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Eddie Opara is new Pentagram NY partner

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Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 8 September 2010, 12:14    Permalink    Comments (11)

British-born designer Eddie Opara, founder of Map Office, is to join Pentagram's New York office as partner on October 1

Logo and book for 245 Tenth, a New York residence

Opara  is 38 and an LCP graduate. Since attending Yale, he has been based in New York where he founded his Map Office studio after previously working for 2x4.

Logo for Sorg architects

On top of his skills as a graphic designer and proven ability to run his own studio, Opara will bring some much-needed digital savvy to the Pentagram mix. As well as communications work, Map Office has also developed its own digital products, including View, a visualisation software system developed for ad agency JWT and The MiG, a content management system. He will also be the first non-white Pentagram partner.

From animated logo for Jet (Jewellery, Ethics and Trust), a 'high-end jewellery consulting firm'

Opara will be the second British partner at Pentagram New York, alongside Luke Hayman, the last addition to the team, who joined in 2006. CR understands that a new London-based partner will also be announced shortly.

UCLA Architecture & Urban Design school website

Read more about Opara and his appointment here

11 Comments

Congrats!
Reality Check
2010-09-09 15:04:00

Good reason for CR to conduct an interview?
MLA
2010-09-09 15:22:25

@ MLA

It's in the works
CR PatrickBurgoyne
2010-09-09 15:26:46

Great news. He deserves it.
karo akpokiere
2010-09-09 17:35:00

Great recognition for British design. Nice one.
Rob
2010-09-10 12:01:24

I'll look forward to the interview.

Nice to hear a black Graphic Designer being a partner of legendary company.
And some could say colour doesn't matter.. but young people who aspire to be the idols of there desired industry look at it on that level, its a way to make them feel they can actually do it themselves.
Ricky Diaghe
2010-09-10 12:47:40

Great addition!
Joslyn
2010-09-10 16:20:29

Finally. It is great to see a Black Graphic Designer get props. This is one industry that doesn't have enough working and certainly doesn't recognize most of them.

I look forward to seeing more about this
kahlil
2010-09-12 18:17:45

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vos
2010-09-12 19:57:00

Congrats matie
Graphic Design Manchester
2010-09-13 16:54:18

I enjoyed reading the comments until I stumbled upon remarks based on race. Actually I was hoping as I read through the collection that race/ethnicity would not be an issue raised. Can we for once not have someone take credentials purely for hard work as oppose to the colour of there skin? Neither gender or ethnicity are winning formulas for good designers. Rather, it is based on passionate hard working people.

I hope Patrick if you conduct a review the issue of race is not promoted. Times are changing let the work speak for itself. As Eddie Opara stated in at a lecture. He is a "Londoner!" I think that speaks for itself.
steven lawson
2011-02-15 22:58:56

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