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Eddie Opara

  • A brief jaunt through design, part one. Today we share a short interview with innovative graphic designer Eddie Opara.
    Eddie Opara: Always a work in progress
    Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration
    A brief jaunt through design, part three. Today we share a short interview with innovative graphic designer Eddie Opara. >
    17 Apr 17
  • Eddie Opara’s cover image for the Atlantic's annual Ideas issue, which explores creativity.
    Picturing the brain
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Pentagram's Eddie Opara captures the complexity of creative thinking in his cover design for "The Atlantic" magazine. >
    25 Aug 14
  • Passe-Partout app by Pentagram's Abbott Miller.
    Finger ballet
    Design News > Product Design
    Pentagram's Abbott Miller has designed an app that allows users to choreograph their own ballet sequences. >
    15 Jul 14
  • Take Five
    Take Five
    Take Five > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design / Product Design
    From a musical track to a museum that became a typeface - check out the stories that made headlines on designindaba.com this week. >
    27 Jun 14
  • Design Museum new visual identity and typeface by Eddie Opara.
    News: The museum that became a typeface
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum gets its own typeface and gives it away for free thanks to Eddie Opara's bold new identity makeover. >
    23 Jun 14
  • GLUCK+ visual identity and name by Eddie Opara.
    On the plus side
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Eddie Opara of Pentagram has designed a new name, visual identity and website for one of the most innovative architecture firms in New York. >
    16 Apr 14
  • Illustration created by Eddie Opara for Wired that renders the issue number 21.12 in its binary configuration of 1s and 0s.
    Binary numbers
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Designer Eddie Opara creates a striking illustration, which expresses a digital concept in analogue form, for the December 2013 issue of "Wired" magazine. >
    21 Dec 13
  • AIGA InsideOut poster by Marina Willer.
    Inside out
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Pentagram's Paula Scher and Eddie Opara have designed striking posters that reveal their personal impressions of San Francisco. >
    2 Nov 13
  • Eddie Opara at AGI Open London 2013.
    Eddie Opara: Designing for self-worth
    Inside View > Graphic Design & Illustration
    In an interview at AGI Open London 2013, Eddie Opara talks about dealing with frustrating client briefs. >
    25 Oct 13
  • Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars and Suburbs design by Eddie Opara.
    Information made visual
    Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Eddie Opara has designed the graphics for a new "friendly science" title, making the book's dense technical information understandable to all. >
    11 Oct 13
  • Platform identity by Eddie Opara.
    Standing out
    Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Eddie Opara has given Platform, a non-profit organisation, the credibility it deserves through a bold and memorable identity. >
    16 Sep 13
  • Carlo Ratti's Makr Shakr. Identity by Eddie Opara.
    Mix & Shakr
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration / Interaction Design
    Eddie Opara designed an identity, web application and data visualisation for Carlo Ratti's robotic barman, Makr Shakr. >
    6 Aug 13
  • Geothermal Heat Pump Manual: A Design and Installation Guide for New York City by Eddie Opara.
    Sustainable energy how-to manual
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design / Graphic Design & Illustration
    Eddie Opara has designed a how-to manual for New York City's innovative and sustainable geothermal heat pump system. >
    21 May 13
  • Pop of colour
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Pentagram's Pantone 2013 Calendar brings colour and digital graphics into the home and office for 2013. >
    8 Jan 13
  • Eddie Opara on creating three-dimensional designs
    Eddie Opara on creating three-dimensional designs
    Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Eddie Opara believes that a sense of identity is the most important thing one can hold on to. >
    12 Dec 12
  • Eddie Opara at Design Indaba 2012
    Eddie Opara: Who am I and what do I do as a designer?
    Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Interaction Design
    Graphic designer Eddie Opara gives insight into what makes him who he is and what he does as a designer. >
    7 Dec 12
  • Eddie Opara at AGI Open 2012
    Eddie Opara at AGI Open 2012
    Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design
    Eddie Opara believes that while graphic design tells stories, it also needs to talk more about systems. >
    11 Oct 12 / Brand Collaboration
  • Eddie Opara
    Eddie Opara
    Eddie Opara is a multifaceted designer whose work encompasses strategy, design and technology, with interactive installations, websites and more. >
    31 Jan 12
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