Earlier this year, scrolling through Instagram and encountering a 10-part PowerPoint-style presentation with multiple citations would have been unexpected. In 2018, the Instagram app finally allowed users to share others’ content, via “stories” — which are particularly conducive to helping these graphics spread. This is similar to the criticism leveled against Blackout Tuesday (when mostly non-Black Instagram users and companies posted a black square in vague solidarity with BLM). Ty got into posting infographics while trying to do the “complete opposite” of posting a black square. For Ty, the black square was not functional, and design — be it that of a chocolate wrapper or a Miranda Rights explainer — must be functional.

Source: Washington Post August 15, 2020 09:56 UTC