There are few things that I will admit to having a borderline unhealthy passion about … a brand new sharpie pen, floating in the pool with a cold drink, and the second-to-last time walking through a project I designed. I have been debating whether or not I want to admit the latest possible addition to […]

There are few things that I will admit to having a borderline unhealthy passion about … a brand new sharpie pen, floating in the pool with a cold drink, and the second-to-last time walking through a project I designed. I have been debating whether or not I want to admit the latest possible addition to this list … Instagram.
Instagram has been around for a long time so why would I be bringing this up now" Surely I am not so far behind the curve that I only know am figuring out now that people like it, or possibly worse, that I am liking it as it is moving into the realm of being an irrelevant application … kind of like saying “MySpace is amazing …” a month before everybody stopped using it. Except that’s not the case where Instagram is concerned. As of April 2017, Instagram has 700 million users – a figure twice what it was just 2 years ago. My first post on Instagram was on September 26, 2011, when the platform was 11 months old and it was not a particularly interesting photo:
I was in England for London Design Festival and it was what every roomful of designers was currently talking about – so I though...