When I saw a photograph in my Twitter feed last Thursday of a protester holding a flag in Union Square, it was difficult to look away from the flag’s blocky, capitalized type. A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday. It shouted the words so matter-of-factly that I felt myself physically flinch.
The flag waved unadorned, just black and white, with a word that seemed to invade all my senses: lynched. As a digital designer who works with illustrators and is constantly wrestling with how to boil down complex stories into an immediately understandable visual language, I couldn’t help but pause and recognize the flag’s potent simplicity.
