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2008 was the year of the rat

The year 2008 (MMVIII) was a leap year that started on a Tuesday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 2008th year of the Common Era or of Anno Domini; the 8th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 9th of the 2000s decade.^[1]

• January 2008
• Two years on, here’s another rant about the state of blogging
• Ágætis Byrjun
• Found typography
• Do you have any puffin?
• Future of Web Design 08
• Don’t POSH me
• Dear students…
• February 2008
• Official gig poster art by Chris Summerlin
• More Nottingham gig artwork - Jay Ryan (Bird Machine)
• Colly’s design-related analogy for the day
• The Indy-fatigable franchise is back!
• Get your own Erskine badge and join our ephemera wall
• Pimping Greg Wood’s new website
• March 2008
• The Seldom Seen Kid
• Tanks, troops and terror
• North Pole Speed Record
• April 2008
• The Future of Web Design conference 2008
• May 2008
• Apologies for the interruption in service
• June 2008
• The best cover versions ever made?
• Fuel Conference
• An industry defined by accountability and technology will suffocate without idiosyncrasy
• Readers, I want your money!
• Doing our bit for charity
• July 2008
• Twenty posts in one
• September 2008
• David Stanley Collison
• Heroes of Burgertown
• Under the stars & over the moon
• CSR360 and ENGAGE
• October 2008
• Pens are Jon’s Friends
• WallSwaps - an experiment
• Frith Street Gallery
• Despite apparent bankruptcy, Iceland can still fly an entire pub to London
• November 2008
• Fleet Foxes, Nottingham
• Eulogy
• Tracking another client on the icy wastes
• Trailer: Erskine and the Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride - a tale of horror and woe
• Belle & Sebastian, Burgerman, and some other mates all rolled into one neat Christmas competition
• I am not John Cleese
• December 2008
• Why I use Dropbox, and how it enables killer scrapbooking
• Building Beautiful Websites with EE—a FOWD workshop from Erskine Design

Footnotes

1. ↑ Sourced from Wikipedia.

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