Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

Since 2008, queues have formed along Northcote Road full of people eager for a slice of their twice-baked, slow-fermented biga dough pizzas. Breadstall's disruptive identity firmly places it in the subcategory of new-wave pizza restaurants emerging across the capital, but its bakery-style brand differentiates it even further.

Branding

Creative Market

JULY 13, 2025

Lighter yellows in particular have been associated with openness, relaxation, and optimism (Clarke & Costall, 2008). Psychologically, yellow is known to stimulate positivity and mental clarity.

Color

Creative Boom

JULY 1, 2025

Together with his co-founder, Leland Maschmeyer, he launched their acclaimed agency in 2008 with a mission that still holds true today: "Design is not what we make. This is only the second year that COLLINS House has been at Cannes Lions, but this is far from Brian's first rodeo. Design is what we make possible".

Arts and Crafts

Design Milk

JULY 3, 2025

The entryway sets the stage with Farrow & Ball’s Dimity 2008, a paint choice that exemplifies the designer’s nuanced approach to color as living material. Bouclé chairs anchor the living area with handwoven textures, while velvet cushions and linen wallpaper from Dedar create layered experiences.

Arts and Crafts

Design Milk

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ai Weiwei, “Water Lilies #3” 2023 (detail) Photo: David Behringer In the same room, a 13-foot-tall reproduction of Emanuel Leutzes Washington Crossing the Delaware has been modified to include Beijings National Stadium in the background a structure that Weiwei co-designed for the 2008 Olympics.

Gallery

We And The Color

APRIL 6, 2025

Ugmonk (Jeff Sheldon): From Passion Project to Lifestyle Brand Jeff Sheldon started Ugmonk back in 2008. Let’s look at some real-world examples of creatives who harnessed Shopify to build something special. These stories are 100% true and showcase the platform’s potential.

Production

Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

The creative industry is facing its most challenging period since the 2008 financial crisis. Image licensed via Adobe Stock Things are tough for many creatives right now. We share some of the ways they're fighting back. Let's not beat around the bush.

Freelance

Creative Boom

DECEMBER 18, 2024

JPA's involvement with this project stems from a longstanding design partnership with Cathay Pacific, dating back to 2008 when they collaborated on completely redesigning their wide-body cabins.

Gallery

UX Collective

MARCH 15, 2025

Its clean, geometric style made it the symbol of Obamas 2008 campaign , representing hope and progress. Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century totalitarian state by Steven Heller(2008) Iron Fists explores how totalitarian regimes weaponized graphic design to manipulate public opinion and consolidate power. This isnt unique to Futura.

Graphic Design

Inkbot Design

JULY 1, 2025

The 2008 “Splash” Logo: Chasing a Dated Trend Around 2008, a new primary logo started rolling out. The Digital Blur & Fragmentation: A Messy 21st Century (2000s) The new millennium arrived, and with it, a corporate panic about looking old. The soft, round letters were replaced with a more generic, slanted typeface.

Branding

Design You Trust

OCTOBER 26, 2024

In 2008, a young bartender named Jeffrey A. Meszaro was struck by the vibrant colors he discarded with every beer bottle he opened. He felt these bottle caps could become something unique but wasn’t sure what yet. Inspired to create a mosaic, Jeff dedicated the next six years to transforming discarded caps into a portrait of John Lennon.

Arts and Crafts

BP&O

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Dessert-centric power couple Natasha Case and Freya Estreller met in around 2008, soon forming a partnership in both life and business: Coolhaus, a range of ice creams and other frozen treats that looks to inspire other female and LGBT+ founders. For those thinking, ‘what, like Rem Koolhaas?’ – yes, you’re right.

Branding

Creative Boom

JULY 18, 2025

Launched in 2008 by Creative Folkestone, the Triennial has had a transformative effect on the town. Céline Condorelli's Dedication (To the Sea, To the Sea) photographed by Thierry Bal, 2025 © Nonetheless, for a hundred days, we welcome back the largest outdoor jamboree of contemporary art and the country's biggest commissioning project.

Artist

Creative Bloq

JULY 14, 2025

David Hockney standing in front of his iPad art, during his 2023 exhibition at Manchesters Aviva Studios, Bigger and Closer (Image credit: Aviva Studios/Justin Sutcliff) Picture this: its 2008, and David Hockney —arguably Britains most famous living painter—walks into an Apple Store and emerges with an iPad.

Art

Design Milk

JUNE 27, 2025

When the market crashed in 2008, and print magazines were among the hardest hit, Sacks decided it was time to pivot and approach this familiar arena from a new angle. She described interiors and interviewed the world’s top creatives, and poured over the countless images that made it into the magazine and the ones that didn’t with equal care.

Client

UX Collective

JULY 9, 2025

Rethinking web audio in the age of user-first design Dircksny.com | Way Back Machine web archive I recently had to track down a screenshot of a website from 2008 — Dircksny.com, a small agency where I landed my first real design job. For a fleeting moment, I remembered not just what the internet looked like in 2008, but what it felt like.

Arts and Crafts

Design Milk

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In 2008, Corn founded the Seattle-based studio fruitsuper with Joe Kent. “I knew that was exactly the path meant for me,” Corn says. “It It felt so all-encompassing, and it has allowed me the freedom to pursue many mediums, scales, and project types.”

Travel

Creative Boom

JULY 7, 2025

The economic crisis of 2008. She was telling me how bad it was getting out there—and asking if we could do anything about it. I sat back with a heavy sigh. How many times have we been here before? The global pandemic. And now, the looming shadow of AI—enticing business owners who want to cut costs and delay hiring.

Client

Moo

JULY 9, 2025

Stickers and the power of HOPE Street artist Shepard Fairey brought his bold graphic style to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign with the now-iconic HOPE design. Those little round custom Stickers helped Reddit grow from a scrappy startup to a cultural mainstay.

Marketing

Creative Boom

JULY 7, 2025

Between the 1960s and 2008, suffering high unemployment and homelessness, the Nishinari ward was regularly the scene of alcohol-fuelled riots. Since then, she's gone global with client briefs and her Room brand. Nishinari Riot Ale is Derailleur's signature tipple, paying homage to the district's difficult past.

Art

Creative Applications

JUNE 11, 2025

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Coding

Design You Trust

JUNE 12, 2025

Brooklyn-based artist Sung Hwa Kim was born in Seoul and holds a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston (2008) and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2012). His work explores the passage of time through the traditional Korean white porcelain jar, using it as a symbol of cyclical transitions and existential contemplation.

Art

Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2025

When he set up Hand Drawn Creative in 2008, 'mod atomic retro Americana' was the descriptor Neal used, so he felt naturally locked in on the pop-up book's style from the get-go. It helped that he had previously helped develop a visual identity for the Willis Wonderland Foundation, which is publishing the book.

Templates

Typographica

JUNE 26, 2025

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Arts and Crafts

UX Collective

JULY 1, 2025

Image AI Generated: Midjourney The 2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike reshaped media labor, and tech may be on the verge of a similar reckoning. Image Credit: Open AI The Strikes I stood across the street from a picket line in 2008. 2008 turned out to be the year that changed my life, though it didn’t feel like it at the time.

Entertainment

Creative Boom

JUNE 13, 2023

Founded in New York in 2008, it was a startup that pioneered the idea of renting flexible co-working spaces to freelancers and other startups. We're guessing, though, that the good people at Brooklyn-based creative studio Franklyn might have felt a little differently about their latest project.

Banners

Creative Boom

APRIL 16, 2024

Of all his paintings, though, Adam's favourite is a 2008 piece depicting characters from the Mega Man games. "I also did a 36"x36" painting from the game Contra that was essentially a giant movie poster design," he adds. "I I always strive to make my paintings as eye-catching as possible and strike that nostalgic chord in us."

Artist

Creative Boom

JANUARY 3, 2024

He graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2008 and the Royal College of Art in 2010. In 2016, he launched Nounou with Jae Huh, a Korea-based label producing various items, including clothing, graphic objects, rugs and dolls.

Graphic

Creative Applications

JUNE 24, 2025

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Education

Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2022

Since 2008, it's brought more than one million creative projects to life across the world and designers in its community have earned more than $400m USD on the platform to date. So quite simply, what it doesn't know about freelancing isn't worth knowing.

Freelance

Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2022

Courtney: We started the business for reasons unrelated to the 2008 downturn. Did the lessons of 2008/09 prepare you for the shock? It's been 13 years since you launched SDCO. Did the global economic crisis spur you to start your agency? The timing was right for both of us. Career-wise, we were ready to make the next move.

Client

Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

It was 2008, at the peak of the global economic crisis, when he decided to change from full-time employment to freelancing, spotting an opportunity to hire himself when no one else would. Originally a graphic designer, Darnell now helps business owners to harness their superpowers, hack their time and make a difference in the world.

Artist

Graphic Design Junction

JULY 25, 2024

Today we are featuring his 36 days of type / movies edition: A – American Psycho, 2000 B – Baby Driver, 2017 C – Cast Away, 200 D – Donnie Darko, 2001 E – E.T,

Graphic Design

Spoon Graphics

APRIL 4, 2022

We’re now back to 2008 levels, when Spoon Graphics was in its infancy. Well, just as I thought traffic was levelling off again after the -23% drop between 2019-2020, this past 12 months has seen the largest decline of all time, down another -31% on last year. I’m now seeing fewer daily visitors numbers than on Christmas Day of years gone by.

Graphic

Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2024

Having graduated in fine arts in 2008, he now leads the digital arts course at Shandong University of Arts. Caver has won a number of awards, including the Tallinn Illustrations Triennial Grand Award, the Frankfurt Global Illustration Awards and CCTV's 'China The Most Beautiful Illustration Book'. Work by Caver Zhang 3.

Illustration

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Jealous Gallery Founded in 2008, Jealous is an artist-led, fine-art print publisher and studio with a physical gallery space in east London. Prints published and printed by Jealous are in numerous museum collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum and the Whitworth in Manchester.

Print

Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2023

It was in 2008, and I think web design is a bit of a different field and not as specialised. "I think studying web design was pretty helpful for me getting my foot in the door at many design jobs," James explains. Being able to design and code was pretty attractive to employers.

Print