John Maeda | Twitter
The design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Maeda has a unique vantage point on the intersection of tech and design, and as the former president of RISD he’s got a good eye for up-and-coming talent too.
The Dieline | Website
The reason you’ll spend $11 on a chocolate bar isn’t the cocoa, it’s the packaging. The Dieline charts all that tempts your wallet, from soapboxes to wine labels to restaurant takeout.
Planet Money | Podcast
Economics is more than supply-and-demand charts; as Planet Money shows, it explains how the ubiquitous sticker price tag came to exist and the complexities involved in making a plain old T-shirt.
It’s Nice That | Website
A blend of creative inspirations, this site is at its best when highlighting illustration and graphic design work.
Purple Diary | Blog
Purple is a French fashion magazine, and this is the visual diary of its editor, Olivier Zahm, covering fashion, fine art, architecture, nightlife, television, travel, sex, photography, and, well, the French.
NewHive | Platform
The multimedia self-publishing platform, which allows creators to build their own mini websites, is a strange—but inspiring—visual rabbit hole.
Designer News | RSS
Most RSS feeds don’t have much in the way of news sensibility. But this digest is curated by real people in design and technology—and it shows.
Cooper Hewitt | YouTube
The national design museum’s channel is an extension of the museum itself: a great mix of lectures, curator talks, and multimedia projects.
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The New York Times and WIRED contributor’s feed features found-object illustrations that will boggle your mind, making you reconsider your perspective on mundane things all around you.
Creative Applications | Blog
On Filip Visnjic’s blog dedicated to projects that straddle the ever-blurring line between art and technology, he muses, in equal parts, on code base and artistic aesthetics.
Alice Rawsthorn | Instagram
The breadth and depth of Rawsthorn’s design knowledge is astounding. Each week she offers a new series of images around a single theme, each a capsule design-history lesson.
House Industries | Instagram
A must-follow account for a daily dose of all things retro typography.
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Byrne is an LA-based photographer who posts amazing, evocative images of urban Los Angeles.
Daily Heller | Newsletter
Renowned art director and prolific publisher Steven Heller’s newsletter is your CliffsNotes to the history of graphic design.
Louise Fili | Instagram
Fili designed book jackets for more than a decade. Now her design company specializes in food packaging and restaurant branding. She’s a phenomenal type designer who catalogs beautiful typography and signs everywhere she goes.
Elastic.tv | Website
Need a visual escape? Visit this site to check out the work of Patrick Clair, the visionary, Emmy Award-winning director behind True Detective’s opening credits.
Paola Antonelli | Twitter
As MoMA’s senior curator of architecture and design and its director of R&D, Antonelli is an arbiter of taste who effortlessly discovers and digests gems in all disciplines of design.
Song Exploder | Podcast
Every episode offers an anatomy of the sonic design of a single song, as told by the artist to host Hrishikesh Hirway.
Prosthetic Knowledge | Tumblr
An enriching and scrollable journey through the most intriguing art and technology projects on the web, shown mostly as hypnotic GIFs. Be warned, this feed is highly addictive.
MagCulture | Website
Believe it or not, there’s a thriving independent magazine scene, particularly in Europe. Don’t believe us? Check out UK-based journalist and tastemaker Jeremy Leslie’s love letter to beautiful little magazines.
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Kalen Hollomon | Instagram
Extremely weird and off-putting mixed-media art that will make you stare into your phone, unable to look away.
Future Perfect | Blog
Jan Chipchase runs a research, design, and innovation consultancy. The global trend hunter faithfully documents his cultural explorations on this cinematic design-blog-cum-travelogue.
Flowing Data | Blog
Design for the mathematically minded: Nathan Yau takes complex data sets—on policy, sandwich shops, and everything in between—and expertly paints them into stunning graphics.
