The rebrand had to make a generative AI tool feel creative and trustworthy, not generic, and came with AI-coded tools for producing brand assets. The studio also rebranded Everbloom and testing platform Sauce Labs, whose new S is built from code brackets. Its identities have won a long list of Brand New and Creative Review awards.

Clients: Ideogram, Everbloom, Sauce Labs
How they work: Brand strategy, verbal and visual identity, website design and development
Budget signal: Upper mid-market
Skip if: You need packaging or retail work. How&How focuses on brand and digital.

Last verified 2026

4. Ferroconcrete

Website: ferroconcrete.com
Location: Los Angeles (Downtown)
Guides: Hospitality, Food & Beverage
Consumer & DTC
Launch Branding
Signature project: Pinkberry brand identity

Yo Santosa earned three Emmy nominations for TV title sequences before building Ferroconcrete in Downtown Los Angeles, and the studio brings the same storytelling instinct to consumer brands: personality first, then a system to carry it. It built the Pinkberry brand from the ground up as the chain grew from one store to more than 200. Santosa also co-founded the fragrance brand Commodity, so the studio knows what happens after launch day.

Clients: Pinkberry, NBC’s Today Show, Freeform, Evite, The Music Center
How they work: Brand strategy, identity, packaging and campaigns
Budget signal: Mid-market
Skip if: You need complex B2B brand architecture. Ferroconcrete’s strength is consumer personality.

Last verified 2026

5. Los York

Website: losyork.tv
Location: Los Angeles, team works remotely
Guides: Visual Identity Design
Brand Experience & Environments
B2B & SaaS
Signature project: Eyeline Studios brand refresh

Los York sits between a design studio and a production company, with designers, writers, artists and directors working together since 2014. That mix shows in its brand refresh for Eyeline, Netflix’s visual effects partner, which covered strategy, a pixel-based mark, identity and a design system built to move on screen. The studio also makes campaigns and content for Motorola and built the Netflix Podcasts identity.

Clients: Eyeline, Motorola, Netflix, Amazon, Delta
How they work: Brand strategy, identity systems in static and motion, campaigns and production
Budget signal: Upper mid-market
Skip if: You only need a logo and guidelines. Los York’s value is in identity and production together.

Last verified 2026

Hiring a branding agency in Los Angeles

Ask to see the brand in motion.
In LA, many identities live in trailers, game launchers and streaming apps. Ask for motion examples, not just static boards.
Entertainment experience transfers.
Studios that work for games and media know how to design for big, fast-moving audiences, which also helps consumer tech and retail.
Check where the team sits.
Several agencies here also have London or New York studios. Confirm your project is run from Los Angeles if you want in-person sessions.