Design galleries showcase well designed websites, which doesn’t mean that they need to be well designed themselves right? Well of course they should, but with the explosion of design galleries there are some pretty terrible looking ones.

I decided to find the best looking design galleries. Remember, this doesn’t mean they are the best design gallery … they may not update often enough, or have enough features to make them useful, but they sure do look good.

Vandelay Designs recently posted a ranking of the top 80 CSS galleries which I used as my source list.

Without further ado here is my list of the 12 best looking design galleries…

12. Plastic Pilots

http://www.plasticpilots.com/

11. CSS Bloom

http://www.cssbloom.com/

10. CSS Tux

http://www.csstux.com/

9. Design Flavr

http://www.designflavr.com/

8. The Best Designs

http://www.thebestdesigns.com/

7. Unmatched Style

http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/

6. Stylegala

http://www.stylegala.com/

5. W3C Sites

http://www.w3csites.com/

4. Design Snack

http://www.designsnack.com/

3. CSS Artillery

http://www.cssartillery.com/

2. Styleboost

http://styleboost.com/

1. The Horizontal Way

http://www.thehorizontalway.com/

I’m sure you all disagree, so let me hear it …