Pentagram and the team at Samsung collaborated together to create a cohesive design interface for the Samsung Galaxy S8. Samsung wanted this new smartphone to carry its iconographic designs throughout the entire interface, so they turned to Pentagram, Eddie Opara, and his team. The goal was to create icons for the entire system, a design…
This piece was featured as the cover for the 2020 edition of “The Black List”. The company under the same name commissioned Eddie Opara’s team at Pentagram to create a cover for their annual list of “the most liked unproduced screenplays of the year” (“The Black List”, Pentagram). The cover was going to be very…
Eddie Opara is an impressive figure in the graphic design space, both for his work and his methods for approaching design. Opara is a British man born in the city of Wandsworth, London in 1972. He attended Yale University and the London College of Printing where he majored in graphic design and received his Masters…
“The Lego Movie” never fails to live up to its name as all aspects of the film are done entirely in lego animation, including the title sequence. Interestingly, the movie actually has no opening title sequence, and instead never reveals the title or any credits until the very end of the film. A deep look…
I gravitated to the typeface “Memoriam”, specifically “Memoriam Pro Headline Regular” when looking for a typeface that defined me. The typeface was designed by Patrick Griffin who is an art director and co-founder of Canada Type, the studio where this font was made. According to Adobe Fonts, New York Times commissioned the font to use…