Shutterstock celebrates 15th birthday with creative posters marking iconic moments
Today (July 10), stock photography, footage and music platform Shutterstock is launching a creative poster series to mark the 15th anniversary of the company’s founding.
Shutterstock celebrates 15 years with creative poster campaign
To celebrate, Shutterstock’s team of in-house designers selected one iconic moment from each of the past 15 years and created a poster to represent the historic event. Each of the designs are created using imagery from Shutterstock's collection of over 200 million images, also highlighting the artwork of Shutterstock’s contributor community.
Since its founding in 2003, Shutterstock has marked a number of company milestones, from reaching its first 300,000 images in year 2005 (now over 200m) to surpassing over 1bn image, video and music licenses sold earlier this year. In that time, the world has also seen historic moments including Angela Merkel becoming the first female chancellor of Germany in 2005 and NASA’s Curiosity rover landing on Mars in 2012.
The list of iconic moments, from scientific and technological breakthroughs to social media launches, iconic entertainment moments and important socio-political moments over the past 15 years that were chosen to be reinterpreted using Shutterstock imagery include: 2003 - Mapping of the Human Genome; 2004 - Launch of Facebook; 2005 - Angela Merkel elected as Germany’s first female chancellor; 2006 - Disney’s acquisition of Pixar; 2007 - Release of the first iPhone; 2008 - Barack Obama, first African-American president of the US, elected; 2009 - Oldest skeleton of human ancestor found; 2010 - Worst oil spill in U.S. history takes place in the Gulf of Mexico; 2011 - Game of Thrones premieres on HBO; 2012 - NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on Mars; 2013 - Nelson Mandela dies at age 95; 2014 - Germany wins FIFA World Cup in Brazil; 2015 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal across the US; 2016 - Pokémon Go shows the possibilities for augmented reality; 2017 - #MeToo movement goes global
“In 2003, I recognized a need in the marketplace for commercially licensed photos. Since then, we’ve made incredible strides forward in becoming a global creative platform thanks to the work and dedication of not only our customers and contributors, but also our team of more than 1000 employees around the world,” said Shutterstock founder and chief executive officer, Jon Oringer.
“15 years ago we couldn’t have predicted all the remarkable achievements and milestones we would accomplish together. Over the next 15 years, we will continue to focus our efforts on enhancing the best-in-class customer and contributor experience, offering a creative platform with the highest-quality content and increasingly precise search tools powered by our custom deep learning and AI technology. There’s so much opportunity for Shutterstock in the years ahead and I’m excited for what’s to come,” he said.
See a sampling of the posters by clicking on the Creative Works box below.
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