Eddie Opara
Eddie Opara is a designer, educator, author, and partner at Pentagram’s New York office. His work blends strategy, design, and technology across brand identity, digital experiences, exhibitions, and environments. He has collaborated with clients including OPPO, Samsung, Rivian, lululemon, and the Mellon Foundation. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and member of Alliance Graphique Internationale, he is also a senior critic at Yale. His work has been exhibited at MoMA.
The Responsibility of Innovation: Design's Social Role
In an era where the world’s most urgent challenges demand not just awareness but action, designers are uniquely positioned to respond.
This keynote explores design’s social role, emphasizing the power creatives hold in driving positive change through innovative and impactful projects, fostering collective responsibility. Drawing from decades of work across brand identity, digital experience, and environmental systems, Eddie unpacks how design can serve as a catalyst for new regeneration, well-being, education, agency and impact.
