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Award-winning studio designing culture through branding.
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A few openings remain for 2026. Now booking selected projects for 2027.

Design Dept is an independent branding and design studio in Los Angeles. We partner with founders, startups, and established companies to build brands with clarity, distinction, and staying power.

Our work spans:

• Brand strategy and positioning
• Naming and messaging
• Brand identity and visual systems
• Packaging design
• Direct-to-consumer launches
• Art direction and photography
• Digital brand experiences
• Campaigns and creative direction
• Ongoing brand stewardship

We work across health and wellness, beauty, fashion, hospitality, technology, consumer products, and culture.

If you’re looking for a Los Angeles branding agency, graphic design studio, packaging design agency, or creative partner for a new brand, rebrand, direct-to-consumer launch, product launch, or brand evolution, we’d love to hear what you’re building.

Design Dept.
Los Angeles

Unbound by Convention.

#Entrepreneur 
#StartupFounder 
#Branding 
#BrandDesign 
#DesignStudio taken in Los Angeles, California by @designdept.studio
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This is Los Angeles. Our way. Vol. 1 for the Design Dept creative community. Bookmark it for future travels. This is not a tourist list. It is an insider edit for creative people.

ARCHITECTURE
@eamesfoundation
@lacma
@lucasmuseum
@academymuseum
@waltdisneyconcerthall

ART
@ananas____ananas
@datalandmuseum
@davidzwirner
@gagosian
@moca
@hauserwirth
@hammer_museum
@jeffreydeitchgallery
@ladanceproject
@spruethmagers

SHOP
@arcanabooks
@arch___itecture
@baumkuchenstudio
@commonwave_hifi
@hightidestore_dtla
@jacquesmariemage
@leicagalleryla
@goodliverstore
@therow

CAFÉS
@cafenido.la
@cometoverdelphi
@thecommunitygoods
@damoteahousela
@cometoverdelphi
@lavetacoffee
@maruespressobar
@series.a.coffee
@stereoscopecoffee
@yalacoffeela

EAT MICHELIN
@camphorla
@holboxlosangeles
@katorestaurant
@nomacph
@meteora.la
@morihirosunset
@osteriamozza
@providencela
@somnirestaurant
@vespertine.la

EAT
@cucinaalba
@badmaashla
@damiandtla
@dunsmoor.la
@innout
@losbalconeshollywood
@luv2eat.thaibistro
@raffisplace
@sushitama_la
chateaumarmont
@gjelinahotel

STAY
@hoteljunemalibu
@noburyokanmalibu
@santamonicaproper
@publichotels
@silverlakepoolandinn
@sohohouse
@sunset_tower
@thehoxtonhotel

SIDE QUESTS
@cafetondo
@itshighlylikely
@nosmokingbar
@adigoodrich
@skydusterbeer

Design Dept® Studio Los Angeles
Designing culture through branding.

Design Dept is an award‑winning graphic design and branding studio based in Los Angeles. We help brands stand out through bold visual identity and strategic storytelling. #DesignDept #Branding #GraphicDesignLA #BrandingStudio #travel-guidetravelguide by @designdept.studio
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9 months ago
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L.A.’s heartbeat isn’t on the boulevard, it’s in the grind. This city makes you earn every inch, and that’s why it’s the best city in the world. 

Design Dept studio, Los Angeles.

📹 @saintpunkmusic
🔉 2Pac Makaveli “To Live & Die In L.A.”

Design Dept is an award‑winning graphic design and branding studio based in Los Angeles. We help brands stand out through bold visual identity and strategic storytelling. #DesignDept #Branding #GraphicDesignLA #BrandingStudio #LosAngeles #DesignDeptStudio #LA #ArtsDistrict #grind taken in Los Angeles, California by @designdept.studio
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For the packaging of AFEX, a supplement from @fatty15⁠, @designdept.studio⁠ looked to fine fragrance, with a walnut cap, glass bottle and moss-green box that opens in stages.⁠
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CREDITS⁠
Design: @designdept.studio⁠
Brand: @fatty15⁠
Typography: Maison Neue by @milieugrotesque⁠
Packaging Producer: Emma Lusher⁠
Illustration: @freebrianrea⁠
Photography: @spencerwwells and @caroline.desmet by @designdept.studio
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Who built the fatty15 brand world? We did.

Who built the fatty15 brand world? We did. Still life photography. 

Who built the fatty15 brand world? We did. Lifestyle photography. 

Who built the fatty15 brand world? We did. Sustainable packaging design. 

Who built the fatty15 brand world? We did. Brand illustrations. 

Who built the fatty15 brand world? We did. Brand collateral. 

Who built the fatty15 brand world? We did. Brand merch. 

Who built the fatty15 brand world? We did. Founder content. taken in Los Angeles, California by @designdept.studio
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2 months ago
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@designdept.studio designed the packaging for AFEX, a higher-dose version of the @fatty15 supplement for healthcare providers.⁠
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fatty15 is a supplement brand built on a fatty acid and positioned on healthy ageing at the cellular level, and AFEX had to be credible to a clinician. Rather than drawing on pharmaceutical packaging, the Los Angeles-based studio looked to fine fragrance. The bottle is recyclable glass under an oversized natural walnut cap – its label textured and reduced to the essentials. It is packed in a telescoping rigid box finished in a deep moss green. The lid lifts away and the front panel folds forward to reveal the bottle on a raised platform. Inside the box, a drawer holds refill pouches and educational materials.⁠
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Explore the full case study at our link in bio.⁠
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CREDITS⁠
Design: @designdept.studio⁠
Brand: @fatty15⁠
Typography: Maison Neue by @milieugrotesque⁠
Packaging Producer: Emma Lusher⁠
Illustration: @freebrianrea⁠
Photography: @spencerwwells and @caroline.desmet by @designdept.studio
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🎧 Cassette Player.

Morning movement. Fresh air. A cassette soundtrack. And a daily dose of fatty15.

The best wellness routines aren’t built on extremes. They’re built on small rituals repeated over time. A walk. A workout. A moment in the sun. One capsule. Then back to living.

Talent: Gwen Van Meir (Women Management LA)
Photography: Spencer Wells (ACL & Co.)
Creative Direction: Design Dept® Studio (Los Angeles)

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@spencerwwells 
@instagwen_
@sarahdbeauty
@lisa_ribar

Design Dept® Studio Los Angeles.
Designing culture through branding.

Design Dept is an award-winning graphic design and branding studio based in Los Angeles. We help brands stand out through bold visual identity and strategic storytelling.

#DesignDeptStudio
#Branding
#GraphicDesignLA
#BrandingStudio
#CultureBranding taken in Malibu, California by @designdept.studio
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Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier. Some buildings age. Some refuse to.

📍82 Rue de Villiers, 78300 Poissy, France

Completed in 1931 in Poissy, just outside Paris, Villa Savoye is one of the most influential examples of modernist architecture and the International Style.

Designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the house became a manifesto for a new way of living. Raised on pilotis, with horizontal ribbon windows, an open floor plan, a free façade and a rooftop garden, Villa Savoye brought Le Corbusier’s Five Points of Architecture to life.

At the time, it was radical. Nearly a century later, the unsettling part is how contemporary it still feels.

Walk through it, and you realize how much of what we now call modern architecture started here.

Villa Savoye, Poissy, France
Architects: Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret
Completed: 1931
Architecture: Modernism, International Style

@fondationlecorbusier
@pierre_jeanneret_studio

Save this architectural landmark for your next trip to Paris.

Design Dept Guides, Los Angeles.

Design Dept Guides explores architecture, design, art galleries, hotels, restaurants, coffee, and culture around the world. Curated travel guides and cultural discoveries for designers, architects, and creative minds.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier. taken in Paris, France by @designdept.studio
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2 months ago
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@designdeptstudio⁠ reimagines artificial botanicals as design objects.⁠
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CREDITS⁠
Design: @designdeptstudio⁠
Typography: GT Alpina by @grillitype and Zapf Humanist 601 by Hermann Zapf by @designdept.studio
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9 months ago
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Three playlists for three moods of the night.
Unwind. Rapture. Électrique.

Created for Bar Rêve, a cocktail bar in Brooklyn inspired by the optimism, style, and revelry of Belle Époque Paris. @bar.reve.nyc

Link in bio.

Design Dept® Studio Los Angeles.
Designing culture through branding.

Design Dept is an award-winning graphic design and branding studio based in Los Angeles. We help brands shape culture through visual identity, strategic storytelling, and curated experiences across design, sound, and atmosphere.

#BarReve #BelleEpoque #CocktailCulture #SpotifyPlaylist #brooklynnights taken in Bar Rêve by @designdept.studio
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Vibe check. taken in Los Angeles, California by @designdept.studio
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3 years ago
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Our work, in print.

Fauxliage @fauxliagefloral and Impact Build, two brand identities by Design Dept®, are featured in Patch, Logo Archive by Offcuts Press.

Published in the UK, Patch brings together 294 logos from graphic designers around the world in a limited-edition publication dedicated to contemporary identity design.

Design Dept®Los Angeles.

Design Dept is an award‑winning graphic design and branding studio based in Los Angeles. We help modern brands stand out through bold visual identity and strategic storytelling.

#DesignDept
#DesignDeptStudio
#CreativeDirection
#BrandingStudio
#LosAngeles taken in Los Angeles, California by @designdept.studio
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2 months ago
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