Junior Ryan Lane has quickly climbed the sports graphic design ranks, designing Bleacher’s Report’s most popular Instagram post this year. Photo by Blake von der Lippe.
Ryan Lane’s alarm sounds at 6:30 a.m, just three hours after he went to bed.
Nonetheless, the junior digital media production major opens Photoshop on his laptop, ready to get to work on jersey swap designs for the day — designs that have garnered 1.5 million likes on social media.
“It takes a toll on me for sure,” Lane said. “There’s some weeks where I’ll get like 10 hours of sleep total, it’s rough.