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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Oct 22, 2009
frankly I don’t find @smashingmag’s background all that terrific. I expected something more interesting than a few branches and a couple clouds.
Oct 22, 2009
Wow! Nice ones! I definitely got to design new layout for my twitter page. Thank you for inspiration!
Oct 22, 2009
Check this one
http://twitter.com/julienrenvoye
Oct 22, 2009
here’s mine:
http://twitter.com/nezua
and
http://twitter.com/XOLAGRAFIK
Oct 22, 2009
These are great! I was trying to think of what I would do for mine. Now I have some great inspiration!
Oct 22, 2009
Those are all cool, but you forgot one! http://twitter.com/phil_franks
Oct 22, 2009
Thanks for including me on this list!
Oct 22, 2009
smashinmag is default background on twitter
Oct 22, 2009
http://twitter.com/w3bdesign
Oct 22, 2009
thumbs up or thumbs down on my illustrated background? http://twitter.com/shanesnow
Oct 22, 2009
I’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
Oct 22, 2009
What about: http://twitter.com/iconfinder ?
Oct 22, 2009
I’m disappointed not to see mine (http://twitter.com/nwjerseyliz) as I think @HughBriss did an excellent job.
Oct 22, 2009
I appreciate the @shirtpizza mention – thanks Henry!
Oct 22, 2009
Very nice collection Henry! I keep wanting to spruce up my @designbumped background but I just haven’t gotten around to it!
Oct 22, 2009
@John Campbell: Same here. I have been neglecting our twitter background forever.
Oct 22, 2009
Where’s mine? http://twitter.com/napwarden
Nice list, but Smashing is a default:(
Oct 22, 2009
for twitter background have a look at mine: http://twitter.com/istudorsorin
Oct 23, 2009
My Fav background at the moment is @gentingcasino http://twitter.com/gentingcasino
Oct 24, 2009
twitter.com/FreestyleMVT and twitter.com/AdriensAne have illustrated elements..
Oct 24, 2009
All look rubbish on a 1024×768 resolution!
Oct 24, 2009
what about mine: http://twitter.com/inspirebit
Oct 25, 2009
Very useful post to take many different ideas.
& what about mine: http://twitter.com/idealhut
Oct 26, 2009
Good Job
Not bad : http://twitter.com/brin_de_web
Oct 26, 2009
Nice collection
Here’s mine http://twitter.com/lipelip
Oct 26, 2009
Nice ones!!! Here is mine: http://twitter.com/Laplanted
Oct 30, 2009
@KRisColvin’s “illustrated” background is a tiled, seamless graphic from istockphoto. It’s been my bg for almost 2 years.
@ericablonde
Nov 2, 2009
I love how everyone is putting up their own haha..Mikebithell’s is sick!
Nov 3, 2009
Mine: http://twitter.com/namln. It’s not beautiful or great, but I really like it.
Anyway, thanks for this post.
Nov 3, 2009
I like my twitter background too http://twitter.com/inogando
Nov 4, 2009
Love @canvascubed … awesome stuff!
great collection thanks …
mine is http://twitter.com/conceptn_design
Nov 4, 2009
Check this guy out… He’s good!
http://www.twitter.com/dancaina
Nov 4, 2009
Take a look at http://www.twitter.com/viborc and http://www.twitter.com/adebak – they are Twitter backgrounds optimized for different screen resolutions
Nov 16, 2009
Jeeez 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? 
Nov 16, 2009
check out mine!
http://www.twitter.com/nickbrookfield
Nov 19, 2009
Check out mine too!! @pixmaniaco
Nov 23, 2009
I would add this one to the list http://www.twitter.com/campleaders
Nov 30, 2009
birds in suits anyone? http://twitter.com/EmilyHaggar
Dec 2, 2009
Good job!
What about: http://twitter.com/mencione
Dec 2, 2009
How about this one – http://titter.com/redbilby
Dec 3, 2009
I 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
Dec 3, 2009
Take a look at http://www.twitter.com/romulusremo
Mar 1, 2010
Please take a look at twitter.com/dcontois
Apr 13, 2010
Check my background please…It´s cool.