Smashing Magazine’s 2nd Anniversary

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It happened again. Today, Smashing Magazine celebrates its second birthday. We are two years old now and we are proud of what we have achieved over these years. To celebrate our anniversary, we could do any number of things. For instance, we could organize a huge giveaway—as we did one year ago—but, of course, bigger and more overwhelming. However, we won’t do that; after all, we’re giving away stuff every week and we have many contests where our readers can win truly smashing prizes. (New contests are already on their way.)

Instead, we could share some insight about the highlights of Smashing Magazine over the last 12 months: an exploding number of page views, hundreds of thousands of backlinks, numerous testimonials and rewarding ad revenues. But we would probably sound like show-offs and we can’t afford to do that; after all, we have only published 301 posts so far.

Another possibility would be to discuss our plans for the future. What’s happening behind the scenes? What’s in the works? We could even share some top-secret information about the planned Smashing Book Series or new Smashing Forum. However, we won’t do that, because nobody can predict how successful those will really be.

Hence, the only remaining thing for us—Vitaly, Sven, the writers and other creative, hard-working minds of the Smashing Magazine team—to do is express our sincere gratitude to each of our readers for an absolutely smashing year. Without you—each and every one of you—our small magazine could not exist and definitely could not become what it has become today.

Comment and Win an Exclusive Poster!

Still, we do have a small surprise for you: a handful of exclusive Smashing Magazine posters, designed by the well-known, talented artist James White. You can preview the poster here or read the Making Of.

We are giving away 8 exclusive printed Smashing Anniversary posters, shining like gold in A3 format. Only 11 posters have been printed worldwide. If you want to win one of them, just write some kind words and congratulations in a comment to this post.

The winners will be determined randomly among all valid comments (spam and ad links do not count). Don’t forget to provide a valid email address in the input field, otherwise we won’t be able to notify you.

Thank you, folks! We really appreciate your support.

(al)

Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books.

  1. 1701

    hey, I want one!

    Happy Birthday Smashing :D

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  2. 1702

    Congratulations! Your site has become one of my favorite resources, and I visit almost every day — keep up the good work!

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  3. 1703

    Grats! Excellent work…I wouldn’t mind that poster being in my office room! Best refreshing website that just keeps on giving.

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  4. 1704

    Funny how many people post comments when there’s something to win!
    How understandable though, such a great poster!

    Vive Smashing Magazine! Keep up the good work, truly inspiring website!

    CHEERS!

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  5. 1705

    congratulations!

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  6. 1706

    Swapnil Ghorpade

    September 15th, 2008 8:36 am

    Congratulations guys !!!

    2 smashing years of our beatiful frienship

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  7. 1707

    Well done guys. You really have pulled out all the stops in your articles. Whether they are relevant or not, they always make for a good read. Your site has helped me ALOT in my work too. I have found some great ideas and tips that really boost my designs.

    I really appreciate the effort that has been put into this mag.

    Cheers Smashing, all the very best to the future.

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  8. 1708

    Congratulations ! Happy birthday for Smashing mag’ ! :D

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  9. 1709

    Congratulations!
    I really hope you guys love what you do, because it’s always interesting to see what will be featured on this site.
    It’s always top-notch quality and good technique. You can spend hours browsing through Smashing Magazine’s pages, and none of that will be wasted.
    Keep up the good work, all of us definitely appreciate it.

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  10. 1710

    salut fellas

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  11. 1711

    Martiniano Sienra

    September 15th, 2008 11:18 am

    congratulations!!! The best site in the web!

    Keep it up!

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  12. 1712

    Pourvu que ça dure !

    parap

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  13. 1713

    A very special congrats to smashing!

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  14. 1714

    Congratulations! This is truly a wonderful website; full of extremely useful tips, fun contests, and amazing collections of wallpapers/icons/etc.

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  15. 1715

    I am a true fan of the website. I forwarded over the past 2 years lots of the articles here to my friends.
    Thanks a lot for the amazing and important job. Keep it up! :~)

    Shlomi

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  16. 1716

    Happy Birthday!

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  17. 1717

    ***************Hope I can win this poster!!!

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  18. 1718

    let’s hope the terrible 2′s are as smashing as everyone says!

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  19. 1719

    SMASH-TASTIC once again. Great job James dig the poster.

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  20. 1720

    Smashing Magazine has been an undisputed first and best website to learn and have a glance to a beautiful world of web and design. The efforts you have been putting behind your website and giving away the wisdom without any conditions is just awesome. Winning poster or not but I am a fan forever for your website.

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  21. 1721

    Cheers from France! Good job!

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  22. 1722

    congrats!!!

    and thank you for your hard work!

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  23. 1723

    Congratulations! Smashing Magazine is one of my favourite places in WWWeb. Lots of useful resources, lots of information… Good job! Thank u, guys!

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  24. 1724

    Congratulation and Happy Birthday to Smashing Magazine! The best design blog ever! Keep on ‘SMASHING’ and feed us with all the great design related posting…congrate!

    Gossh…I love that poster! Amazing work by James White! Can I have one of those eleven posters you have, here in Malaysia? :D

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  25. 1725

    Smashing Magazine, thank you for the great, smashing content you produce. It rocks.

    Happy Birthday!

    Congratulations… :)

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  26. 1726

    Congratulations (or felicidades in spanish). thank you for your hard and very good work!

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  27. 1727

    Fantastic work guys. One of the most valuable resources on the web – always teeming with fresh, eye opening content and original design.

    Here’s to a continuing prosperous future!

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  28. 1728

    Congratulations Smashing Magazine! I can’t believe that it has been 2 years already!

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  29. 1729

    Abdulsalam Alasaadi

    September 17th, 2008 11:09 pm

    It has been a wonderful two years. Thank you all for your efforts and keep it up.

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  30. 1730

    What a wonderful 2 years. congrats

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  31. 1731

    What a fantabulous 2 years, and Smashing continue to lead the pack! I wonder if this is a record for comments too?

    Great team-up with James White, his designs are great and I hope he does album art for the next Daft Punk album.

    Congratology!

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  32. 1732

    Happy birthday !
    Great work and keep up the good work !

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  33. 1733

    Thanks for the 2 SMASHING years you guys gave me …….

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  34. 1734

    gratz and thank you, I have been learning a lot here in this 2 years

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  35. 1735

    Smashing,
    I’m glad i’ve met you…..you really changed my life, you opend my eyes
    every post you do it again

    Really thanks!!

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  36. 1736

    Congratulations

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  37. 1737

    Congratulations on 2 wonderful years!!!

    I’ve been visiting your site frequently for about a year now and I absolutely love it. You guys have provided me (and millions of others) with a lot of inspiration and resources and I can’t really thank you enough.

    Here’s to many more!

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  38. 1738

    Great work done

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  39. 1739

    Awesome. Keep up the good work!

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  40. 1740

    smashingmagazine.com is one of my “MUST CLICK SITE”. thanx for all inspiration you share

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  41. 1741

    HAPPY belated ANNIVERSARY!!!……may Smashingmagazine go on smashing FOREVER!!!!
    Thanks for all the good posts! You guys rock!!!! Keep SMASHING!!!

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  42. 1742

    very nice magazine and that poster would fit our office :)

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  43. 1743

    I would love to smash & grab that poster, in that order.

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  44. 1744

    Fantastic! I’ve only began reading recently, but this site has been a great inspiration to me.

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  45. 1745

    One of the best site for graphic design inspiration! Congrats!

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  46. 1746

    Congratulations indeed.
    Thanks for the morning read.

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  47. 1747

    holy crap i won.

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  48. 1748

    Very useful resources, amazing poster!

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  49. 1749

    Hi All there in Smashing magazine

    I wish you all the best for the success, initiallly like the other guys that I thought this wonderful website is running for years and years. Eventually I came to know the day its started. anyway well done, gr8 job keep it up!

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  50. 1750

    Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz

    October 11th, 2008 2:09 pm

    Thank you, guys! The winners have already received the posters. Here they are:

    212
    Rohit Arondekar
    1477
    kyle steed
    735
    Enops
    520
    Colin
    440
    Stradiwari
    1393
    Marie Sturges
    55
    Nouman Saleem
    936
    Justin Floyd

    Congratulations!

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  51. 1751

    Mantab Gan Posternya ^o~; Congratulation..

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  52. 1752

    Awesome poster. I’d love a tutorial on creating it.

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  53. 1753

    Congratulations on your 4th Anniversary and this impressively powerful poster. Love it so very much!

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