2014 was a big year.
But I'm not referring to the failed merger of Publicis and Omnicom or even the best advertising campaigns of the year.
Your memory of 2014 won’t be defined by those things. Instead, you’ll remember the Ebola outbreak, Lavern Cox, Ferguson, LeBron’s return home, the World Cup, True Detective, missing flight MH370, and maybe even Alex from Target.
These and many other cultural and political moments shaped the year and will continue to be part of our conversations in 2015.
To commemorate these events, Beutler Ink created Here’s to 2014!, a graphic featuring 91 memorable moments. The poster is a follow-up to the 2013 edition, which featured Miley Cyrus, Prince George, and Pope Francis.
Check out the below graphic, and review the list of all the moments that made it into this year's illustration.
Moments included in the poster:
- The Guardians of the Galaxy
- The LEGO Movie
- Gone Girl
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Boyhood
- The Fault In Our Stars
- Interstellar
- Godzilla
- South Park mocks Lorde’s ubiquity
- Ellen’s Oscar selfie
- Lupita Nyong’o wins Oscar
- Taylor Swift has first platinum album of the year
- Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX ["Fancy"]
- Pharrell Williams
- New U2 album goes to 500 million iTunes accounts
- Meghan Trainor ["All About That Bass"]
- Sam Smith
- Nicki Minaj ["Anaconda"]
- Radiohead’s Thom Yorke releases $6 album on BitTorrent
- Health Goth style
- Basic Bitch style
- Normcore style
- The Simpsons turns 25
- True Detective
- The Walking Dead
- How I Met Your Mother series finale
- Pretty Little Liars 100th episode
- True Blood series finale
- Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon
- Last Week Tonight
- Laverne Cox becomes the first transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy and to appear on the cover of Time Magazine
- Game of Thrones Season Five
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey with Neil Degrasse Tyson
- Gilmore Girls released on Netflix
- Germany wins World Cup
- Seahawks win the Super Bowl
- LeBron James goes home to Cleveland
- Spurs win the NBA championship
- Winter Olympics in Sochi
- Derek Jeter retires
- Steve Ballmer becomes owner of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise
- Roger Goodell is criticized; Bill Simmons is censored
- Madison Bumgarner leads the San Francisco Giants to World Series victory
- LA Kings win the Stanley Cup
- ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
- Kim Kardashian’s Paper Magazine cover
- Jaden and Willow Smith transcend reality
- Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin "consciously uncouple"
- Hacked celebrity nudes leak on Reddit
- Ariana Grande is a diva
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie wed in secret ceremony
- Jay-Z is involved in elevator altercation with Solange
- George Clooney marries Amal Alamuddin
- Scottish independence referendum
- Two Supreme Court rulings bolster marriage equality
- GOP owns the midterms
- Nik Wallenda’s blindfold tightrope walk
- Polar vortex
- MH370 goes missing
- ISIS/ISIL
- Ebola outbreak
- Ferguson and Eric Garner protests
- Bring Back Our Girls
- Hong Kong protests
- Putin ferments unrest in Crimea
- iPhone 6
- #GamerGate
- Emojis are everywhere
- Verizon vs. FCC
- Uber vs. Lyft
- Google glass
- Apple Watch
- Newsweek’s "The Face Behind Bitcoin" story
- HBO Go slated to be released to the masses
- Alex from Target
- Apparently Kid
- Slender Man
- Too Many Cooks
- Big Hero 6
- The Broad City girls
- The Interview film is pulled from theaters
- Sarah Koenig from Serial Podcast
- RIP Robin Williams
- RIP Maya Angelou
- RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
- RIP Joan Rivers
- RIP Shirley Temple
- RIP Harold Ramis
- RIP Casey Kasem
- RIP James Garner
- RIP Flappy Bird
- Bonus easter egg: Bill Beutler, founder of Beutler Ink