Instagram: The Star of Milan 2014

“The star of Milan this year was Instagram” says Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs, in an opinion piece about the way the photo sharing app set the agenda at this year’s Milan design week and is now a powerful arbiter of taste.

Instagram feeds are highly personal, highly curated visual diaries of an individual’s aesthetic interaction with a place. The filters and cropping tools allow you to achieve visual perfection within a little square frame, creating an idealised world free of the clutter and noise of the real world.

Source: Dezeen

Read it: Here