30 Beautiful Examples of Illustrated Twitter Backgrounds
Twitter can be a powerful tool to communicate and connect with people through words, but it can also be a great way to promote your brand through visual design. Twitter does limit you when it comes to customizing your page, but you do have full control over the background image. There are a lot of creative twitter backgrounds out there, but some of my favorites are those that have a more illustrated style.
If you know of more really good illustrated twitter backgrounds, let us know.
@arinee
@shirtpizza
@mj12982
@spurrachel
@peachpops
@Go_Media
@boxmodel
@chadworth
@DesignerDepot
@carywood
@smashingmag
@meghunt
@mikebithell
@mailchimp
@doubleolee
@anousone
@canvascubed
@sickbrain
@fragments77
@happytreefriend
@Hicksdesign
@Malarkey
@meetblink
@sallid
@carsonified
@KrisColvin
@bongobrian
@Krftd
@Vectips
@djambazov
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44 comments
mkm
October 22, 2009frankly I don’t find @smashingmag’s background all that terrific. I expected something more interesting than a few branches and a couple clouds.
Ilona
October 22, 2009Wow! Nice ones! I definitely got to design new layout for my twitter page. Thank you for inspiration!
jrenvoye
October 22, 2009Check this one
http://twitter.com/julienrenvoye
nezua
October 22, 2009here’s mine:
http://twitter.com/nezua
and
http://twitter.com/XOLAGRAFIK
Kerri
October 22, 2009These are great! I was trying to think of what I would do for mine. Now I have some great inspiration!
Phil Franks
October 22, 2009Those are all cool, but you forgot one! http://twitter.com/phil_franks
Jan Cavan
October 22, 2009Thanks for including me on this list!
neagaoleg
October 22, 2009smashinmag is default background on twitter
w3bdesign
October 22, 2009http://twitter.com/w3bdesign
shane
October 22, 2009thumbs up or thumbs down on my illustrated background? http://twitter.com/shanesnow
Shawn
October 22, 2009I’m more than a bit biased but, I think our CD Nik did a awesome job on our background (also a robot):
http://www.twitter.com/rtraction
Martin Leblanc
October 22, 2009What about: http://twitter.com/iconfinder ?
Liz
October 22, 2009I’m disappointed not to see mine (http://twitter.com/nwjerseyliz) as I think @HughBriss did an excellent job.
shirt pizza
October 22, 2009I appreciate the @shirtpizza mention – thanks Henry!
John Campbell
October 22, 2009Very nice collection Henry! I keep wanting to spruce up my @designbumped background but I just haven’t gotten around to it!
Henry
October 22, 2009@John Campbell: Same here. I have been neglecting our twitter background forever.
Nap Warden
October 22, 2009Where’s mine? http://twitter.com/napwarden
Nice list, but Smashing is a default:(
Sorin Istudor
October 22, 2009for twitter background have a look at mine: http://twitter.com/istudorsorin
Ant Robinson
October 23, 2009My Fav background at the moment is @gentingcasino http://twitter.com/gentingcasino
adrien
October 24, 2009twitter.com/FreestyleMVT and twitter.com/AdriensAne have illustrated elements..
Simon
October 24, 2009All look rubbish on a 1024×768 resolution!
chris
October 24, 2009what about mine: http://twitter.com/inspirebit
IdealHut
October 25, 2009Very useful post to take many different ideas.
& what about mine: http://twitter.com/idealhut
F.Fx
October 26, 2009Good Job
Not bad : http://twitter.com/brin_de_web
lipelip
October 26, 2009Nice collection
Here’s mine http://twitter.com/lipelip
David
October 26, 2009Nice ones!!! Here is mine: http://twitter.com/Laplanted
Erica
October 30, 2009@KRisColvin’s “illustrated” background is a tiled, seamless graphic from istockphoto. It’s been my bg for almost 2 years.
@ericablonde
Melody
November 2, 2009I love how everyone is putting up their own haha..Mikebithell’s is sick!
Computer Video Tutorials
November 3, 2009Mine: http://twitter.com/namln. It’s not beautiful or great, but I really like it.
Anyway, thanks for this post.
yaskii
November 3, 2009I like my twitter background too http://twitter.com/inogando
Richelle
November 4, 2009Love @canvascubed … awesome stuff!
great collection thanks …
mine is http://twitter.com/conceptn_design
Bobby
November 4, 2009Check this guy out… He’s good!
http://www.twitter.com/dancaina
UXPassion.com
November 4, 2009Take a look at http://www.twitter.com/viborc and http://www.twitter.com/adebak – they are Twitter backgrounds optimized for different screen resolutions
PrintRadar
November 16, 2009Jeeez this mailchimp is in every list out there.. Not saying it is bad though
And yes.. smashingmag is a default twitter background and it is nice but still default one so can I be in the list then? 
Nick Brookfield
November 16, 2009check out mine!
http://www.twitter.com/nickbrookfield
PixMan™
November 19, 2009Check out mine too!! @pixmaniaco
Tom
November 23, 2009I would add this one to the list http://www.twitter.com/campleaders
emily
November 30, 2009birds in suits anyone? http://twitter.com/EmilyHaggar
Adri Alves
December 2, 2009Good job!
What about: http://twitter.com/mencione
Michael Chanter
December 2, 2009How about this one – http://titter.com/redbilby
xethorn
December 3, 2009I don’t really like the design of hicksdesign, it’s pretty simple, already used on his website. It has no originality. 30 is also a super short list compared to the amount of creative background. Your list is good, I really enjoyed to see most of my fav’.
@xethorn
Romulus Olivier
December 3, 2009Take a look at http://www.twitter.com/romulusremo
David Contois
March 1, 2010Please take a look at twitter.com/dcontois
Bollicao
April 13, 2010Check my background please…It´s cool.