Nearing the end of the decade, Topps rebounded after the disaster of 2007 with a pretty good design for 2008. There seems to be a pretty good consensus that this was a really good, nearly perfect design — except for one huge flaw. The uvula I’ve heard it called. The little tab at the top of the photo for the Topps logo to sit. Honestly, it doesn’t bother me that much but I can see the issues other have with it. Udder-ly unnecessary. (sorry)

So that’s the starting point. Make the photo frame an actual rectangle (with round edges) and move the Topps logo to the corner like they’ve done time and time again. Once that was done, I really had a hard time finding things to change. I made the double-stroke frame team colors instead of just black. I also did away with the foil for the names and just made them team colors as well so I could add in the position at the end of the name with the opposite color. Maybe not my most inspired remix but the need wasn’t necessarily there to do a lot of reworking.