10 Design Tweeters To Know Right Now

This week was Design Week in New York, and in honor of all the creativity stirring around us, we're taking a look at yours, and our, favorite design devotees on Twitter. Here, we've gathered 10 tweeters cut from different cloths, from interior to graphic to typographic. Some offer news, others commentary and others yet amazing feats of design all around us.

Design, as we all know, is a broad designator, so we've eliminated architecture for the most part (stay tuned for a separate list devoted to it). Our list is by no means comprehensive and is meant to serve as an entry point, so let us know who we missed in the comments!

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• johnmaeda

  John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design, is full of words of wisdom for his followers, like this one here. <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/johnmaeda" target="_hplink">Follow him</a> for design news and daily inspiration.

• erik spiekermann

  Typography nerds! Rally 'round typographer/designer Erik Spiekermann <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/espiekermann" target="_hplink">font-friendly feed</a>.

• The Daily Heller

  Criticism, commentary and news on visual design, from <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/thedailyheller" target="_hplink">Print Magazine's Stephen Heller</a>.

• blprnt

  Over on the more obscure end of graphic design, we have data visualizer Jer Thorp, a Data Artist in Resident at the NYTimes and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/blprnt" target="_hplink">prolific tweeter</a>.

• Grace Bonney

  Are you into DIY? Design Sponge's Grace Bonney is <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/designsponge" target="_hplink">here for you</a>!

• Design Milk

  More on the home design front but less on the DIY, we have <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/designmilk" target="_hplink">Design Milk</a>, for all your interior design needs.

• Alice Rawsthorn

  Design critic of the International Herald Tribune, Alice Rawsthorn offers <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/alicerawsthorn" target="_hplink">thoughtful commentary</a> on design, like this here one on her soup spoon.

• Cool Hunting

  Cool Hunting <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/coolhunting" target="_hplink">explores</a> the "intersection of art, design, culture and technology"... all of which is present right in this tweet.

• Zahra Ebrahim

  Zahra Ebrahim of Architext is trying to change the way we see design in our daily lives. See how the conversation develops <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/zahraeb" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Jaime Gillin

  Dwell magazine deputy editor Jaime Gillin offers a <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/jaimegillin" target="_hplink">good mix</a> of interior, exterior and graphic design news.

Comments

[rxprint]

10:53 AM on 07/28/2012

@rxprint is a great freelancers resource.

[Leilani lei]

07:48 PM on 06/17/2012

I really don't mind Design Logos/Monograms (to an extent, because I see as form of art). Its when the designer name is spelled out when I begin to see people as walking billboards.

[kangaroople]

05:00 PM on 05/19/2012

Great list...I'd add:
Architizer http://twitter.com/#!/architizer
Apartment Therapy http://twitter.com/#!/AptTherapy
Behance http://twitter.com/#!/behance
BDI/British Design Innovation http://twitter.com/#!/_BDI_
Boing Boing http://twitter.com/#!/boingboing
COLOURlovers http://twitter.com/#!/colourlovers
coroflot http://twitter.com/#!/coroflot
Design Criticism http://twitter.com/#!/dcrit
DesignObserver http://twitter.com/#!/designobserver
DesignTAXI http://twitter.com/#!/designtaxi
Dexigner http://twitter.com/#!/dexigner
Holly Becker/decor8 http://twitter.com/#!/decor8
HOW Design http://twitter.com/#!/HOWbrand
HOWInteractiveDesign http://twitter.com/#!/HOWinteractive
inhabitat http://twitter.com/#!/inhabitat
Laughing Squid http://twitter.com/#!/laughingsquid
MoCo Loco http://twitter.com/#!/mocoloco
The Dieline http://twitter.com/#!/thedieline

[point thinker]

01:37 PM on 05/19/2012

@designinform is a good one too. Feed from http://designinfo.tumblr.com/