Documentation from the 2019 MFA Biennial. See Vimeo
Visiting Designer Lecture: Eddie Opara
Eddie Opara was born in Wandsworth, London in 1972. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale University, where he received his MFA in 1997. He began his career as a designer at ATG and Imaginary Forces and worked as a senior designer/art director at 2×4 before establishing his own studio, The Map Office, in 2005. He joined Pentagram’s New York office as partner in 2010.
Visiting Designer Lectures are located at the Graduate Program building on 169 Weybosset Street and open to the public.
Views of the 2019 senior show. See website with link to student work at endless-scroll.risd.gd
Glimpse back at student, faculty and alumni work (and faces) on display at this year’s RISD Unbound Book Fair.
“The type designer imagines typography, then figures out how to make the parts to express it.” From Cyrus Highsmith’s graduate Type Design course.