In just a matter of days our glasses will be full of cheap Brut Cava, the countdown to midnight will begin and we’ll drunkenly sing along to Old Lang Syne as we welcome in a new year, a new decade and the start of 2010. Looking back 10 years I regale my girlfriend to where it all began where I, a mere design student, started the long road to design stardom, stardom which still avoids me of course but the start of a career that sees a lot of change and evolution in the design industry. Print is in decline, web has been a rollercoaster of growth and decline but most amazingly my mother gets her first computer and starts blogging (no you can’t have a link she’ll kill me).
Good took a look back at the last decade in design and highlighted the most significant moments. We chose are favourites below but please do click through and read the entire post as it’s really worth the read.
It will also be great to hear your achievements from the last decade, whether you’re new to the game or you’re an old skool designer make sure you regale us below in the comments.
2000
Tech stocks plummet, signaling the official burst of the dot-com bubble. Thousands of newly-minted web designers are laid off. San Francisco’s cafes swell with unemployed creatives paying inflated rents.
2001
Apple’s first retail store opens. Steve Jobs announces the first-generation iPod, which can hold 512 MB of music. It is available only in white.
2002
The stop-motion Lego animation of the White Stripes’ video Fell in Love with a Girl by Michel Gondry heralds a new generation of video and commercial auteurs who bring their specific aesthetic to feature films (and Criteron Collection DVD sets).
2003
Jeffrey Zeldman’s book Designing with Web Standards transforms the way that web developers interact with code, calling for universal accessibility across browsers.
2004
The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is launched by Ogilvy & Mather, featuring self-esteem messaging for young girls, an attack on glossy magazines, and imagery of real women shot by Rankin.
2005
The One Laptop Per Child project announced by Nicholas Negroponte. The lime-green laptop is later designed by Yves Béhar.
2006
The Wii gaming console is launched by Nintendo, forever transforming the way we interact with games. We never need to go outside again.
2007
The 2012 London Olympic logo by Wolff Olins is revealed, sparking a international scandal as more than 50,000 British citizens sign a petition against its design. An animated version is said to cause seizures.
2008
Shepard Fairey creates the “Hope” poster to support Barack Obama’s presidential run. It becomes the single most representative image of any political campaign, ever. Fairey spends the next year in a heated fair-use battle with the Associated Press. No one wins. Oh, except Obama.
2009
Dubai’s Burj Dubai, designed by Adrian Smith, tops out at 2,684 ft, the tallest man-made structure ever built. It’s scheduled to open in January 2010 as reports of Dubai’s downfall begin to trickle into architectural publications.
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