Anyone have any favorite agencies/designers-for-hire and links to examples of their work? I'm in early/initial phase of looking for a handful of creative and talented agencies for evaluation to work with on an upcoming consumer design project. There are hundreds of companies out there and I'm trying to narrow the field. Luckily most feature decent examples of their work online and are also responsible for their own sites - this let me rule out a number of disappointing examples already.

I'm not interested in whether you know someone at the company personally, I'm just looking for the people behind the designs you guys find most inspiring/creative/energetic/fresh/modern/timeless. So long as they're agencies and not in-house staff of a product company (like Apple for instance) Hehe.

Bruno