Top Design Substacks
Explore the world of design with Substack newsletters that cover everything from graphic design and architecture to user experience and creative innovation.
Top Design Substacks
Explore the world of design with Substack newsletters that cover everything from graphic design and architecture to user experience and creative innovation.
#1 Homeward
A top-to-bottom renovation, design finds, and hard life questions—the nitty gritty of creating our home in Ojai, CA. Plus, input from experts and all of you! A researched, opinionated resource from Amanda Hesser of Food52, Schoolhouse, and Dansk.
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#2 The Art of Noticing
Ideas, inspiration, and provocations for creativity, work, and staying human. From author Rob Walker.
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#3 Design Better
Get smarter about the craft and career path of design. Connect with talented designers in the Design Better community.
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#4 AI First Designer
Unlock new powerful AI Design tactics & career advice from successful designers — delivered to you, every week.
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#5 Design School
A weekly design dispatch of inspirations, ideas, and recommendations—straight from the desk of the former Schoolhouse Head of Design Katie Elliott.
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#6 UX Collective
We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. So we created the design publication we have always wanted to read.
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#7 CGP Grey
Creating video explainers and podcasts.
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#8 Construction Physics
Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.
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#9 Home School
Learn how to make your home feel more like you. Not an inspo photo. Not a micro trend. You!
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#10 ART DIRECTION
Art direction essays, frameworks, and visual research by Zoë Yasemin — covering image-making, brand strategy, fashion, and visual culture for art directors, photographers, and creative directors.
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#11 UX Movement Newsletter
Become a master at user experience design
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#12 Design + AI
The go-to resource for building products in the age of AI.
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#13 WEARSTLERWORLD
A Wednesday newsletter about design, fashion, travel, influences, rationales, and limitlessness. By KELLY WEARSTLER AD100 Hall of Fame, Elle Decor A-List, Wallpaper’s Top 20 Designers, Time Magazine’s The Design 100.
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#14 Hilah's Things
I'm Hilah, the CEO and founder of Spoak. This is a newsletter full of my favorite things, my musings on life and work and design, and the lessons I've learned as an entrepreneur. I hope it brings a bit of joy to your inbox.
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#15 Feeling! Magazine
A magazine exploring the intersection of design and feeling.
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#16 Design with AI
Practical articles every week to help you design better, faster, and smarter with AI.
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#17 flarup.email
A personal newsletter by designer Michael Flarup about the joy of creating things. Stories from his journey in design, games, and life—along with early access to his projects, creative insights, and curated links to things that inspire him.
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#18 À La Carte
À La Carte is a newsletter by creative director Ali LaBelle that explores creativity, curiosity, and inspiration.
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#19 La French | Newsletters
Média d'actualités en ligne destiné à + de 30.000 architectes au quotidien. News | Jobs | Masterclass.
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#20 Artifact
A design publication about craft.
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#21 The Aesthete
Beautiful art, objects and spaces meticulously curated and delivered fresh to your inbox. Subscribe, and your Tuesdays will never be the same again.
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#22 nolandanielwhite
A newsletter for design minded folk seeking out the best in fashion, watches, interior design, and more!
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#23 Brand Archive – Brand & rebrand launches as they happen
The very latest brand and rebrand launches, as they happen. Stay in the loop!
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#24 Design Buddies Newsletter
Welcome to our newsletter! Here, we share advice, resources, and events to help you level up your design career. Subscribe and join us on Discord for more - https://discord.gg/designbuddies
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#25 Mad About The House by Kate Watson-Smyth
A newsletter of ideas and inspiration for people who love houses
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#26 Explain Ideas Visually
Learn to say more with less. Tips, tricks, expert interviews — every Saturday morning.
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#27 Logo Histories
Access extensive historical logo design research. Discover concepts and contexts. Improve your understanding and craft.
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#28 SFGirlByBay
uniquely eclectic interior styling inspiration curated with an eye for vintage-modern design with a snapshot of travel, lifestyle and fashion, too. we’re all about unique, personal style here. welcome.
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#29 Home Front
Curated by the editors of Domino and the coolest people they know, Home Front is a twice-weekly interior design newsletter packed with insider intel, decor inspiration, and shopping discoveries we don’t share anywhere else.
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#30 Typeverything Fonts
Font news
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#31 Love, Shea
Life behind the portfolio: Notes on design, style, and the beauty in between.
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#32 House Call With Kate Arends
House Call is for interior design enthusiasts tackling the process of creating a home. In this weekly newsletter, I explore why our homes—and the lives we lead inside their walls—matter. Join for resources and inspiration. Stay for community and support.
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#33 The Design System Guide
Get weekly insights, tools, and templates to help you build and scale design systems.
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#34 MOPHO News
Elevate your visual prowess with our newsletter, covering photography, videography, design, and the latest creative tools and techniques. Stay updated on the newest developments and expert insights in the world of imagery and video creation.
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#35 Artiom Dashinsky
Product Designer, Author
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#36 Editions by Natalie Walton
A space for design, creativity and ideas. Tomorrow starts today.
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#37 Elevated Spaces
Design. Tinkering. Skill building with friends. Creating a community. This is where I share those processes and projects and how they intersect with personal and communal growth.
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#38 Front & Back – Event Production Insights
Front & Back delivers real-world tactics for producers, creatives, and agency teams who make complex events happen. No hype, no fluff – just hard-earned lessons, smart workflows, and honest breakdowns from behind the scenes.
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#39 Tremont Home
Round ups of links to the best vintage and one-of-a-kind home goods on the internet, plus behind-the-scenes details about home, content creation, and my real life. Impassioned recommendations always.
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#40 A Considered Space
Obsessively curated edits and recommendations for design lovers, plus unfiltered writing about life and home. Come on in!
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#41 Spaces and Places
A designer’s guide to interiors and spaces worth seeing. For lovers of craftsmanship, thoughtful design, and beautiful places.
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#42 The Experience Designer's Almanac
How to design brand experiences people actually remember and seek out. Practical frameworks for experiential retail, storyliving, and emotional design that drives loyalty - not just Instagram posts. For strategists and designers who build real things.
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#43 Same Boat
A magazine for women who work on the internet.
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#44 Why Design Is Hard
Helping designers reframe their frustrations into solvable problems.
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#45 FOR SCALE
the supreme potential of domestic space 🛋
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#46 decor8 by Holly Becker
Bestselling author Holly Becker explores interiors, creative living, and the ways our homes shape our lives.
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#47 Never Sponsored
Tool reviews written by furniture makers Christopher Schwarz and Megan Fitzpatrick. All products are purchased with our own money and at full price. Reviews are honest and brutal. Praise when it's warranted. Damnation when it's not.
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#48 W.D.C. Journal
A newsletter that breaks down interior design topics each week, shares trade-exclusive sources, and shares honest and helpful product recommends. Join now to be part of the W Design community.
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#49 Proof of Concept
Proof of Concept is a digital publication about creativity and experimentation for designers, builders, and entrepreneurs.
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#50 Cross Colours Design Archives
The Cross Colours Design Archives provides an living documentation by CXC co-founder and chief design officer, TJ Walker, of the history, context, and creativity behind the designs for the Cross Colours brand.
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#51 UX Beginner
Weekly newsletter for UX designers learning the craft of user experience, product design, user research and content design. The substack home of UXBeginner.com
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#52 Entrelinha (Plau Design)
O Entrelinha é uma publicação da Plau Design, estúdio de design especializado em tipografia. Este é nosso espaço para falarmos sobre a presença de fontes na nossa cultura, nos nossos negócios e nas nossas vidas.
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#53 Identity Designed
On logos, visual identities, and creative resources, from graphic designer David Airey.
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#54 Pablo Stanley
Pablo Stanley. Comics and essays about design, AI, and making stuff when the machines do most of the making.
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#55 BP&O
Don't want to miss out on the latest brand identity reviews from the BP&O team? Subscribe and each week we will round-up our latest logo posts and reviews.
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#56 SNAKE
FURNITURE DEMYSTIFIED: how to buy, how to understand. Designer—vintage—all eras —est. 2014
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#57 Designing with AI
Exploring the intersection of AI and design. Through experimentation, I'll share observations and reflections on emerging tools, inspiring examples of AI in action, and reflections on the future of design as a discipline.
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#58 Deem Journal
Deem is a global platform focused on design as social practice.
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#59 La newsletter di Frizzifrizzi
design, illustrazione, rubriche e cose belle
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#60 The Avenue Edit
By Saffron Avenue: Brand strategy and design insights from a 15-year veteran designer... plus the real, unfiltered journey of running a solo design studio, adopting AI, raising a baby & toddler, and building a life in our country home.
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#61 Designary
I share weekly product design tips, insights and career advice from my 13 year career as a product design leader.
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#62 The User Research Strategist
On the craft of user research, impact, and AI
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#63 Interior Design Insiders
An edit from me, Lisa Honiball, of interior design industry insights and business expertise - but also ‘life stuff’ that I hope will make your work as an interior designer easier and happier.
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#64 Design Dept.
Design Dept. is the education company for design leaders and teams.
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#65 Dabbling
A creative's dabble with branding, design, decorating, + all things beautiful
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#66 The Anarchist's Apprentice
The journals of woodshop trainee Kale Vogt and furnituremaker Christopher Schwarz, from the Lost Art Press workshop.
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#67 Baseline
A space to document and share my experiences and learnings as a product designer, along with Figma tips to help you feel more comfortable and efficient within the design tool.
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#68 Beth Mathews Design
A Graphic Designer's Archive: Vintage methods, design history, and the creative process behind work for Wes Anderson, Criterion, and Penguin Random House.
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#69 The Creative Newsletter By Lindsay Marsh
As a teacher to over 600,000+ design students globally my passion is to educate and train aspiring designers the business of design. This details my thoughts on business, technology, trends in design and how you can make more money in a creative career.
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#70 The Accidental Archive
curious about everyday objects and the people who leave them behind 🗝️ a project by design historian & educator Kat Zawadzki
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#71 Noted by Anouk Yve
Written by designer and observer Anouk Yve. Noted is an ongoing study of what I notice, curate and love to return to. Captivating taste as strategy across style, interiors, design and ritual.
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#72 Ultraflat
Coming soon.
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#73 The Last Layer by Colin King
Stylist, designer, and author of Arranging Things. I write about the final 10% — the instinct, the edit, the pause. You'll discover styling notes, personal essays, and the quiet, slightly unhinged moments that make a room feel alive.
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#74 Peter Galbert's Chair Notes
Workshop life of a Chairmaker
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#75 Leibal
Passionate about well-designed objects.
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#76 The Design Release
The Design World's Calendar 🌐 Stay up to date on design world news and events with the monthly newsletter read by thousands of industry professionals.
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#77 Meanwhile
Design and other distractions, from the desk of Daniel Benneworth-Gray
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#78 Ground Condition
Ground Condition is a newsletter that explores today's design terrain. Consider it your terra firma for all things design, from the biggest idea to the smallest detail. IG: @kelseykeith
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#79 Growth by Visuals
Turning overthinking into clarity. Join 6,000+ others for visual insights plus first access to new products.
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#80 UX/UI Hub
Your one-stop hub for resources, networking, and industry events!
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#81 On Architecture
This is a newsletter about architecture. We interrogate topics within architecture, aesthetics, practice, history, and theory.
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#82 Glue's Letter
A newsletter giving you updates on my graphic design work/practice, cool design stuff around the internet, my thoughts, and more!
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#83 Home-ish
It's more than decor...
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#84 Design Lobster
Surprising stories from the world of design. Every two weeks on Monday.
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#85 OMGLORD
Things that make G–Lord say OMG
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#86 Kerri-Lee’s Substack
Kerri-Lee Mayland is a TV News Anchor, Airbnb Super Host and Interior Designer. Look to her for tips, tricks and inspiration to help give your home a fresh new feel-- no matter your budget.
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#87 Good Graf!
Design, tech, and writing with substance and style.
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#88 The Homefront
Welcome to The Homefront— a behind-the-scenes look at Bria Hammel Interiors' design process, expert tips and tricks for creating a beautifully curated home, inspiring travel guides, and thoughtfully vetted product recommendations.
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#89 Love and Other Rugs
A newsletter on dating and design.
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#90 Tat’s Substack
My personal Substack
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#91 the Motion Social Club
the Motion Social Club is where designers go to stop procrastinating and start practicing. We cut through the noise to focus on the human things of motion design.
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#92 Schmatta
Schmatta is a design newsletter that embraces all levels of design — we're highbrow, lowbrow, and unibrow. Regular giveaways for paid subscribers.
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#93 Findings by MW.S
A design studio's perspective on the influences and trends that shape our culture.
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#94 Sketching for UX Newsletter
Monthly collection of the best design resources that caught my attention. Subscribers get early access to my UX knowledge base sketches. The topics include: UX design, UI design, service design, visual thinking, cognitive psychology, designing for AI.
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#95 Chance Operations
An exploration of creativity and design featuring new interviews and short documentaries, plus streaming access to Gary Hustwit's films Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized, Workplace, Rams and unreleased footage.
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#96 Sketchnote Lab
Watch sketchnoting solve real problems in real time, then learn to do it yourself. Sketchnote Lab is where visual thinking meets live, messy, practical work to help move your projects forward.
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#97 Chartography
Obsessed with data graphics. Craft, history, and high-stakes chartmaking.
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#98 Awari Insights - Produtos e UX
"Awari Insights - Produtos e UX" é nossa newsletter semanal, conectando profissionais às últimas tendências e conteúdos em Product Management e User Experience. Fique atualizado sobre o mais relevante no universo de Produtos e UX.
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#99 interns.design
Paid design opportunities, career resources, and interviews with designers. By TK Kong (@thetkkong)
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#100 I Know a Spot
Design-focused homes for sale
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