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Eddie Opara: Always a work in progress
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A brief jaunt through design, part three. Today we share a short interview with innovative graphic designer Eddie Opara.
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17 Apr 17
Picturing the brain
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Pentagram's Eddie Opara captures the complexity of creative thinking in his cover design for "The Atlantic" magazine.
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25 Aug 14
Finger ballet
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Product Design
Pentagram's Abbott Miller has designed an app that allows users to choreograph their own ballet sequences.
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15 Jul 14
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From a musical track to a museum that became a typeface - check out the stories that made headlines on designindaba.com this week.
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27 Jun 14
News: The museum that became a typeface
Design News
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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.
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23 Jun 14
On the plus side
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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.
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16 Apr 14
Binary numbers
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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.
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21 Dec 13
Inside out
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Pentagram's Paula Scher and Eddie Opara have designed striking posters that reveal their personal impressions of San Francisco.
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2 Nov 13
Eddie Opara: Designing for self-worth
Inside View
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Graphic Design & Illustration
In an interview at AGI Open London 2013, Eddie Opara talks about dealing with frustrating client briefs.
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25 Oct 13
Information made visual
Lookbook
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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.
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11 Oct 13
Standing out
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Eddie Opara has given Platform, a non-profit organisation, the credibility it deserves through a bold and memorable identity.
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16 Sep 13
Mix & Shakr
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Interaction Design
Eddie Opara designed an identity, web application and data visualisation for Carlo Ratti's robotic barman, Makr Shakr.
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6 Aug 13
Sustainable energy how-to manual
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Eddie Opara has designed a how-to manual for New York City's innovative and sustainable geothermal heat pump system.
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21 May 13
Pop of colour
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Pentagram's Pantone 2013 Calendar brings colour and digital graphics into the home and office for 2013.
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8 Jan 13
Eddie Opara on creating three-dimensional designs
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Eddie Opara believes that a sense of identity is the most important thing one can hold on to.
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12 Dec 12
Eddie Opara: Who am I and what do I do as a designer?
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Interaction Design
Graphic designer Eddie Opara gives insight into what makes him who he is and what he does as a designer.
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7 Dec 12
Eddie Opara at AGI Open 2012
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Eddie Opara believes that while graphic design tells stories, it also needs to talk more about systems.
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11 Oct 12
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Brand Collaboration
Eddie Opara
Eddie Opara is a multifaceted designer whose work encompasses strategy, design and technology, with interactive installations, websites and more.
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31 Jan 12
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