Best of 2008: A List of Design Lists
Our favorite collection of design-related lists
by matt sung|January 01, 2009
It's without a doubt that 2008 was an interesting year. With over 150 lists from more than 20 different categories, our year-end list of lists should keep you busy for a while.
- Top Ten Spec Ads of 2008 - Urlesqu
- The 10 worst ads of the season - Politico.com
- Top 5 Ads of the Year - Advertising Age
- Best architecture of 2008 - chicagotribune.com
- Paul Goldberger: Architecture’s Ten Best of 2008: The New Yorker
- Best of CH 2008: Top Five Buildings
- 50 Strange Buildings of the World | Village Of Joy
- The hottest hotels for 2009 - Times Online
- 15 Best Street Artworks of 2008 | Listicles
- The Year in Art 2008 - Part One | Tokyo Art Beat
- 6 Beautiful art books published in 2008
- Favourite Comics and Art Books of 2008 » Drawn!
- Best of Cool Hunting 2008: Top Five Art Shows
- Best of 2008: Top 25 Design & Architecture Blogs | Trends Update
- ReubenMiller : Alexa's Top 90 Design Weblogs
- The Best Design Blogs of 2008
- 2008 in Review: Mashable's 20 Most Popular Stories
- 25 fantastic design articles from 2008 | David Airey
- Best of TGIF Lists 2008: The Best Friday Ever
- The Best of Core77: Our Favorites from 2008!
- Inhabitat » Favorite Stories of 2008
- DesignNotes » 12 months of condensed DesignNotes in 2008
- Top 10 Blogs for the WordPress Community | Vandelay
- Holiday Books - 100 Notable Books of 2008 - NYTimes.com
- Best Illustrated Children’s Books 2008 - The New York Times
- The Top Ten Books - New York Magazine
- Signs of Life 2008: The Best Books We Read This Year :: Books Features
- Best books of 2008 | Goodreads
- Amazon.com: Best of 2008: Books
- PW's Best Books of the Year - Publishers Weekly
- Best Books of 2008 : NPR
- Apartment Therapy | Best Design Books of 2008: Let's Make Our Own List
- The Book Design Review - My Favorite Book Covers of 2008
- MoCo Loco's Top 10 Books of 2008
- Cool Hunting's Top Five Books of 2008
- Books review of the year 2008 | guardian.co.uk
- Best Books of 2008 - Barnes & Noble
- The Penguin Blog: Book Designs of the Year, 2008
- 17 Tips for Getting Through a Business Downturn - FreelanceSwitch
- HOW Design - 14 Ways to Brainstorm More Effectively
- Five Tips to Cope -- or Even Thrive -- Through Downturn - Advertising Age
- Best Colleges - US News and World Report
- Best Careers - US News and World Report
- Best Companies 2008 - FORTUNE Magazine's Top 100 Employers
- 2008: The Year in Style - 20 reasons to celebrate fashion
- Refinery29: Class of 2008 - models, 8, trends
- The Ten Best Dressed of 2008 With Anne Hathaway, Blake Lively, and ...
- Year in Review 2008: Parties, Fashion Shows, and Tom Wolfe on Hip-Hop
- The best fashion moments of 2008 | The Sun
- Worst of What Were They Thinking?! 2008 - omg! photos on Yahoo!
- Fug Girls: Ten Things We Learned From Celeb Fashion in 2008
- 10 Great Places to Find Graphic Design Jobs
- 7 Reasons Why You Should Pursue Your Own Projects - FreelanceSwitch
- 50+ Ways to Improve Your Productivity as a Freelancer - FreelanceSwitch
- 34 Sites for Freelance
- 2008 Design Trends
- Brand New: Brand New: Best & Worst 2008
- Apartment Therapy's Most Popular Roundups Best of 2008
- Wallpaper* Graduate Directory 2009
- 25 fantastic design articles from 2008 | David Airey
- 30+ Incredibly Beautiful Custom Designer Toys
- 50 Best T-Shirt Designs of 2008 | Abduzeedo
- Top 10 Magazine Covers - TIME
- Billboard Top 40 Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
- Design Museum Top 15 List - You the Designer
- BBC NEWS | Magazine Monitor | 100 Things we didn't know last year
- 50 Things We Know Now (We Didn't Know This Time Last Year): 2008 Edition
- 50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do | Marc and Angel Hack Life
- Best of Giz Explains 2008: Stuff You Absolutely Need to Know
- The Top 10 Everything of 2008 - TIME
- Best Of 2008: Most Popular Top 10's of 2008
- Royal Pingdom » The major incidents on the Internet in 2008
- The Buzzwords of 2008 - NYTimes.com
- Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2008 - Buzzfeed
- Trends That Actually Became Trends in 2008 - Buzzfeed
- Associated Press 2008 moments - Los Angeles Times
- Epicurious Predicts Top 10 Food Trends for 2009
- Fimoculous.com: 2008 End-Of-Year Lists
- 50 Ways to Improve Your Life 2009 (usnews.com)
- The List - What's In and Out for 2009 (washingtonpost.com)
- The Top 10 Green-Tech Breakthroughs of 2008 | Wired.com
- Inhabitat » Top Ten Green Transportation Trends of 2008
- Inhabitat » Top Ten Sustainable Style Stories of 2008
- The 2008 Eco-Matrix: Who's Hot, Who's Not in the World of Green : TreeHugger
- Eazy Cheezy: 50 Free Sites to Watch Movies and TV Online (Part 1)
- The year's best foreign films :: rogerebert.com
- The year in film 2008 | The A.V. Club
- Film - Movies ’08 - In the Big Picture, Big-Screen Hopes - NYTimes.com
- The Best Television Episodes Of 2008 | The A.V. Club
- The Best DVDs of 2008 | The A.V. Club
- YouTube's Best Of 2008: Top Ten (VIDEO)
- The best films of 2008... and there were a lot of them :: rogerebert.com
- The 10 best indie movies of 2008 - Beyond the Multiplex - Salon.com
- The 100 Best Movies of 2008 | 2008 Film Guide - Times Online
- The Best Viral Videos Of 2008: A Retrospective - Viral Video - Videogum
- Movies: The 50 Greatest Special Effects Shots In Cinema
- Top 50 movie special effects shots - Den of Geek
- Best Rock Songs of 2008 - Top New Songs - Esquire
- Accent Feed: 10 Most Innovative Concert Visuals '08
- Best of 2008 – Last.fm
- Best of 2008 | Fuse.tv
- 10 Best Overlooked Albums of 2008 | Spin Magazine Online
- The Best of 2008 : Rolling Stone
- The 100 Best Singles of 2008 : Rolling Stone
- Readers' Rock List: The 20 Best Music Videos of 2008 : Rolling Stone
- Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008 | Discover Magazine
- Best Astronomy Images of 2008 Talk in NYC - Boing Boing
- TOP TEN SPACE PHOTOS: Most Viewed of 2008
- 2008 in photographs (part 2 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com
- 2008 - The Year in Pictures - New York Times
- 2008's Best Contest Photos You Never Saw
- Environmental photographer of the year 2008 | Eguardian.co.uk
- Top 10 Election Photos - TIME
- Vanity Fair's Year in Pictures
- A photo resolution list for 2009
- Inventions: Ten Inventions That Freed Themselves By Killing Their Masters
- The Worst People Of 2008 - Videogum
- Lego: The Best Lego Stories of 2008
- Top 10 New Organisms of 2008
- New Colors Discovered by COLOURlovers
- 2008: The Year the Geeks Took Over | Cracked.com
- The Forbidden Planet » Richard’s Best Of Propaganda 2008
- Topless Robot - The 8 Most Awkward Berenstain Bears Books
- The Best Inventions of the Year - TIME's Best Inventions of 2008
- Top 10 Best Gadgets of 2008 - Popular Mechanics
- Feature: The Best Gizmodo Features of 2008
- Roundups: The Best Gadget Lists of 2008
- Bestmodo 2008: The Best iPhone Apps of 2008
- Best of 2008: The Most Popular Tech Articles and How-To's
- The best tech lists of 2008 | InfoWorld
- Just The Best Tech Lists of 2008 - PC World
- The 10 hottest tech products of 2008 | TechRadar UK
- The Best Of The Idea Awards: The Best, Weirdest, and Most Wonderful Gadget Designs of 2008
- Toxel.com » Top 75 Best Design Resources of 2008
- Best of 2008 - Graphic Design Tutorials | Design Shack
- 10 Steps to Improving Your Photoshop Skills - PSDTUTS
- Online Collaboration And Learning: The Best Resources of 2008 From MasterNewMedia
- The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008 - Photoshop Lady
- 25 Tutorials for Advanced Freelance Web Designers
- 10 SEO Techniques All Top Web Sites Should Use | Freelance Folder
- 70+ Most Useful Mashable Posts for Search Marketers and Developers
- Best Of 2008: Most Popular Free Mac Downloads of 2008
- Best Of 2008: Most Popular DIY Projects of 2008
- 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
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My favourite Typefaces of 2008 | i love typography
- 10 Amazing Typography Artists | Abduzeedo
- 30 Fonts That All Designers Must Know & Should Own
- Twenty Typefaces of 2008 | FontShop News
- IGN: Best of 2008 Awards
- Top 10 Games of 2008 - Wired
- 21 Upcoming Wii Games to Drool Over - from GamePro.com
- 10 Most Popular Flash Games of 2008 - Mochi Network
- 7 Best Video Game Trailers of 2008 :: Paste
- Top 10 most anticipated Xbox 360 games of 2008
- 9 Information Design Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer - PSDTUTS
- The 3 Components of Good Web Design - PSDTUTS
- 40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box | Smashing Magazine
- 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | Smashing Magazine
- Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : 20 signs you don’t want that web design project
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