100 must-follow Pinterest accounts for graphic designers

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, this bright and vibrant art and design blog shares a wealth of creative inspiration.

Followers: 37K

5. Kinfolk Magazine

One of the best lifestyle magazines around, and 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, owner of Local Milk, a blog about slow living. Beth is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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. Based in both Manchester and London.

Followers: 4.4K

11. It's Nice That

Another leading London-based blog, with an emphasis on graphic design.

Followers: 5.6K

12. Creative Review

London-based 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 Swede 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, courtesy of this 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

Hi! 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 presents "global projects oriented to the new interactive market where the usability and vitality that new technologies provide are the key component". A admired studio based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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 independent New Zealand design studio specialising in branding, custom typography and print design. Small studio / massive ideas.

Followers: 78.4K

26. Vice Versa Design Studio

Vice Versa design studio is the first Infographics design studio in South Korea.

Followers: 8.2K

27. UnderConsideration

A graphic design firm from Austin, Texas, generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit.

Followers: 52.8K

28. 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

29. 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

Designers & Artists

30. Emma Linnea Davis

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

Followers: 137K

31. Jessica Walsh

Partner at Sagmeister & Walsh in NYC.

Followers: 30.7K

32. Brandon Lesley

Texas-based creative director, designer, photographer, music nerd and documenter of fine design.

Followers: 630K

33. 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

34. Spenceroni

Melbourne-based graphic artist, illustrator and maker, and lecturer at Shillington.

Followers: 1.4K

35. Tobias Appelgren

Oslo/Apelgren-based designer, offering creative strategy and branded innovation.

Followers: 15K

36. Chloé Douglas

Vancouver, Canada-based designer, art director and colour enthusiast via www.plentyofcolour.com.

Followers: 576.1K

37. 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

38. Jess Wright

Designer based in Melbourne.

Followers: 87.5K

39. Eduardo Dosuá

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

Followers: 110.9K

40. De perdidos al río

Graphic designer living in Valencia.

Followers: 4.1K

41. Anna Dunn

London designer and illustrator, and a lecturer at Shillington's London campus.

Followers: 18.4K

42. Kan Wei

New York designer.

Followers: 14.3K

43. Suann Song

Founder and Creative Director at Appointed in Washington, D.C.

Followers: 691.2K

44. Annie Bastien

Montréal-based designer graphique et professeure de graphisme / Graphic designer and graphic design teacher.

Followers: 114K

45. Amy Sia

Australian London-based fashion and textile print designer. Loves painting, colour, print and pattern.

Followers: 195.9K

46. Mervi / Werkshoppe

Freelance creative from Helsinki, Finland 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

47. Shuji Fukada

Japanese graphic designer.

Followers: 87.2K

48. Tia Queen

Brisbane-based graphic designer with a love for pixels and paper, and a lecturer at Shillington's Brisbane campus.

Followers: 2.8K

49. Neil Ramsbottom

Founder and designer at Studio eNaR and co-founder of Bitique. Fan of graphic design, architecture and the sweet science of boxing. Based in Manchester.

Followers: 9.1K

50. Georgia Perry

Melbourne designer and illustrator, creating chic and eccentric accessories. She's also a guest lecturer at Shillington in Melbourne.

Followers: 615

51. Lee Nicol

Senior creative at The Creative Method in Sydney, Australia and ex-Shillington teacher.

Followers: 260

52. Massimo Pitis

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

Followers: 1.2K

53. Miagrphx

Lisbon-based graphic designer. Made of awesomeness. Daydreamer & night thinker. Full-time Geek. Interested in design, art, photo, body art, weird.

Followers: 179.8K

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 Images

Over 800,000 high quality photos, vector graphics, and videos on Pixabay.com, a startup based in Germany. All images are 100% free to use.

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

Straight out of Indonesia, Free Design Resources is a site dedicated to help you find the highest quality free resources for your design.

Followers: 1.5K

65. Creative Market

Creative Market, based in San Francisco, is a marketplace for design assets like graphics, photos, fonts, website themes, icons, brushes and more.

Followers: 173K

66. Graphic Design Junction

Get free daily graphic inspirational resources for designers and developers.

Followers: 84.3K

Design Organisations & Events

67. Shillington

One of the world's leading graphic design schools (where I happen to work) shares its student work, inspirations, resources and everything design on its rich and varied Pinterest feed.

Followers: 3.3K

68. The Design Museum

Based in London, The Design Museum is one of the world's leading museums devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, and architecture to industrial design.

Followers: 25.1K

69. 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

70. SFMOMA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Followers: 31K

Typography

71. Wayne Thompson

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

Followers: 173

72. Luca Barcellona

Calligrapher and graphic designer from Milan, Italy.

Followers: 1K

73. Seb Lester

East Sussex-based creative specialising in letterform art, design and illustration.

Followers: 1.8K

74. Font Picker

Font Picker is a simple app to browse and choose fonts on your computer. Based in Leeds, UK.

Followers: 3.3K

75. Type Worship

Counterpart to the Type Worship blog. Celebrating beautiful letterforms. Based in London and Sydney.

Followers: 569

76. 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

77. Society6

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

Followers: 188.9K

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, a firm based in Sydney, Australia.

Followers: 60.8K

84. Guy Kawasaki

Silicon Valley, CA genuis 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