The Top 100 Pinterest Accounts to Follow for Design Inspiration

When it comes to finding inspiration for design projects, the glorious web offers an insatiable amount of content at our fingertips – so much so, that it can often feel overwhelming. We might spot something, get distracted and forget about it, cursing ourselves for not bookmarking that page. This is where Pinterest has become our best friend.

The platform allows us to find, curate, save and share inspiring bits and bobs that we discover on our virtual travels. And with the ability to create ‘boards’ that we can pin things to, this helps avoid any creative ruts in future. Even better, we can stalk those we admire and see what they’re inspired by – it’s the ultimate treasure trove of creativity.

But the problem is, who to follow? Allow us to help. At Shillington, we’ve pulled together the following list of 100 top Pinterest accounts for graphic design inspiration. With our suggestions, you’ll enrich your own boards in no time.

Design Magazines & Bloggers

1. Mr Cup & Walter

Mr Cup & Walter, aka Fabien Barral, is a graphic designer, passionate about images and graphic design.
Followers: 55.4K

2. Refinery29

Refinery29 is a “lifestyle destination that delivers non-stop inspiration to live a more stylish and creative life”.
Followers: 605.7K

3. Co.Design

The New York magazine where “business and design collide”.
Followers: 27.4K

4. We and The Color

Based in Germany, We and The Colour is a bright and vibrant art and design blog, sharing a wealth of creative inspiration.
Followers: 37K

5. Kinfolk Magazine

One of the best lifestyle magazines around with a Pinterest board dripping with style.
Followers: 94.9K

6. Cereal

A travel and style magazine.
Followers: 137.8K

7. NiceFuckingGraphics!

A Mexico-based art and design blog.
Followers: 6.6K

8. Beth Kirby | Local Milk

The Pinterest board of Beth Kirby, Chattanooga-based owner of Local Milk, a blog about slow living.
Followers: 304K

9. Lauren Zwanziger

Nashville native Lauren Zwanziger captures her life of travel and fashion via Pinterest.
Followers: 4.4M

10. Creative Boom

One of the UK’s leading art and design blogs for creative people.
Followers: 4.4K

11. It’s Nice That

Another leading blog based in London, with an emphasis on graphic design.
Followers: 5.6K

12. Creative Review

A United Kingdom magazine and website featuring the best in visual culture. They ask one big question – how is creativity changing our world?
Followers: 361.8K

13. From Up North

Curating the creative web since 2010. By Swedish-based designer Daniel Nelson.
Followers: 206.6K

14. AnOther

London-based magazine, offering a modern guide to fashion, culture and ideas.
Followers: 296.7K

15. Design Milk

Design Milk is a website dedicated to modern design run by Jaime Derringer. This is the official Design Milk + Dog Milk Pinterest account.
Followers: 417.8K

16. Graffica

Daily information on graphic design, image and communication from Graffica, a Spanish blog.
Followers: 4.3K

17. Design Quixotic

Follow the feed of Brooklyn-based Art Director + Designer. Lover of beautiful miscellany.
Followers: 1.9M

18. Awwwards

The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the Internet, which recognise and promote the best web designers in the world.
Followers: 44K

Design Studios

19. Estudio Pum

Pum is a multidisciplinary design studio based in São Paulo.
Followers: 2.5K

20. Hey Studio

Hey – the popular graphic design studio based in Barcelona.
Followers: 1.3K

21. Mucho

Mucho is a global boutique design studio. This is some of the stuff that inspires them.
Followers: 1.8K

22. Donhkoland

Donhkoland is run by Argentinean designer Nicolas Castillo and presents “global projects oriented to the new interactive market where the usability and vitality that new technologies provide are the key component”.
Followers: 55.9K

23. Pentagram Design

Pentagram is a multi-disciplinary design firm with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Austin and Berlin.
Followers: 16.8K

24. Craig Leontowicz

Founder of 10C, a Canadian graphic design studio.
Followers: 38.7K

25. Inkwell Studio

An New Zealand-based independent design studio specialising in branding, custom typography and print design. Small studio with massive ideas.
Followers: 78.4K

26. Smack Bang Designs

A boutique branding and design agency based in Sydney. Working closely with businesses all over the globe to create distinctive and damn-fine design solutions.
Followers: 5,482

27. Vice Versa Design Studio

Vice Versa is the first infographics design studio in South Korea.
Followers: 8.2K

28. UnderConsideration

A graphic design firm based in Austin, Texas. UnderConsideration generates its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit.
Followers: 52.8K

29. Sixheads John Fry

Sixheads is a graphic design and web development studio based in Melbourne, Australia. Its founder John Fry is also Director of Digital for Shillington.
Followers: 244

Designers & Artists

30. Jessica Walsh

Partner at Sagmeister & Walsh in NYC.
Followers: 30.7K

31. Anna Dunn

London designer and illustrator, and a lecturer at Shillington London.
Followers: 18.4K

32. Richard Baird

A British freelance designer and writer working within the field of brand identity design. Articles published by Brand New, Design Week, The Dieline and BP&O.
Followers: 123K

33. Tobias Applegren

Tobias Applegren is a Norwegian creative strategist. He believes “a good brand doesn’t need to be complicated, it just needs to be right.”
Followers: 15K

34. Emma Linnea Davis

Artist, calligrapher, illustrator and lover of all things creative, typographical and calligraphic – and a Shillington Sydney graduate.
Followers: 137K

35. Brandon Lesley

Creative director, designer, photographer, music nerd and documenter of fine design. Based in Denton, Texas.
Followers: 630K

36. Mervi / Werkshoppe

Finnish freelance creative with a soft spot for anything that’s a little bit out of the ordinary, and ordinary that’s just plain awesome.
Followers: 13.6K

37. Suann Song

Founder and Creative Director at Appointed, Suann Song works out of Washington, D.C.
Followers: 691.2K

38. Tia Queen

Brisbane-based graphic designer with a love for pixels and paper, and a lecturer at Shillington’s Brisbane campus.
Followers: 2.8K

39. Georgia Perry

Melbourne designer and illustrator, creating chic and eccentric accessories. She’s also a guest lecturer at Shillington in Melbourne.
Followers: 615

40. Jess Wright

Designer based in Melbourne.
Followers: 87.5K

41. Eduardo Dosuá

Graphic and type designer based in Madrid. Focused on corporate identity, typography, art direction and editorial design.
Followers: 110.9K

42. De perdidos al río

Graphic designer living in Valencia.
Followers: 4.1K

43. Kan Wei

New York designer.
Followers: 14.3K

44. Shanti Sparrow

Shanti is an Australian illustrator and designer who loves things bright, beautiful & colourful. An inspiring feed from someone who is also a lecturer at Shillington New York.
Followers: 489

45. Annie Bastien

Annie Bastien is a Montreal-based graphic designer and teacher.
Followers: 114K

46. Amy Sia

Australian London-based fashion and textile print designer. Loves painting, colour, print and pattern.
Followers: 195.9K

47. Spenceroni

Melbourne-based graphic artist, illustrator and maker, and lecturer at Shillington.
Followers: 1.4K

48. Shuji Fukada

Japanese graphic designer.
Followers: 87.2K

49. Neil Ramsbottom

Manchester-based founder and designer at Studio eNaR and co-founder of Bitique. Fan of graphic design, architecture and the sweet science of boxing.
Followers: 9.1K

50. Miagrphx

Graphic designer from Portugal. Made of awesomeness. Daydreamer & night thinker. Full-time Geek. Interested in design, art, photo, body art, weird.
Followers: 179.8K

51. Massimo Pitis

Creative Director at Pitis in Milan: branding, exhibition, digital and editorial design.
Followers: 1.2K

52. Lee Nicol

Graphic designer at The Creative Method and former Shillington Sydney teacher.
Followers: 260

53. Chloe Douglas

Chloe Douglas is a Vancouver-based designer, art director and colour enthusiast.
Followers: 576K

54. Laurent Duserre

Art director and web designer based in France. Inspired by travelling to foreign countries, experiencing different cultures.
Followers: 144K

55. Rebecca Finn

Atlanta, Georgia-based graphic designer and creative soul with a love for design, art, couture and the desire to experience more out of life than what we see in the everyday.
Followers: 35.5K

56. Kayla Meyer

Denver-based creative director.
Followers: 17.5K

Photography

57. Unsplash

Montreal, Canada-based platform offering copyright-free high resolution stock photographs.
Followers: 8.5K

58. Pixabay Free Image

Over 800,000 high quality photos, vector graphics, and videos on Pixabay.com. All images are 100% free to use. Germany-based platform.
Followers: 8.5K

59. Thomas Murphy

Brooklyn-based photographer and blogger.
Followers: 1.1M

60. Bekka Palmer

Bekka is a photographer and adventurer living in Brooklyn.
Followers: 8.6M

61. Flickr

The famous image hosting platform brings you its inspiring Pinterest feed.
Followers: 79.7K

62. Pexels

Pexels is another non-cheesy stock photo site. Here you’ll find interesting and awesome pins around the topic of “web design”.
Followers: 7.2K

63. Freepik

At Freepik, you’ll find 1.4 million free graphic files for download.
Followers: 37.5K

Resources for Designers

64. Free Design Resources

Free Design Resources is an Indonesia-based site dedicated to help you find the highest quality free resources for your design.
Followers: 1.5K

65. Creative Market

Creative Market is a marketplace for design assets like graphics, photos, fonts, website themes, icons, brushes and more. Based out of San Francisco.
Followers: 173K

66. Graphic Design Junction

Get free daily graphic inspirational resources for designers and developers.
Followers: 84.3K

Design Organisations & Events

67. The Design Museum

One of the world’s leading museums, The Design Museum in London is devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, and architecture to industrial design.
Followers: 25.1K

68. The Finders Keepers

The Finders Keepers is Australia’s leading design market, featuring the work of independent makers from across the country.
Followers: 4.6K

69. SFMOMA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Followers: 31K

Typography

70. Wayne Thompson

Type designer, lettering practitioner, typography instructor. Director of Australian Type Foundry and a guest lecturer for Shillington in Australia.
Followers: 173

71. Luca Barcellona

Calligrapher and graphic designer based in Milan, Italy.
Followers: 1K

72. Seb Lester

Letterform Art, Design, Illustration. Seb Lester works in Lewes in East Sussex as an artist and designer.
Followers: 1.8K

73. Font Picker

Font Picker is a simple app to browse and choose fonts on your computer. Based out of Leeds, United Kingdom.
Followers: 3.3K

74. Type Worship

Counterpart to the Type Worship blog. Celebrating beautiful letterforms. Based out of London and Sydney.
Followers: 569

75. FontShop

Based in Berlin, FontShop is the premier retailer for desktop, web and mobile typefaces with over 150,000 fonts from expert-selected foundries.
Followers: 38.5K

Designs Products & Brands

76. Society6

Collect gallery quality art prints and other products by thousands of Society6 artists from around the world.
Followers: 188.9K

77. Pantone

The authority on colour, based in Carstadt, New Jersey.
Followers: 95.7K

78. Etsy

The marketplace where people connect to make, sell and buy unique goods.
Followers: 930.5K

79. Adobe

At Adobe, you can break down barriers to creation. Wherever you are when inspiration strikes… Home? Create. Office? Create. Subway? Create.
Followers: 54.9K

80. Poketo

Leading lifestyle brand and purveyor of design-driven wares. Flagship in Downtown LA’s Arts District and Outpost at The Line Hotel.
Followers: 17.5K

81. WeWork

WeWork provides you with the space, community, and services you need to make a life, not just a living.
Followers: 8.6K

82. Behance

Use Behance to showcase and discover creative work. “We’re on a mission to connect and empower the creative world to make ideas happen.”
Followers: 639K

83. Canva

Empowering the world to design. Start creating at Canva, based out of Sydney, Australia.
Followers: 60.8K

84. Guy Kawasaki

Silicon Valley, CA genius Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. Author, The Art of the Start 2.0.
Followers: 462.7K

85. The Dieline

Featuring the best package design from around the world.
Followers: 46.4K

Illustration, Colour & Pattern Inspiration

86. Ciara Phelan

Freelance illustrator and textile designer based in London. Founder of Kith & Kin.
Followers: 1.6K

87. Laura Redburn

Collage artist, pattern maker and colour lover based in Wales.
Followers: 3.6K

88. Jessica Colaluca

Founder of Design Seeds.
Followers: 746.9K

89. Design Seeds

For all who love colour, Design Seeds is a definite. Based in Madison, Wisconsin.
Followers: 63.5K

90. Sarah Bagshaw

Birmingham-based mother of three. Art and design lecturer. Surface pattern designer.
Followers: 48K

91. Peppy Pattern And Design

Surface Pattern Designer from London.
Followers: 7.3K

UX/UI Design

92. rolanGonzalez

Spanish front-end developer and UI/UX researcher.
Followers: 61.9K

93. wit studio

wit studio makes software for UI designers and developers.
Followers: 4.1K

94. Héctor García

Spanish-born UX designer, based in Shanghai, China.
Followers: 652

95. Nacho Ortega

Madrid-based UX/UI designer.
Followers: 38.5K

96. Stephane Sommer

Parisian design director who says: “Every system is a tool, those are the actions that define it”.
Followers: 25.9K

97. UX Setup

Resources for UX designers, based out of London.
Followers: 2.3K

98. Michał Galubiński

Based in Warszawa, Poland, Michal is a creative designer specialising in interface design, mobile application design and web-design.
Followers: 50K

99. widux

Spanish UX/UI designer with an interesting Pinterest feed.
Followers: 737

Last but not least

100. Shillington

One of the world’s leading graphic design schools. We share student work, inspirations, resources and everything design on our rich and varied Pinterest feed.
Followers: 3.3K