The Requisite End-Of-Year Lists Continued
Continuing the end-of-year, end-of-decade list compilation started here, interspersed with some of the best creative work of the year.
• The Awesome Brain Pickings Best Of 2009.
• Discovered in the Arjan Writes music blog, here is MPHO:
• The Big Picture, Christmas 2009.
• The Decade In Words.
• The New York Times The Year In Culture Slideshow.
• Inception Trailer:
• Wired’s The 15 Most Influential Games Of The Decade: Portal is still my favorite.
• BBH Labs’ A Quick Glance At 10 Of Their Best Blog Posts.
• Milton Glaser’s Ten Things I’ve Learned: From 2001 but still relevant.
• DJ Earworm’s United States Of Pop 2009: Amazing. Do you recognize all the references?
• Ten Gadgets That Defined The Decade.
• LA Times’ Top 10 Moments In Social Media In 2009.
• The Impossible Cool: A fantastic blog curating incredible images that are the essence of the impossibly cool.
• The Dieline: Another gorgeous blog curating the best in package design.
• Netflix’s Top Ten Most Rented Movies.
• The Year In Picture Shows.
• Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos Of 2009: Including this.
• Fuel Your Creativity’s Best of 2009 In The Creative Industry.
• Danger Room’s Top Ten Stories From A World Gone Nuts.
• Epitaphs For Our Favorite Folded Magazines Of 2009.
• Honda’s Everything Ad: Let’s celebrate the brilliance of good editors.
• The Decade In Communications Technology.
• Charles Isherwood’s Best of 2009 Theater.
• Slate’s Troy Patterson Selects 26 Cultural Moments Of The Decade: From A to Z.
• Macworld’s Top Ten Tech Stories Of The Decade.
• Picturing The Past 10 Years.
• 2009 NYC Holiday Window Displays.
• New Scientist’s Favorite Picture Galleries: Featuring a gallery of snapshots from an imploding star.
• Macworld’s 2009 Game Hall Of Fame.
• The Pogie Awards For The Year’s Best Tech Ideas.
• Top 10 Documentaries of 2009.
• Best Of The Decade’s Architecture.
• Fimoculous’ Year In Review: A mega list of eccentric lists, including a list of the worst renderings.
• Top Ten Book Cover Designs.
• The Decades 14 Biggest Design Moments.
• Ads We Hate, The Year’s Worst Commercials.
• The Year For Creatives.
• The Best of Open Culture 2009.
• Flicker’s Your Best Shots of 2009, The Seasons.
• KCRW’s The Business: The Hollywood Year That Was [Podcast, iTunes Link]
And the predictions:
• JWT’s 100 To Watch in 2010.
• 50 Trends For 2010.
• 32 Of Our Most Anticipated 2010 Entertainments.
And lastly:
• Ringing The New Year With A Drink For Each Time Zone.