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…
Eddie Opara is a successful designer who began his career through his study of graphic design at Yale University in 1997 and working for well-known establishments such as 2×4 and currently, Pentagram. While the projects that he discussed during his presentation were centered towards designing brand identity, publications, packaging, and environments, I discovered that a…
Eddie Opara is one of the twenty-three owners of the Pentagram, the world’s largest independent design consultancy. His presentation for NC State’s College of Design spanned various aspects of his work over the expanse of his successful career and gave the audience lots to take away from it, no matter the age…
Eddie Opara, a well-established designer whose work spans all 5 of the different practices we have learned, detailed “what the hell he does on a daily basis” and the hierarchy that fuels the intention behind his work in his lecture about many of his projects. His hierarchy lies in 9 different categories: neutral, variable, adaptive,…
All the guest speakers we have had this semester were so different in terms of the kind of work that they do and I was introduced to so many different perspectives, ideologies, methods, processes. I was wide-eyed what this new lecture would be about. I had gone through the description but there wasn’t much I…
Eddie Opara is a founding partner of the Map Office, which is a New York-based studio specializing in design, strategy, and technology. I had no knowledge about Opara or the Map Office prior to this lecture.The speaker who introduced Opara already knocked me over by sharing a multitude of diverse projects that Opara has been…