# Spaces for the Instagram age

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2019-01-27
**Categories:** ad100, architectural-digest, architectural-digest-100, architecture, art, crosby-studio, design, design-miami, harry-nuriev, instagram, instagram-age, miami, moscow, new-york-city, social-media, time-magazine, toronto, uncategorized
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/spaces-for-the-instagram-age

## Content

In 2017, the New York Times Style Magazine ran a piece on Harry Nuriev – and his design firm Crosby Studios – titled: The man designing spaces for the Instagram age. Since then, Harry and his firm have been in Time Magazine, have had a solo show at Design Miami, and have been named to the Architectural Digest 100, among many other things. There has obviously been a lot of talk over the last few years about the impact that Instagram is having on physical spaces and design #IRL (in real life). Some, or perhaps many, worry that it is having a “homogenizing effect on design.” Everyone is following a kind of global minimalism that looks good on social, but is maybe getting a bit monotonous. There’s no question that online is having an impact on how we design offline. But I am far less fussed about it than most. Architecture, design, and art have always reflected the cultural milieu at the time, and it just so happens that we are living through a period where the internet is transforming so much of what we know. It is always important to question what is going on. But I think Crosby Studios is doing some really great work.

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