The Requisite End of Year Lists
• Time's The Top 10 of Everything of 2011: In 54 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months.
• Big Think's The Year in Ideas.
• Food & Wine's The Best Beer and Wine of 2011.
• Brand New's The Worst Identities of 2011, The Best.
• Co.Design's Favorite Branding Projects of 2011.
• Adweek's The 10 Best Commercials of 2011: The year's most impeccable craft and storytelling in advertising. The 30 Freakiests Ads of 2011: Van Damme to David Lynch, zombies to food phantasmagorias, the year's craziest spots. And lastly, The 20 Most-Shared Ads of 2011.
• Ad Age's 2011 Book of Tens: Ten 2011 Campaigns Creativity Loved, The Year's Social Media Blunders, Most Influential Marketers and More.
• Creative Review's Advertising Picks of the Year, Music Video Picks of the Year.
• Co.Design: 14 Of The Year's Best Ideas In Interface Design.
• The 99% Percent's Best of 2011: Our Most Popular Tips, Interviews & Think Pieces.
• The Best Architecture of 2011: Jonathan Glancey's choice for The Guardian. Frank Gehry completed his first Manhattan skyscraper and Mattel Toys launched Architect Barbie, but it was very much Zaha Hadid's year.
• Entertainment Weekly's The Best of Stage 2011.
• Wired's Game|Life The 20 Best Videogames of 2011. And NPR's Top 10.
• CreativeApplications.Net reports innovation and catalogues projects, tools and platforms relevant to the intersection of art, media and technology. They've selected the Best and Most Memorable Projects of 2011.
• The Year in Pictures: New York Times, BuzzFeed, The Big Picture (I, II, III), Reuters.
• The Atlantic's In Focus The Year in Volcanic Activity.
• The Creators Project: The Year in Legos, Best Music Videos, Best Animation & Motion Graphics, Best Interactive Installations.
• Flavorpill's The Best Debut Novels of 2011.
• New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2011.
• BookPage's 25 Best Book Jackets of 2011.
• Coverjunkie's Best Magazine Covers of 2011.
• Longform's Best of 2011.
• The Million's A Year in Reading.
• The 20 most popular Nieman Journalism Lab posts of 2011.
• World Go Boom: DJ Earworm Mashes up the United State of Pop 2011.
• PopWatch's The Year in Memes.
• Videogum's The Best Viral Videos Of 2011.
• Underwire's Best of 2011: Pop Culture’s Tastiest Bits.
• The Best of For Print Only 2011, Part I (January - June), Part II (July - December), Part III Posters.
• PBS' POV selects The Best Documentaries of 2011.
• Entertainment Weekly's The 25 Best Movie Trailers of 2011.
• 2011: The Cinescape:
• The New Yorker's Culture Desk Best 26 Films of 2011. (Yes, 26).
• Mashable's The 10 Craziest Kickstarter Projects of 2011.
• io9's Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011. Wired Science's Top Scientific Discoveries of 2011.
• My Modern Metropolis' Top Ten Illusions in 2011.
• The Year That Was: The Morning News gathered writers and thinkers around the world and asked them to sift through the past year of revolutions, deaths, discoveries, and breakthroughs to answer: What was the most important event of 2011?
• RIP Tech: Macworld's 10 products and services that died in 2011.
• The Week's Remembering Those Who Passed Away.
• If this list is not comprehensive enough for you check out Fast Company's The Best And Worst Of Everything In 2011: A Mega, Meta Mashup.
• 23 Bizarre Things Ceremonially Dropped on New Year’s Eve.
• JWT 10 Trends for 2012.
• CNN's Top Tech Trends for 2012.
• TrendWatching's 12 Consumer Trends for 2012.
• When 2012 starts around the World.
Updated on Tuesday, January 3, 2012:
2011 is now gone but the great lists keep coming:
• FontShop's Best Typefaces of 2011.
• The Dieline's Top 100 Package Designs of 2011.
• The Verge's The Best Tech Writing of 2011.
• Harvard Business Review's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011.
• The Best Board Games of 2011.
• Vimeo's 11 for '11.
• Information is Beautiful's The Top 21 Albums of 2011 from 120 Top 10 Lists.
• The Best of Open Culture 2011.
• Welcome 2012: New Year's Around the World.