Originality and quality are the two guiding forces that define a good design team. Though the exact number of professional Indian design companies is far too many to count, this top 10 list of best design companies in India is an effort to bring out the truly creative players who have made a distinct name for themselves by introducing new rules of colour, style and symmetry.
Chillibreeze Graphic Services
India’s leading content and design services provider, Chillibreeze, is undoubtedly among the top 10 design companies India can be proud of. Their exclusive design division, 360flat, specializes in the use of Adobe InDesign CS for creating a range of visually appealing outputs such as newspapers, books, e-books, e-magazines, journals, product catalogs, technical manuals, brochures, newsletters and instructional design. Right from desktop publishing and typesetting to e-book design and high-end photo enriching, Chillibreeze has been communicating the world over through designs that speak a thousand tongues.
A Chillibreeze publication ebook created with Adobe InDesign and designed with Adobe Illustrator CS2 http://www.360flat.com/
Scientific Publishing Services (SPS)
Launched in 1995 to extend typesetting / pre-press services for scientific, technical and medical journal publishers, SPS is reckoned today as one of the oldest and best publishing and design companies in India. The end-to-end services provided by SPS include composition for print and electronic media, copy editing, illustration / graphic reproduction, XML editing and complex e-deliverables. Armed with exclusive know-how in content creation, authoring and instructional design, the company's fifth branch in Chennai is focusing entirely on e-publishing.
The visionary behind this top-notch design solutions provider is one of the winners of the Young Communications Entrpreneur (YCE) Award for 2010. By including an impressive service portfolio of 24 verticals in Print and Packaging Design, Environmental Graphics, City Branding, Corporate Transformation, Online Engagement & User Experience and Interactive Media, M P Hariharan, Director – ReZonant Design has been able to “provide real solutions to real problems, through design”.
There is no denying that this internationally recognized, multi-disciplinary Graphic Design Studio based in New Delhi is one of the top 10 design companies in India. Grafiosi is known for their bespoke design vocabulary that specifically caters to the unique needs of clients. The company’s bouquet of services revolves around graphic design, identity design, branding, stationery design, print design, environment / signage design, pro bono design, book cover / jacket design and poster design.
Among India’s leading design companies is Seventh Inc., a studio and consultancy firm that specializes in brand and graphic design. They call themselves experts in ‘visual management’, which is, simply put, the art of blending content and graphics in an appropriate, creative, and relevant manner to produce works of art that are beyond the normal standards of excellence. No doubt this company got listed by Forrester Research (2007 survey) as one of the top destinations for outsourced design work in the Asia Pacific region.
When it comes to high-quality illustrations and world-class design that reflect diverse styles, Bookworks is the name that comes to mind. This top-notch design company specializes in children’s book titles and book template designs with illustrations categorized under pre-school to kindergarten, semi-realistic, stylized and realistic. The company is a venture of LDI Graphics (P) Ltd., a Delhi-based design studio that offers a wide range of print design solutions.
Here is a design company that believes everything in this world could be design. After a decade of successful existence, one can say Grandmother has endeared itself to those who appreciate high-quality, visually-appealing design solutions. The company is known for its strict adherence to the internationally Indian design benchmark it has set for itself. Grandmother is also highly valued for the extremely unique designs that the team manage to come up with for every single client from any part of the world.
No top 10 list of best design companies is complete without giving due credit to those who specialize in Image and Photo editing. Prepress is a popular choice among international clients who outsource Photoshop, Illustrator and Publishing Services to talented manpower in India. For the past seven years the company has been offering clients in New York, California, UK, Florida, London and North America, a varied culture of Premedia, Prepress, Preflight, Print Artwork Production services that includes Photoshop services, Image Clipping Paths, Indesign & Quark Layouting, Photo Retouching / Restoration and Image Raster to Vector, among many others.
Here is someone who has mastered the art of all kinds of illustrations ranging from editorial and children's book illustrations to scientific, medical and technical ones. Pencil Sauce is a one of its kind, pure-play illustration and concept art studio in Bangalore that develops art for advertising, publishing, film and new media firms across the world. Photorealism is their most popular illustration style while the design teams’ medical illustration skills are fantastic.
Talk about an intelligent design boutique of repute in the heart of the country and you’ll soon come across Tinatoons – India’s innovative studio that specializes in blending various forms, styles and design mediums to create a unique and customized product for a whole range of communication platforms. Launched in 1994, this new age studio has been proving their mettle by creating visual communications for the print, electronic, web, events and alternatives.
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