Design Milk

JANUARY 21, 2025

Here, Ai Weiweis exhibition What You See Is What You See showcases 12 massive toy brick works, made from either LEGO or WOMA blocks (the Chinese equivalent to LEGO, that can be distinguished by the lack of LEGO branding on the top of each peg).

Gallery

Creative Market

JULY 13, 2025

Piña Colada captures the quiet joy of warm days well spent, making it a powerful design element for brands and creators looking to celebrate presence and everyday joys. Lighter yellows in particular have been associated with openness, relaxation, and optimism (Clarke & Costall, 2008).

Color

We And The Color

APRIL 6, 2025

Let’s explore how real designers are leveraging this platform, turning passion projects into thriving product lines, and building brands on their own terms. Your brand isn’t just your products; it’s the entire experience, starting with the look and feel of your online presence. So, let’s go behind the scenes.

Production

Inkbot Design

JULY 1, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] The Fanta Logo History: What Every Rebrand Got Right & Wrong Most corporate rebrands are exercises in vanity, dressed up in marketing nonsense. It's that the brand wasn't born from a grand vision. That's brand equity. The name stuck.

Brand

Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

The creative industry is facing its most challenging period since the 2008 financial crisis. And I've started reaching out to brands that align with my style, rather than waiting for perfect briefs to come in." Image licensed via Adobe Stock Things are tough for many creatives right now. We share some of the ways they're fighting back.

Freelance

Inkbot Design

AUGUST 8, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] 10 Famous Failed Logo Redesigns: How Ego and Bad Strategy Cost Billions A new logo will not fix your broken business. It's a tiny visual shortcut connecting a customer's brain to every experience, product, and feeling associated with your brand.

Brand

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.

Brand

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. PhaidonPress.

Graphic Design

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

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. But for certain projects — portfolios, art installations, branded microsites — it could work beautifully.

Arts and Crafts

Moo

JULY 9, 2025

And for brands, a surprisingly sticky way to create community, build loyalty, and make marketing fun again. Read on to find out why people are so OBSESSED with Stickers, and how custom branded Stickers can give your business an edge. It was low-cost and high-visibility branding driven by community energy. And it worked.

Marketing

Creative Boom

JULY 7, 2025

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

Art

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

We look at Franklyn's new design refresh for the brand and the backstory behind it. 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. If you haven't heard of WeWork, here's a quick refresher.

Banners

Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2022

James Hurst, Head of Brand Design at Google. After 17 years in the profession, he landed the role of Google's head of brand design this April, and so far, it's been everything he ever wished for. Next, he went on to work for Emak Mafu in 2008 when the global recession hit. James Hurst, Head of Brand Design at Google.

Agency

Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2022

Since launching SDCO Partners in 2009, founders Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson have designed hundreds of brands worldwide – including names like LeCreuset and Soludos – but it's their work with industry-disrupting, women-owned businesses that drives their passion. Courtney: We started the business for reasons unrelated to the 2008 downturn.

Client

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Introduction to Brand Strategy by Alejandro Pascalis. Here's a great course for graphic or visual communication designers with a focus on developing brand identities and branding. It would also be useful for anyone starting their business or establishing their brand's strategic guidelines.

Self-employed

Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2022

With a diverse community of more than 150,000 freelance designers, 99designs by Vista matches clients with creatives across brand and logo design, packaging, web design and more. It makes for eye-opening reading, and it comes from a source you can very much trust.

Freelance

Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2024

Having graduated in fine arts in 2008, he now leads the digital arts course at Shandong University of Arts. Nanjiao Xi Nanjiao Xi currently lives in Shenzhen, China, and works at ByteDance, the company that developed TikTok, as a brand visual director. Work by Caver Zhang 3. Work by Laomo Wang 7.

Illustrator

Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

It's a career he carved out for himself after suffering the effects of burnout during his days of crafting logos and building brand identities. 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.

Artist

Graphic Design Junction

JULY 25, 2024

Contributions at Nordeus Visual Identity: Plays a crucial role in maintaining and evolving Nordeus’s brand across different platforms. Versatility: Adapts to various styles and projects, showcasing a broad range of skills from minimalistic to intricate designs.

Graphic Design

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The decline of interactions since the push for viral and video content has made me engage less with platforms," says brand and print designer Matt Lamont. I use all of the social media platforms and have done since my first Facebook forays in 2008," says Sarah J Coleman. So, how widespread are these experiences?

Media

Design Milk

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Elena Salmistraro graduated from the Politecnico in Milan with a degree in Industrial Design in 2008, and the following year opened her own firm. ” She works as a designer and artist for several brands, including Apple, Disney, Alessi, Bosa, Cappellini. Today, Elena Salmistraro is joining us today for Friday Five ! Favignana.

Art

Canny

JANUARY 24, 2022

Manufacturing and sustainability branding. Whilst these ideas can be part of sustainability branding , there’s got to be room for something more creative, and well, less boring. The Branding Brief Template. The Branding Brief Template. Playing it safe isn’t just limited to this sustainability branding though.

Manufacturing

Creative Boom

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On the one hand, you want to celebrate that a brand or company has been in business for several decades or even centuries. Our campaign combines Boyds' history and future in a really smart way," says Emily Huddell, SVP of brand development at Defy. "We How do you make a business founded in 1938 relevant today?

Sports

Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Re-evaluating Your Brand Identity We all know how important first impressions are. That little graphic symbol representing your brand is more powerful than you might think. Don't sweat it – many significant brands have undergone successful logo facelifts to stay relevant. Is Your Logo Design Up To Date? billion $1.9

Brand

Tuts Plus

AUGUST 8, 2020

In the 2008 American election, you'll notice that Barack Obama used typography as a powerful tool. The Gotham font has been used in branding, editorial design, posters, and political campaigns. Besides branding, the Gotham typeface has been used in the Obama Presidential Campaign of 2008 and the One World Trade Center tower. .

Fonts

Inkbot Design

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Brand Continuity: Establishing a Strong Connection Brand continuity is crucial in establishing a solid brand image and connection with the audience. It refers to consistently using branding elements across all materials and a business's marketing efforts. Let's explore the benefits of brand continuity in more detail.

Brand

Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Since its launch in 2008, independent entertainment specialist agency elevenfiftyfive has created some of the UK's most well-known film marketing work. Aries, Nick and the wider team know us well, and what they have created perfectly reflects who we are and where we are going."

Entertainment

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Originally established in 2008 as a boutique grocery store, Anton&Anton has now started to position itself as a soulful alternative to large supermarket chains. This necessitated a careful strategy to carve out a new market position that would enable Anton&Anton to thrive beyond the capital area, where brand recognition was minimal.

Brand

Just Creative

APRIL 27, 2020

The Creation of an Original Logo from Scratch course will explain the process of creating an original, recognizable, and modern logo step by step so that your brand has a great first impression. Their clients include prestigious brands such as Carrefour, TED Talks, Adobe, Panaria, CO-CO, and many others. Learn More.

Illustrator

Inkbot Design

JUNE 5, 2024

Mastering the Art of Branding Consultation So, let’s start with the basics. Branding consultation is about helping businesses develop a solid and unforgettable corporate identity. Nope, branding does way more than that. The Power of a Strong Brand Still not convinced that brand consultation is worth the investment?

Consulting

Abduzeedo

JUNE 23, 2021

Expo 2023 Buenos Aires Branding and Visual Identity. In November 2019 Stato ® delivered a proposal for the Expo 2023 Buenos Aires branding and visual identity contest. abduzeedo 06.23.21 The concept & theme of the event we worked on was science, innovation, art and creativity for human development.

Brand

Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

10 Amazing Personal Branding Examples for Design Inspiration When people hear the word ‘brand,' massive corporations like Nike or Ikea often come to mind. However, personal branding has become increasingly significant in the Internet age. We are all walking, talking brands – even if we don't realise it yet.

Brand

Under Consideration / Brand

JUNE 1, 2020

To further spread the product love to even more guests, it was time for Popeyes® to translate its Louisiana roots in a more modern approach by completely redesigning the brand's visual identity and restaurant image. and around the world after a collaborative redesign, in partnership with the design firms Brand Bureau and Linehouse.

Patterns

Canny

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Good examples of pizza branding can be hard to come by. Yet any business owner or founder knows the importance of perfecting their branding when it comes to attracting new customers – especially when there are so many pizza brands for people to choose from. Let’s tuck in.

Brand

UX Collective

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Brown, 2008) As discussed in one of the ‘Foundations of HCI’ lectures by our deemed instructor Sai Shruthi Chivukula, the design thinking process is not a lightning strike moment of a lone genius. This led to the creation of “zipperless-zipper” or Velcro brand hook and loop. 2008, June). Biomimicry, n.d) Design and Nature V.

Inspiration