Top 15 Newsletters For Designers

Boost your design inspiration with our top 15 newsletter picks. Avoid inbox clutter with curated content on typography, UX/UI, and more.

As designers, we want to follow cool projects, see new developments, cheer on our peers, and find inspiration… but we don’t want a bunch of junk clogging up our inboxes. Signing up to a million newsletters that don’t provide any real information sucks.

That’s why we sifted through the newsletter slush pile to find 15 gems for designers. The newsletters we chose are a mixture of news, typography, UX/UI, and research. You’ll discover new designers, art, use cases, technology, and more. Take a look and dive into the better side of your email list.

ItsNiceThat

Typography, logos, rebrands, and portfolios, plus thousands of interviews with new and established designers. Whatever your graphic design needs are, you’ll find what you’re looking for in this up-to-date newsletter.

Desk of Tobias Van Schneider

Tobias is a multi-award-winning designer who has worked for various firms like Google, BMW, Red Bull, Spotify, and others. His weekly emails have a reputation for being both educational and inspiring. It includes design news, tips, and reading suggestions, among other things.

Inside Design

Be the most informed person on your team with the Inside Design Weekly Digest. Each issue is delivered with carefully curated articles on digital product design.

Logo Archives Logo Histories

Discover the internet's biggest collection of logo stories. Learn about the concepts, contexts, and considerations behind the best logo design and branding of the past. Run by Rich Baird, BP&O & LogoArchive.

Creative Bloom

Creative Boom celebrates, inspires, and supports the creative community. Launched in 2009, their newsletter explores the best in creativity and delivers news, inspiration, insight, and advice to help you succeed.

UX Collective

Ux Collective believes designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. They created the design publication they always wanted to read, and it comes with an awesome newsletter.

Typewolf

Typewolf offers commentary on the latest typefaces and showcases their use in the world. This newsletter will help you keep up-to-date with the latest type trends and resources.

Friends Of Type

Friends of Type features original typographic design and lettering – fresh visual content – practically every day. On the last week of every month, they feature a guest designer. This is a sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue.

I Love Typography

The world’s most popular typography blog. Holding articles on typography, type history, font creation, printmaking, calligraphy, and more. If you love type, you’ll love this newsletter.

Identity Designed

Launched in 2010, the site showcases design work from studios worldwide. There are hundreds of projects on these pages from designers in Mexico, Sweden, Vietnam, the USA, France, Australia, Brazil, and England… all over. Subscribe to their newsletter for detailed information on identity design.

Under Construction

Brand New® is a division of UnderConsideration, chronicling and providing opinions on corporate and brand identity work. They cover redesigns and new designs of notable products, companies, services, and organizations across all industries and locations.

Alphabettes

Alphabettes.org is a showcase for work, commentary, and research on lettering, typography, and type design. They work to support and promote the work of all women and nonbinary people in design. Currently (November 2023), Alphabettes has 300+ members from around the world in various areas and levels of activity.

Design Made In Japan

DMIJ (Design Made in Japan) is an attempt to map the design landscape in Japan with the help of designers, bloggers/writers, or otherwise design-interested individuals either living in Japan or abroad. It aims to become a central resource and platform for Japan design topics.

Httpster

Httpster is a showcase of damn fine website design, lovingly curated and categorized so we can perv on it at our whim. They love good typography and effective, unpretentious design; simple ideas are executed perfectly. Sign up for their newsletter to enjoy the latest curations.

The Inspiration Grid

Launched in February 2011, Inspiration Grid is an online magazine celebrating creative talent from around the world. Their newsletter offers a daily fix of design, art, illustration, typography, photography, architecture, fashion, and more.

There you have it – our top 15 newsletters for designers. You’ll feel recharged and massively inspired. Design matters, and there’s no better way to stay updated on the industry, new tools, people, events, and more than by supporting other designers through their articles, blogs, and newsletters.

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Chris Do

Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning director, designer, strategist, and educator. He's the Founder and CEO of The Futur—an online education platform that teaches the business of design to creative thinkers.

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