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7 Best Design Newsletters to Subscribe to in 2025

Design newsletters are like a secret stash of inspiration delivered straight to your inbox. They’re curated by people who know their stuff and care about sharing ideas, trends, and discoveries.

Whether you’re looking for product design, typography, or sustainable practices, these newsletters cover it all.

Here’s a list of my favorite design newsletters to kickstart your 2025 inbox.

Best for Design News: Today in Design

If you want to keep up with everything happening in the design world, Today in Design is your daily go-to. It’s packed with bite-sized updates on graphic design, typography, creative tools, and industry news. I love how it balances practicality and inspiration – you’ll find links to articles, resources, and tools you didn’t know you needed.

Reading it feels like a conversation with someone who’s as passionate about design as you are. It’s my favorite way to start the day with a dose of creativity and a sense of what’s trending.

Perfect for: Designers who want to stay informed without sifting through endless news feeds.

Best for Industrial Design: Vivid Red

Discovering well-designed physical products can feel overwhelming, but Vivid Red makes it effortless. Each week, the newsletter delivers five beautifully curated items that highlight the very best in industrial and product design. From sleek home goods to innovative gadgets, every item feels thoughtfully chosen.

It’s not just about aesthetics – these are products you’ll want to use or own because they’re as functional as they are beautiful. If you enjoy discovering clever designs with minimal effort, this is the newsletter to watch.

Perfect for: Anyone who appreciates timeless aesthetics and functional beauty.

Best for Creative Workspaces: Maker Stations

Your workspace says a lot about your creativity, and Maker Stations celebrates that connection. This newsletter showcases jaw-dropping workspaces from around the world, offering a mix of inspiration and practical tips for making your setup both stylish and functional.

Whether it’s minimal desks or maximalist dream setups, every feature feels like a love letter to the places where creativity comes to life. I’ve picked up so many ideas for my own workspace from Maker Stations, and I bet you will, too.

Perfect for: Anyone who believes a great workspace is the foundation of great work.

Best for Product Design: Fundament

Product design can feel complex, but Fundament breaks it down into approachable insights and actionable advice. This newsletter is all about mastering the essentials, whether you’re just starting out or refining your craft.

What makes it stand out is its focus on practical knowledge – you’ll find case studies, design principles, and tips that you can apply immediately. It’s like having a mentor guide you through the intricacies of designing things people love.

Perfect for: Designers who want to deepen their understanding of product design and improve their skills.

Best for Personal Design Insights: Tobias van Schneider

Tobias van Schneider’s newsletter feels like having a candid chat with a friend who happens to be a design genius. His emails are filled with personal stories, industry insights, and practical advice that’s as honest as it is inspiring.

His writing is refreshingly honest, and you’ll often find yourself nodding along or rethinking how you approach your work. It’s a mix of practical advice and inspiration, delivered in a way that feels like a conversation.

What I love most is how Tobias balances creativity and business; you’ll walk away with ideas for your craft and career. It’s the kind of content that sticks with you long after you’ve read it.

Perfect for: Designers looking for thoughtful perspectives on creativity and growth.

Best for Typography Enthusiasts: Fresh Fonts

Typography lovers, this one’s for you. Fresh Fonts is a beautifully curated newsletter that introduces you to new typefaces and font trends every week. It’s perfect for designers who obsess over the details, whether you’re crafting a brand identity or just looking to freshen up your projects.

I’ve found so many hidden gems through Fresh Fonts, and it always sparks ideas for how I can use type more creatively in my work.

Perfect for: Graphic designers and anyone fascinated by the power of typography.

Best for Sustainable Design: Green the Web

Sustainable design is more important than ever, and Green the Web tackles it from a digital perspective. It’s packed with advice on reducing your website’s carbon footprint and making greener design choices. If you care about the planet and want to reflect that in your work, this is the newsletter for you.

Perfect for: Designers committed to creating a more sustainable future.

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A flip clock that's flipping awesome.

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Great Outdoors: The Floating Hot Tub

Envisioned by talented designer Frank de Bruijn, the HotTug has quickly become one of the Netherlands’ quirkiest new inventions. A boat and a floating Jacuzzi in the same time, this ingenious concept is the first wood-fired floating hot tub in the world and offers tremendous experiences whether you’re looking for a bit of romance or just want to take a unique recreational boat trip down the legendary Dutch canals with your friends or colleagues.

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This Backpack Was Inspired by Lisbon’s Most Elegant Neighborhood

I can’t get enough of this stylish backpack from Horizn Studios. Made from water-resistant, 100% recycled materials, it’s lightweight, soft to the touch, and sleeker than most, all while holding everything you need to make it through the day.

The Chiado Backpack opens through a drawstring top into a luxuriously lined interior with a secret pocket for phone or keys. The separate laptop compartment makes for easy access to your device, and there’s also a strap on the back to secure it to your rolling luggage when traveling.

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Dubai’s Talise Ottoman Spa Is Pure Bliss

Decked out in sumptuous marbles, intricate mosaics, and gorgeous Arabesque wood lattice, this splendid retreat is the grand dame of Dubai’s spas.

One of the largest and most luxurious in the Middle East, the Talise Ottoman Spa at Jumeirah Zabeel Saray mesmerizes guests with its opulent marble architecture and over-the-top facilities. In keeping with the hotel’s theme, the 8,000 square meter facility oozes Turkish opulence through its high domed ceilings, majestic columns, and grandiose chandeliers dangling above the baths.

The multi-awarded complex is set over several floors and includes a staggering array of treatment and steam rooms, exquisite saunas, and lavish thalassotherapy pools – all connected by beautiful marble archways and candle-lined corridors infused with exotic, calm-inducing scents.

Nevertheless, its most spectacular feature is the grand central Hammam – the biggest in the Middle East, where rituals include precious ingredients such as 24-carat gold, Arabian roses, or black olive soap. But more than just your average spa, Talise has three of them – all clad in pristine marble, dark woods, and stunning murals, as well as whimsical floating baths, exotic Thai gardens, adventure showers, and unique snow rooms that feel more like the Arctic than Dubai.

Fit for royalty, the divine massages on offer combine Ottoman healing philosophies with modern-day techniques, providing visitors with moments of blissful rest and relaxation. And the tastefully ornate design throughout only adds an extra layer of grandeur to your luxurious multi-sensory experience.

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Hideout Horizon: An Off-Grid Escape for Contemporary Tarzans and Janes in Bali

Nestled in dreamy jungle surrounds, about 30 min drive from Amlapura, Hideout Horizon is the ideal adventure seeker's getaway. Created by Bali-based Studio WNA, the exotic three-level structure is completely open, with bespoke bamboo furnishings throughout and a welcoming indoor-outdoor plunge pool for refreshing dips.

Design-wise, the latest addition to Hideout's repertoire of eco bamboo homes is a treasure trove of playful touches. A hanging net above the pool provides a dreamy place to relax, a large round bed seems to float in mid-air, and sliding ramps serve as stairs, connecting the space's different levels while fulfilling all your Tarzan and Jane fantasies. There's also an outdoor shower, a chic bamboo swing, and an A-frame grass roof sheltering the lodge from the elements.

Photos: The Freedom Complex, Maya Gypsy

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andBeyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge: Sleek Sustainability and Stellar Stargazing in the Namib Desert

Striking sustainable design, helicopter rides over the blood-orange dunes, and stargazing sessions with an astronomer - you don’t get many chances to experience the otherworldly Namib desert this way. Renovated by architect Jack Alexander and Fox Browne Creative agency, the recently opened andBeyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge offers all these and much more amidst one of Africa’s most spellbinding landscapes.

Fusing rock, glass, and rusted steel, the hotel’s architecture takes inspiration from the surreal surroundings, and so do its sleek interiors. There are 10 stand-alone suites, each entirely solar-powered and refined with thoughtful details like over-bed skylights, private plunge pools, and floor-to-ceiling windows framing the passing wildlife.

Photos - andBeyond/Dook Photography

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Lamia del Riccio: A Classic Italian Countryside Retreat, Reimagined

An oasis of calm and style perfectly in sync with the surrounding nature, Lamia del Riccio is a stellar example of traditional dwelling renovation done right. Nestled in the Apulian countryside, near Ostuni, this family-run holiday home combines vernacular architecture with a modern Mediterranean flair, courtesy of Italian designer Gian Paolo Guerra. The property revolves around a newly built limestone lamia (typical to the area), but the master bedroom suite is housed in an original Saracen trullo.

The same refined mix of old and new flows throughout the interiors, which are masterfully crafted in a restrained color palette, with both contemporary and vintage decor pieces, as well as an abundance of natural materials.

The villa’s outdoor areas are equally well designed so guests can disconnect from the world outside and experience the real Italian way of life in all its glory - think alfresco meals with friends and family, aperitivi by the pool, and lots of dolce far niente moments to fill your day.

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A Bangkok Coffee Shop for Design Lovers

The last few years have been all about drinking coffee in inspiring surroundings, and that’s exactly what Kaizen - a beautifully designed cafe in Bangkok's hipster-loving Ekamai - stands for.

Housed in a sleek glass-walled structure, the double-height space is modern but welcoming, with neat light oak furnishings and smart lighting throughout. While the neutral color palette sets a calm tone, an offbeat mix of textures adds the right urban attitude to the ensemble. Envisioned by local design studio space+craft, the interior is a rhapsody of warm wood, cool metal, rough brick, and just a little bit of gloss.

Cool aesthetics aside, their coffee is a real highlight, with intriguing specialty blends and single-origin roasts for every taste. The coffee shop also serves a variety of healthy meals, from vibrant acai bowls to freshly made egg sandwiches.

Photos: Ketsiree Wongwan

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A Modernist Jungle Hideaway Awaits Outside Tulum

Mexico is in the midst of an architectural revolution, and this whimsical retreat outside Tulum is very much part of it. Immersed in the jungles of the Unesco-protected Sian Ka’an Biosphere, this villa is a masterclass in green luxury - sustainably designed, expertly staffed, and blissfully embedded in nature.

A brainchild of Mexico City-based architectural studio Productora, Casa Bautista combines heavy blue-hued concrete with lightweight timber pergolas in rich cognac creating a novel, unique design aesthetic. Fluid living spaces seamlessly merge the outdoors in, and there’s a delicate tropical vibe that permeates the place, balancing the striking Brutalist accents. Large open-air patios and terraces grace the modernist rooms and a rooftop pool glistens invitingly atop the jungle canopy, offering calming views of the Caribbean Sea.

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Made in Bali: Escape Reality at an Open-Air Bamboo Dome in the Jungle

Otherworldly bamboo architecture, epic rice-field views, and your own natural plunge pool...Moon House promises an unforgettable eco-chic escape from it all.

The most romantic of Bambu Indah’s dreamy, stand-alone rooms, this open-air dome tucked into the jungles outside Ubud opens up to the luscious landscape for a fully immersive experience. Add suspended bridges, a massive canopy bed, and a secluded copper tub for moonlight bathing, and what you’ve got is a true love nest.

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A Quaint A-Frame Cabin in the Cascades

Who doesn’t love an A-frame cabin in the woods? Nestled in the Cascade Mountains, only an hour and a half east of Seattle, and surrounded by some of the best hikes in the Pacific Northwest, Sky Haus is the perfect place to escape from everyday life.

With a spacious retro-fitted living room, lofted beds, floor-to-ceiling windows, wood-paneled walls, and a fully equipped kitchen, this cozy Airbnb has it all. There’s even a fireplace, and an outdoor hot tub to fulfill all your cabin fantasies.

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Unwind in True Cycladic Fashion at Oia’s Andronis Arcadia Hotel

Santorini is an island where hotels compete for views of mesmerizing seascapes and sunsets, and Andronis Arcadia delivers them in spades. But that’s not all that draws in vacationers - the stylish all-suite hotel on the edge of Oia is replete with amenities and looks like it came out of the pages of a decor magazine.

A classy, contemporary take on the traditional Cycladic style, the architecture is an ensemble of white cubic volumes interspersed with dreamy turquoise pools and magnificent outdoor terraces. The interiors are earthy, polished, and minimal, with light oak furnishings and inspired craft details placed against an abundance of smooth white and beige surfaces.

Photos: Yiorgos Kordakis

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For a Scenic All-Encompassing Stay in Mallorca, Head to Blau PortoPetro Beach Resort & Spa

Set in extensive manicured grounds along Mallorca’s lesser developed south east shore, this sleek, sprawling hotel balances blissful relaxation with endless adventures, all while delivering some of the best coastal views in this part of the island.

From welcoming double rooms to romantic sea-view suites to exclusive butler-served villas with private pool, there’s an accommodation option for every taste and need at Blau PortoPetro Beach Resort & Spa - all bathed in glowing Mediterranean sunlight and contemporary comfort.

The pretty fishing village of Portopetro is only a short walk away and the setting couldn’t be more perfect, but it's the hotel's never-ending list of amenities and experiences that ends up being its biggest draw.

Guests can play golf, swim in a secluded cove, partake in a plethora of water sports, or relax with an ayurvedic treatment in the remarkable spa. Throw in 3 sparkling blue pools and 7 tennis courts, direct access to an idyllic beach, and a wide choice of restaurants serving everything from gourmet Japanese cuisine to Mediterranean delights and you have all the makings of a fabulous Mediterranean vacation.

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Santorini’s Vora Private Villas Is a Dreamy Refuge with Design Credentials

Built by hand over a period of four years, Vora Private Villas is a splendid Santorini hotel fusing minimalistic Cycladic design with vernacular architecture high above the majestic Aegean Sea.

Carved into the island’s legendary caves and cliffs, the unique private villas making up the property are all dressed in soothing neutrals and natural materials, with black volcanic rock accents and sophisticated custom-made furnishings worthy of the pages of a design magazine.

Completing the picture are private plunge pools and panoramic verandas for basking in the sun, feasting alfresco, and contemplating the surreal scenery.

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Hip Rustic Decor and Cool Surf Vibes Flood This Barefoot-Chic Hotel in Guatemala

Designed by its architect owner, Swell is a fresh take on the area's traditional aesthetic, with thatched palm roofs, tropical outdoor showers, and colorful textiles handmade by local artisans. It sits on a volcanic black sand beach in El Paredón, the nation’s secret surfing paradise, and oozes bohemian sophistication through every square foot.

Set amidst lush tropical gardens, the hotel’s charming rooms range from a contemporary concrete abode to a delightfully cozy cabanita surrounded by lemon trees. Swim-up suites and thatched bungalows on stilts complete the accommodation choices, while thoughtfully designed communal spaces invite guests to kick back, relax, and socialize in laid-back, creatively styled surroundings.

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A Kyoto Hotel Styled to Minimalism Perfection

Although smack dab in downtown Kyoto, MOGANA Hotel emanates calm and serenity with its clean lines, subdued color palette, and glorious interplay of light and darkness.

Created by Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates, the interior design is sleek, fresh, and strikingly minimalist. Nods to tradition are balanced with contemporary concepts in order to connect guests with their destination.

Rooms are effortlessly refined sanctuaries where modern comforts meet reinterpreted aesthetics of the past. They vary in style, mood, and decor, but all boast floor-to-ceiling windows facing a vibrant vertical garden and thoughtful amenities such as Wi-Fi, luxurious SHIGETA cosmetics, and matohu zori (Japanese sandals).