If the last decade has taught us anything, it’s how quickly news and the biggest stories of the day can fade into the ether. Content is king, baby, and our relentless media cycle must be continuously fed. Baseball strike? Amazon unions? Zuck selfies from the metaverse? Choco Tacos going the way of the dinosaurs?

Do you remember when Wordle scores were all over your Twitter? Do you even remember Wordle?

That’s the one thing we love about our annual Top 100. It’s a document of the biggest stories and design projects of the last 365 days, a perfect encapsulation of the year that was. We published over 1,700 news items, interviews, designer features, collections, and more—even we can’t always keep up with the deluge of packaging.