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1. Chris Pearson He’s the guy behind Thesis WP theme and I guess that says all – a really remarkable piece of work!
2. Nick La
   
   He runs WebDesignerWall blog and if you’re into web design this is the person you should follow.
3. Veerle Pieters
   She always inspires me for modern web art and gives me another perspective from female artists point of view.
4. John D Boardley
   He runs ILovetypography and actually learnt me that web typography isn’t as easy as I thought, but it is fun though=)
5. Jakob Nielsen
   He learnt me that if sth looks good it isn’t always the best though, usability is the way to go. A lot of people criticize his website design but I really love it – simple, usable, straightforward!
6. Magnus Jepson
   I love his soft minimalistic designs, his color schemes for his themes are remarkable.
7. Mark Forrester
   I fell in love with his theme, called Foreward Thinking – people don’t like it but I love it – it’s simple and straight forward, nothing more, nothing less.
8. Adii Pienaar
   More than his designs I love to follow his blog as it gives me lots of insights to commercial part of WordPress themes.
9. Matthew James Taylor
   SEO is his language and I learn a lot from him, he provides tips with simple cases and I just love it.
10. Darren Rowse
    If I want to design templates I need to know who am I designing them for so his blog posts give me so much usable tips for blogging I cannot emphasize how great Problogger is.

I would really encourage you to visit their blogs and follow what they’re doing as they have amazingly a lot to offer. I’m probably not the best WP theme designer out there but because of these people I’m better each new post they publish.