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#1 ADPList’s Newsletter
Get the world's most powerful insight on product design and accelerating your career — 1 idea, every week.
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#2 CGP Grey
Creating video explainers and podcasts.
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#3 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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#4 Design Better
Hosted by Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter, the Design Better podcast explores creativity at the intersection of design and technology.
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#5 UX Movement Newsletter
Become a master at designing user experiences
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#6 The Art of Noticing
Ideas, inspiration, and provocations for creativity, work, and staying human. From author Rob Walker.
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#7 Hilah's Things
I'm Hilah, the CEO and founder of Spoak. This is a weekly newsletter full of my favorite things, my musings on life and work and design, and anything else that’s tickling my fancy. I hope it brings a bit of sunshine to your inbox.
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#8 La French | Connection
💌 Une Newsletter sur les agences d'architecture destinée aux architectes. News | Jobs | Masterclass. Si comme + de 25.000 architectes, vous voulez mieux maîtriser votre actualité, vous êtes au bon endroit.
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#9 The Aesthete
Beautiful art, objects ands spaces meticulously curated and delivered fresh to your inbox. Subscribe, and your Tuesdays will never be the same again.
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#10 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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#11 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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#12 À La Carte
À La Carte is a newsletter by creative director Ali LaBelle that explores creativity, curiosity, and things of beauty.
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#13 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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#14 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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#15 Typeverything Fonts
Font news
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#16 decor8
Subscribe for exclusive access to 4x best-selling author and interior designer Holly Becker's top home styling ideas, decor trends, and insider inspiration to create a beautiful, meaningful home you'll love + access her Substack-only podcast, RESTYLE.
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#17 Logo Histories
Get an instant logo design history lesson – discover the internet's biggest collection of logo stories with Logo Histories.
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#18 Mad About The House by Kate Watson-Smyth
Learn how to create beautiful interiors and find your own design style from the best-selling author and founder of the award-winning blog madaboutthehouse.com
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#19 Skeuomorphic Design: Lessons from Apple's Golden Era
Skeuomorphic Design: Lessons from Apple's Golden Era delves into the transformative years when Apple, under the guidance of Steve Jobs, championed skeuomorphic design to create some of the most iconic and people-friendly digital interfaces.
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#20 Identity Designed
Logo and visual identity design inspiration, from graphic designer David Airey.
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#21 BP&O Weekly
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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#22 The Experience Designer's Almanac
Welcome to my personal almanac, a distillation of insights from crafting extraordinary branded journeys. Subscribe to uncover techniques for immersive narratives and forging emotional connections through experience design that drive better business.
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#23 Feeling! Magazine
A personal diary about the intersection of design and feelings from an artist with a whole lot of feelings.
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#24 Elevated Spaces
Designing. Tinkering. Skill building with friends. Creating a community. This is where I explain those processes and projects and how they intersect with personal and communal growth.
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#25 FOR SCALE
the supreme potential of domestic space 🛋
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#26 A Considered Space
Relatable writing, useful recommendations and obsessively curated edits from a design journalist for House & Garden, Vogue, etc. Come on in!
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#27 Proof of Concept
Proof of Concept is a digital publication about creativity and experimentation for designers, builders, and entrepreneurs.
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#28 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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#29 La newsletter di Frizzifrizzi
design, illustrazione, rubriche e cose belle
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#30 Sitting Pretty
A newsletter about interiors, design, and other things — from writer Tyler Watamanuk.
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#31 SNAKE
1.) The best furniture every week, all styles and price points, on auction 2.) Monthly brand/designer profiles 3.) Biweekly interviews about vintage 4.) Since 2014
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#32 (des)Conectar 📴
Reflexiones promoviendo un uso consciente de la tecnología y las redes sociales
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#33 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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#34 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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#35 nolandanielwhite
A weekly newsletter for design minded folk seeking out the best in fashion, watches, interior design, and more!
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#36 Design Dept.
Design Dept. is the education company for design leaders and teams.
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#37 OMGLORD
Things that make G–Lord say OMG
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#38 Meanwhile
Thinks and links from the desk of designer Daniel Benneworth-Gray.
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#39 The Creative Newsletter By Lindsay Marsh
As a teacher to over 400,000+ 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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#40 Deem Journal
Deem is a global platform focused on design as social practice.
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#41 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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#42 Tat’s Substack
My personal Substack
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#43 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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#44 Peter Galbert's Chair Notes
Workshop life of a Chairmaker
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#45 interns.design
Paid design opportunities, career resources, and interviews with designers. By TK Kong (@thetkkong)
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#46 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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#47 Eduardo Taulois
Escrevo sobre minhas empreitadas pela vida
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#48 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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#49 I Know a Spot
Design-focused homes for sale
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#50 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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#51 Explorations and explanations
Dave Gray’s email list
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#52 Dabbling
A creative's dabble with branding, design, decorating, + all things beautiful
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#53 Art Direction
Art Direction: A newsletter all about art direction, from creative inspiration and education to in-depth brand analysis and emerging trends.
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#54 New York Review of Architecture
reviews architecture, in New York
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#55 Huddle Stories
Stories about the designers, builders and founders making things together inside Huddle.
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#56 Love and Other Rugs
A newsletter on dating and design.
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#57 Design Lobster
Surprising stories from the world of design. Every two weeks on Monday.
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#58 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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#59 Tim Whalin's Newsletter
Musings about design, work, careers, life, and culture from a Principal UX Designer
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#60 Friday Cabins
For lovers of leisure architecture, interior design, and other cabin lifestyle adjacent stuff, too. Sent each Friday, ofc.
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#61 Schmatta
This newsletter is mostly about design — we talk about it in a way that is both curious and chaotic. From former shelter pub EIC Leonora Epstein.
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#62 Lily Konings
An advice column on a career in design.
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#63 Chartography
Information-design insights and inspiration. Featuring charts and more, from yesteryear to today.
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#64 Ground Condition
Ground Condition is a monthly newsletter that explores today's design terrain. Consider it your terra firma for all things design, from the biggest idea to the smallest detail.
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#65 The Plot
The newsletter that will help you become a better data storyteller. In your inbox every other Thursday at 3pm CET.
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#66 Caipiroska
Storie di linguaggi umani, UX Writing, contenuto nel design
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#67 39milliseconds
3 visual ideas from the world’s top creators delivered to you weekly
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#68 Plan Your Next
We all have the next thing. Maybe it's a product you're building, a new skill you're acquiring, a goal to land a new job, or a trip you're going to take. Every Sunday I tell stories to inspire forward momentum.
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#69 Visual Storytelling Newsletter
Subscribe for free to receive weekly insights on visual storytelling strategies, tech trends, and expert interviews to elevate your marketing game
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#70 The Ambitious Designer
Are you an ambitious product designer seeking to elevate your design skills and stay ahead of the curve? Written by @richardux, an experienced designer who self-taught their way to the top of the field.
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#71 Michele De Lucchi’s Substack
I write about architecture, design, innovation, our common futures; about Italy, the places I visit around the world, and the wonderful people I meet. Dedicated to exploration!
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#72 Defining Experience
A Chief Design Officer’s perspective on design leadership, experience-led culture, emerging tech, and the future of work.
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#73 THE NWS
Weekly stories and observations on space. Points of view from different points in time.
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#74 Rectangle
A newsletter about rectangles, but mostly just design.
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#75 PackLead
A newsletter para líderes de design do futuro.
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#76 Psychedelics Design
A newsletter about design and psychedelics (mostly)
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#77 makers gonna make
newsletter quinzenal e gratuita sobre design, criatividade & sociedade. às terças pela manhã.
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#78 Good Graf!
Design, tech, and writing with substance and style.
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#79 The FirstLight Workshop
I sold most of my machines, dragged my workbench into the middle of the floor and I'm going to make things with hand tools instead of making dust.
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#80 Metodo Boshi
La community di designer contro la mediocrità dove imparare a progettare con criterio. Parliamo di grafica, creatività, webdesign, mestiere della creatività.
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#81 Layers
The latest design tips, tools, inspiration, and resources sent straight to your inbox.
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#82 tiptoptypetips
Typography & Design, one tip at a time. This is home to The Roundup— a fortnightly newsletter of just 3 things related to typography— stories, fonts, lists and insights. The Roundup is part of tiptoptypetips.com
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#83 Design Things by Anson Cheung
An industrial designer's thoughts on how and why we design the things around us.
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#84 Our Built Environment
Exploring how to create better places for everyone in our shared built environment through the lens of urban planning, real estate development and placemaking.
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#85 Hygge for Home by Reena Simon
For anyone seeking calm amongst the chaos of modern life. A weekly Newsletter and Edits on Scandinavian Interior Design, appealing to all five senses. Explore neutral, cozy interiors, fashion & travel & a renovation.
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#86 Building Knowledge
Sharing my knowledge from the construction and architecture industries so you can build yours!
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#87 undefended / undefeated
Sara Hendren's words and ideas about design, technology, art, education, and more
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#88 gr8 collab
brands, spaces, & creatives through the lens of design.
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#89 Design Harder
Typography. Color. Capitalism. Chaos. A newsletter about graphic design.
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#90 Design better products and careers
Senior UX Designer, Design Educator, and Founder at Liftyz. I share tips to help you design better products and a more successful tech career. All views are on my own.
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#91 this week in design™
TMZ but for design twitter
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#92 The Architecture Lobby
An international organization of architectural workers, planners, and designers advocating for the value of architecture in the general public and for architectural work within the discipline.
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#93 Soren’s Substack
New design concepts daily
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#94 With Working Hands
Thoughts and work from a one-man furniture shop in coastal Maine.
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#95 Degreeless.Design Digest
Sharing my perspectives on product design as a practice and a career. Deep dive into new and important topics every other week.
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#96 デザイナーの英語帳
サンフランシスコで働くデザイナーが、現場で使っている英単語やフレーズを紹介しているニュースレターです。購読していただくと、毎週、日本時間の月曜日に届きます。
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#97 Folie’s Substack
A wild trip of interiors, design, travel and food. With personal stories of all things related to womanhood.
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#98 VIEWFINDER
A series of concept camera explorations by an open collective of photo nerds 🤓. Ideations on new hardware, UX and interface design paradigms. straight to your inbox. Guided by passion and ruled by feasibility.
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#99 Designill’s Newsletter
Weekly newsletter, packed with exclusive design tips and links to useful websites.
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#100 Designtips.today | 產品設計的錦囊妙計
Design Tips Today, Design with better way.
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