UX Collective

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Imagine trying to explain to someone from 2005 that you could ask your phone, Hows United doing? 10 blue links of Googlesearch I remember writing essays on topics such as World War II during 2005: type a query, click a link, read, return, repeat. No clicks, just answers.

Internet and Software Development

Design Week

JULY 20, 2025

He moved to Japan in 2005 to set up his own studio and became fascinated by the visual design history of his adopted home. A new exhibition aims to tell the story of Japanese graphic design in a broader and more inclusive way than ever before.

Graphic Design

We And The Color

OCTOBER 24, 2024

When overused, it feels like we’re back in 2005, playing around in Photoshop for the first time. From vibrant Instagram logos to soft pastel fades, gradients are back and bigger than ever. But let’s be real. Sometimes, they look like an accident. When used right, gradients can elevate a design.

Fonts

Inkbot Design

MARCH 6, 2025

AT&T went minimalist before it was cool, ditching its bell logo for a simple globe in 2005. The Competition: A Game of Logo Leapfrog Verizon's logo evolution hasn't happened in a vacuum. They've been playing a constant game of one-upmanship with AT&T and T-Mobile. Verizon's approach? Be the chameleon.

Fonts

Inkbot Design

JUNE 24, 2025

They allocate a healthy budget for paid advertising to drive traffic to a website that looks like it was built in 2005. It’s a cliché for a reason. And businesses still do it—every single day. The logo looks like a clipart competition entry. The message is a wall of text filled with jargon. This isn't just inefficient.

Marketing

Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Sergio Morales, Co-founder, Chevalier Morales In 2005, Sergio Morales co-founded Chevalier Morales alongside Stephan Chevalier. Through Futurestudio, she explores innovative materials and technologies, continuously pushing the boundaries of design to create environments that resonate well beyond the present.

Architecture

Abduzeedo

MAY 7, 2025

Since 2005, Big Cartel has helped creatives sell their work, from woodworkers to ceramicists and tapestry artists, resulting in billions in sales. How&How recently partnered with Big Cartel, the e-commerce platform built for independent artists and small businesses. The goal was a full repositioning and rebrand.

Branding

Azure Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2025

One of the early reviews that I did was about the Getty Villa project by Machado and Silvetti, which opened in 2005, during my first full year on the job. That shift began almost immediately after I arrived at the Los Angeles Times. In fact, the trajectory of the Getty’s architecture actually is a nice microcosm of how the city evolved.

Architecture

Inkbot Design

JUNE 27, 2025

The Refined Contender (2005): The Xbox 360 Sphere Four years is a long time in technology. Dissecting the Sphere and the “Nexus” The 2005 logo for the Xbox 360 is a masterclass in strategic brand evolution. They didn't. Your business's real origin, the struggles and the lucky breaks, is your best marketing material.

Branding

Colossal

JULY 31, 2025

Ava Fontaine, Lord of War (2005)” (2024), acrylic, molding paste, glitter, and oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches “And… and… c’mon, Nick, what do you expect? Megan, Bridesmaids (2011)” (2024), acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches “We have enough. You can stop now. To live happily ever after?

Gallery

Inkbot Design

JULY 4, 2025

Sale The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design Neumeier, Marty (Author) English (Publication Language) 208 Pages – 08/04/2005 (Publication Date) – New Riders (Publisher) $39.99 −$14.86 $25.13 .” The beautiful logo just made the disappointing experience more memorable.

Branding

Design Milk

JULY 18, 2025

The Amun Shea project in El Salvador was a school I founded in 2005 and eventually became part of my Master’s thesis at Dalhousie University. It uses an educational campus to define the edge of town and to catalyse local knowledge to stem the migration of rural people to the city.

Education

Typographica

JUNE 26, 2025

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Arts and Crafts

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Founded in 2005, Bedow's work moves beyond what is often lazily categorised as Scandinavian style, bringing together moments of hand-drawn details, design craft and artfulness to create simple, thoughtful, practical design. The work was carried out in partnership with Swedish design studio Bedow.

Marketing

Creative Boom

AUGUST 15, 2024

Though he became an art director working in UI/UX and moved to Moscow in 2005, the urge to draw stayed with Ilya, and as 2019 turned to 2020 and the pandemic hit, he became a full-time illustrator. In 2023, he was granted a talent visa by France and moved to Paris, where he now lives and works.

Illustration

Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Still featuring its "loveable, genderless" mascot, Snoo, it shows how the platform has grown up since 2005. This week, Reddit saw the launch of its new visual identity courtesy of Pentagram. Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website (just in case you need the Wikipedia description).

Typography

Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2024

Founded in 2005, ShareFile is a secure cloud collaboration tool that allows people to sign and share digital documents. Brooklyn-based brand studio Athletics has collaborated with content collaboration platform ShareFile to create a personable new brand identity that revolves around its users and play.

Animation

Creative Boom

AUGUST 11, 2024

Since 2005, it has delivered comedy shows and festivals to select cities across the UK. The London-based studio collaborates with renowned illustrator Hedof to create upbeat and engaging branding for the Comedy Garden Festival. 57 Festivals is a London-based company specialising in live comedy.

Branding

Creative Boom

MAY 17, 2023

Opening in 2005, it seats up to 1,500 people and plays host to around 400 performances each year. Philharmonie Luxembourg, known officially as the Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte Concert Hall, is a prestigious concert hall located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City.

Animation

Creative Boom

MAY 4, 2023

Rainbow Pony, 2020 © Sarah Graham Rainbow Popsicle, 2021 © Sarah Graham Kaisers Rock © Sarah Graham Sarah first became ill with a mixed episode of depression and psychosis in 2005, a year after losing her father. During her mania, Sarah started to experience many worrying symptoms of the condition.

Art

Logo Design Love

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This spoon inside a pen nib is timeless, crafted in 2005 by the gone-but-not-forgotten 300million. In 2005 Malcolm Grear Designers came up with this intelligent use of negative space for the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Excellent animated context on the Dutchscot website. While the bus service wasn’t a hit, the mark certainly was.

Consulting

Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

YouTube was launched in 2005 and experienced meteoric popularity, particularly among creative types, almost immediately after its inception. In the beginning, it was known as the Facebook Social Network, and its purpose was to provide users with a more intimate and personal setting in which they could connect with their friends and family.

Graphic Design

Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2022

Following graduation from the University of Brighton in graphic design, James got his first creative job in 2005 at Cog Design. In our exclusive interview, James walks us through his spectacular career and talks about the challenges facing big tech and what the future has to offer.

Agency

We And The Color

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Its regular style was Friedrich Althausen’s first type designing attempt, which he published in 2005 under a Creative-Commons-License. Vollkorn – Free Google Font. Vollkorn is a serif font family that takes inspiration from classic designs.

Fonts

Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Freight by Joshua Darden Originally drawn in 2005 by Joshua Darden and expanded several times over, the Freight collection of typefaces remains enduringly popular. The new font, designed by Jan Maack, comes in Text and Display families, each in five weights with Roman and italic styles.

Fonts

We And The Color

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

SwissMiss was founded in 2005 by Swiss graphic designer Tina Roth Eisenberg. Furthermore, it’s also an annual conference that helps creatives accelerate their work, connect with like-minded people, and implement their ideas. The platform features stories behind the careers of leading creatives. Header image by vnwayne fan via Unsplash.

Graphic Design

We And The Color

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Its regular style was Friedrich Althausen’s first type designing attempt, which has been published in 2005 under a Creative-Commons-License. Vollkorn – Free Google Font. Vollkorn is a serif font family based on a classic design.

Fonts

Graphic Design Junction

JUNE 11, 2021

Gain proficiency for certain realities about WordPress themes : First presented in 2005. It not only backs up your data but also secures your website from hackers. To make your site look great, WordPress has themes. Various new themes are presented each year. WordPress has around 6000 themes in its directory.

Theme

We And The Color

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

SwissMiss is a blog created by Swiss graphic designer Tina Roth Eisenberg in 2005. If you’re looking to stay up-to-date with the latest design trends, this is the perfect blog for you! The blog, which consists of content from creative professionals meant for other creatives, has gathered popularity over the years.

Graphic Design

UX Collective

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Back in 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia with a beloved tool called Fireworks. Is Figma in good hands? While this acquisition could be beneficial for designers, it’s the hope that kills you. Like many other giants, Adobe is not known for keeping its new toys sterile.

Adobe

UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

On the day of the acquisition announcement, Web Design Museum tweeted about Adobe’s purchase of Macromedia in 2005. Based on statements from Adobe, it is unclear whether they will continue to run and support XD and what features from Figma might eventually be integrated into it.

Adobe

Noupe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

If you are looking to have a career in this field, you definitely should read this amazing work that was published in 2005, but re-issued in 2012 by Adrian Shaughnessy. How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy. Image Source.

Graphic Design

UX Collective

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2005) We can now ask ourselves questions like “What is the kingfisher for?” This also signifies that in order to allow for new possibilities to arise in a design space, we need to re-examine our current assumptions. Blythe et al., link] Abigail, Van (2020). The Golden Ratio. The Cklixx [link] Grist. link] Bell, G., Making by making strange.

Inspiration

UX Collective

JANUARY 4, 2022

Although Nass & Brave (2005) claim that humans relate to VUIs in the same manner they relate to other humans, recent research shows they view these agents as unequal partners, with an emphasis on a master-servant relationship (Doyle et al., Design Guidelines for Hands-Free Speech Interaction. link] Nass, C., & Brave, S. The MIT Press.

Networking

Inkbot Design

JUNE 16, 2022

2005 – Google Analytics Introduced. The enhanced version of the tool was launched in 2005 and named Google Analytics. The site was supported by Web 2.0, once exceeding the number of 10 billion posted photos in 2015. The analytics tool helps website owners record conversions, analyse user behaviour, and track traffic.

Internet and Software Development

Just Creative

JULY 16, 2023

Originally created by Patrick Corrieri and Pascal Naidon in 2005, this software can be used for making drawings, using the more old-fashioned and traditional medium of drawings. This GNU software is practical and best suited for beginners looking to get acquainted with the world of animation.

Animation

Logo Smith

MAY 17, 2021

Wipeout Pure – 2005. Wipeout Pure – 2005. Depending on their performance, players receive credits after races, which can be used to increase speed, thrust, weapon power, shield strength, lateral stability, and brake force of a vehicle. WipEout Pure: the first adaptation for the PSP of the long-running Wipeout series.

Graphic