Our List of Design Lists from 2009
A collection of top lists from around the web
Although 2009 was a year that many would like to forget, there were quite a few ups to go with the downs. We've collected over 100 lists from more than a dozen different categories to sum up some of the highlights from 2009 (and the decade).
- Architects Directory 2009 - Wallpaper* Magazine
- The Best New Buildings of the Decade - Curbed NY
- Best of the decade: Architecture - The Washington Post
- 50 of the world's best design blogs - Times Online
- The Top 50 SEO Blogs To Watch in 2010
- The Best of Design Notes in 2009
- Smashing Highlights 2009 - Smashing Magazine
- The Book Design Review - favorite book covers of 2009
- Best books of 2009 - Good Reads
- Most Collectible Books of the Decade (2000-2009) - Abe Books
- The Best Art Books of 2009 - The Daily Beast
- The Best Design and Architecture Books of 2009 - Fast Company
- Eulogizing the Fallen: Epitaphs For Our Favorite Folded Mags of 2009 - Flavorpill
- Best Magazine Covers of 2009 - COLOURlovers
- Best of the year (2009): Jason Cobley’s selection - The Forbidden Planet International
- The best comics of the ’00s - The A.V. Club
- Fashion forecasts for 2010 - latimes.com
- The 10 Best Fashion Designers of the Decade (2000-2009) - Paste
- The 25 Coolest Sneaker Designs of 2009 - Business Week
- Our Fiercest and Finest Posts of 2009 - Refinery29
- Fall 2009 Trend Reports - Style.com
- Pre-fall 2010 - Style.com
- The Best Cookbooks of 2009 - Epicurious.com
- Top 10 Toxic Foods We Love To Eat - toptenz.com
- Top 50 Recipes of 2009 - Food Network
- The Best and Worst of 2009: The Year in Food, Food Fights, and Future Food - Treehugger
- Eater National: Experts Make Headline Predictions For 2010
- The Decade in Food - GOOD
- The Decade in Design - GOOD
- The year in design, 2009 - idsgn
- Joey Roth's 2009 Design Top 5 - Moco Loco
- Jean Snow's 2009 Design Top 5 - Moco Loco
- 51 New Year resolutions for graphic and web designers - Graphic Design Blender
- Best of CH 2009: Top Five Design Innovations - Cool Hunting
- 10 most notable logos of 2009 - David Airey
- The Best and Worst Identities of 2009 - Brand New
- Year in Review: 2009 - Tokyo Art Beat
- The Decade's 14 Biggest Design Moments - Fast Company
- 100 Things we didn't know last year - BBC NEWS | Magazine Monitor
- The Noughtie List: the 2000s in Review - kottke.org
- Top 10 news stories of the decade - cnet.com
- Top 100 Stories of 2009 | DISCOVER Magazine
- Deaths, Obits of 2009 - Sphere News
- 2009 As Seen Through Twitter Hashtags - Mashable
- Top 10 News Headlines of 2009 - Current
- The Wish List: 7 Things We Hope Will Come True in 2010 - GigaOM
- Documenting the Decade - NYTimes
- The Great Best of 2009 Recap - Best of 2009 - Lifehacker
- The top green stories of the ‘00s | Grist
- Top Green Architecture Stories of 2009 - Inhabitat
- The Green Design 100 - TIME
- The Top Ten Viral Videos Of 2009 (Are Mostly Music Videos)
- The best and worst films of 2009 - CNN.com
- Movie posters of the decade - theauteurs.com
- Top Movies Visual Effects of 2009 - Top 10 VFX Scenes of 2009 - Popular Mechanics
- Top Viral Videos of 2009 - Current
- TV Critic's Call: Here Are The Decade's 10 Best Series - Huffington Post
- Best of 2009 - lala.com
- The 50 Best Albums of the Decade (2000-2009) - Paste Magazine
- The 25 Best Albums of 2009 : Rolling Stone
- Top 40 of 2009 - Fuse
- The 2000s Album Art Covers - Sleevage
- Best of 2009 – Last.fm
- Vimeo's 25 favorite videos of 2009
- Meltdowns and Blowups: The Decade's 50 Wildest Rock & Roll Moments - Rolling Stone
- The Best Roundups of the Best Photos of 2009 - Photojojo
- 2009 in photos - boston.com
- 2009: Gawker's Year in Pictures
- Ten Great Photographs, 2009 - The New Yorker
- Sport: Tom Jenkins's pictures of the decade - The Guardian
- Slideshow: Vulture’s 20 Greatest Slideshows of 2009 - Vulture
- The Top 10 weirdest moments of 2009 - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com
- The Worst Photoshop Disasters of the Decade - Abduzeedo
- The 10 Best Internet Memes of the Decade - Paste
- The Worst People Of 2009 - Videogum
- The Best People Of 2009 - Videogum
- The 30 Freakiest Ads of 2009 - adfreak
- The 50 Funniest Headlines Of 2009 - Buzzfeed
- Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2009 - Wired Science
- Ten gadgets that defined the decade - Engadget
- The 50 Worst Gadgets of the Decade - worstmodo - Gizmodo
- 69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009 - SmashingApps
- The Best iPhone Apps Of 2009 (Appvee Edition) - Techcrunch
- CNET's top 10 news stories of the decade
- Ten Years of Blackberry - Engadget
- 2009 Best Inventions of the Year - Video - TIME
- How To Guides: The Best of 2009 - Gizmodo
- Best Photoshop Website Layout Tutorials of 2009 | Vandelay Design Blog
- The Top 50 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 - Six Revisions
- The 20 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 - creativefan
- Most Popular Photography Hacks of 2009 - Gizmodo
- Most Popular DIY Projects of 2009 - lifehacker
- Best of CSS Design 2009 - WebDesignerWall
- 2009 - Sites of the Year - Abduzeedo
- The Top Five of 2009 - The Pixel Awards
- IGN: Best of 2009 Awards
- Video Game News - Top 25 Games of the Decade (2000-2009) - GameZone
- Best iPod Touch and iPhone Games: 2009 Buyer's Guide - touchArcade
- Top 15 Gaming Breakthroughs in the Aughts - Popular Mechanics
Check out last year's list from 2008
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