September 23, 2009
100 Design-Related Blog Posts With Lists of 100 Things
Building on the online design community’s shining tradition of making utterly massive lists of supposedly invaluable resources and things, I give you:
100 Design-Related Blog Posts With Lists of 100 Things
- Top 100 Best Fonts of All Time
- 100 Inspiring Character Designs
- 100 Great Blog Logso
- 100 Great Inspirational Resources for Designers
- 100 Extraordinary Examples of Paper Art
- 100 of the Best Creative and Grunge Designs About (Hm… about…)
- 100 Wonderful Photo Effects Photoshop Tutorials
- 100 of the Best Inspirational Blog Designs
- 100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Designs
- 100 Amazing Free WordPress Themes for 2009 (And here we begin quite a few from Smashing Magazine…)
- 100 Beautiful Free Textures
- 100 Obscure and Remarkable CD Covers
- 100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers
- 100 Free High-Quality CSS/XHTML Templates
- 100 Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons and Buttons (Why would you ever need that many!)
- 100+ Free RSS Feed Icons (Honestly now…)
- 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009
- 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
- 100+ Resources for Web Developers
- 100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration
- 100 Gorgeous Designer Wallpapers
- 100+ Stunningly Beautiful and Brilliant Space Wallpapers
- 100 Crazy Skateboard Designs
- 100 Websites You Should Know and Use (This isn’t really design-specific, but I would actually use it.)
- 100 Websites with Outstanding Artistic Design
- 100 (Really) Creative Business Cards (You know… at this rate Rockport Publishing could go out of biz.)
- 100 Great Free and Open Source Tools and Applications for Web Developers
- Top 100 User-Centered Blogs
- 100 Outstanding Login Forms
- 100 Sources of Design Inspiration
- 100 Greatest Movie Posters of All Time (Technically not a blog post, but still of a designerly ilk)
- 100 Exceptional Free Paper Models and Toys
- 100 Amazing Futuristic Design Concepts We Wish Were Real
- Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites (Also not really about design, but it’s stuff that list-junkie designers care about.)
- 100+ Massive CSS Toolbox (It’s massive!)
- 100 Greatest Abstract and Grunge Fonts
- Inspiration Overload: 100 CSS Galleries You Need to Check Out (Okay, does this make this entry extra-super-meta?)
- 100 Tips About All Adobe CS4 Applications
- 100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns
- 100 Design Book Covers
- 100 (Non-Design) Blogs That Every Web Designer Should Read
- 100 Free, Essential Web Tools for Digital Artists
- 100+ Artworks from the Top 20 Digital Artists in Europe
- Over 500 Layout Design Tutorials
- See above.
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- See above. (I’m such a cheater! Ho ho ho.)
- 760+ Photoshop Tutorials for Web and Graphic Designers (HOLY COW.)
- So this means
- I can take up
- all these
- spaces.
- I should have taken the opportunity to write a Haiku.
- Oh well.
- 100 Artworks from the Top Digital Artists in Asia
- The 100 Most Funny and Unusual 404 Error Pages
- 100+ High-Quality Hand-Picked Icon Sets
- 100 + 1 FREE Photo/Image Galleries (AJAX, Flash, PHP)
- 100 Essential Mac Applications (We like Macs. We do we do we do-oooo.)
- 100 Killer Web Accessibility Resources: Blogs, Forums and Tutorials
- 100+ Funny Photos Taken At Unusual Angle [Humor]
- 100 Best Sites to Find Tutorials!
- 100 Amazing Design Blogs To Subscribe To
- 99 Resources for Web 2.0 Design (I think 99 is game, considering there were some 101′s up there.)
- 100+ Free Vector Files
- 100 Most Creative Business Cards
- Business Card Design: 100+ Creative Examples, Useful Tutorials and Templates
- 100 Typography Resources for Professional Designers
- 100+ Free Seamless Vector Patterns Ideal for Web Design and Print Work
- 100+ Best Web Galleries Around for Your Inspiration (This is actually different from the one above.)
- 100 Free Christmas Design Resources
- 99 Kick-Ass Websites for Your Inspiration
- 100 Excellent iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers
- 100 Must-See Art Blogs (of Every Form)
- 100+ Elegant and Artistic Wallpapers
- 100 Ideas to Spark You Into Creative Action
- 100.000+ Free Fonts Mega Compilation (This alone would push me over the 100 line, but I’ll be nice and make it only count for one.)
- 100+ Resources and Inspiration for Hand Drawn Design
- The 100 Hottest Business Card Designs (another one!)
- 100 Unused Logos and What They Reveal About My Design Inclinations
- 100 Cereal Box Covers
- 100 Examples of Japanese Municipal Flags
- Google Maps: 100+ Best Tools and Mashups
- 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images
- 100 Design Articles to Keep You Motivated
- 100+ Incredible Twitter Backgrounds
- 100 Extremely Creative Twitter Avatars
- 100 of the Best Designs Around!
- 100+ Best Available Services for PSD to HTML Conversion (I feel dirty for even including this.)
- The Definitive Top 100 Graphic Design Companies
- 100+ Grunge Textures Collection
- 100+ Free HTML Email Newsletter Templates (This makes me feel dirty too…)
- 125+ Ultimate Roundup of Illustrator Tutorials
- 100 Web Designers to Follow on Twitter
- The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008
- 100+ Minimal and Typographic Package Designs
- 100 Most Popular Books About Graphic Design
- 100+ Vectors: Mega Vector Mix Collection
- 100 Fresh Logo Designs for Design Inspiration
I could go on, but then I’d have to stop at another nice round number like 1000. So I think I’d better not, plus I really should be going to sleep because I have work tomorrow.
Well, to end on a thoughtful note, here’s a possible reason that there are so darn many of these:
Thanks for mentioning chethstudios, tweeted this post.. good luck with the blog traffic.
and here:
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_details.asp?individual_id=151576
Thanks!
Great site!
I feel like this should be on Digg.
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wow, i can savor this post for months on end
if by “savor” you mean “be horrified at” =)
Now you just need to compile “A list of 100 lists of 100 lists of … of 100 things,” with the title containing “100″ 100 times. The total number of things would be googolplex squared, or 1 followed by 200 zeros.
And then: a list of 100^^100 things, where ^^ is the Knuth double-arrow operator.