PENTAGRAM - Key Persons
Abbott Miller was born in Indiana and studied design at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. In 1989 he founded the multidisciplinary studio Design/Writing/Research where, in collaboration with Ellen Lupton, he pioneered the concept of "designer as author," undertaking projects in which content and form are developed in a symbiotic relationship. He joined Pentagram's New York office as a partner in June 1999.
Abbott's projects are often concerned with the cultural role of design and the public life of the written word. At Pentagram he leads a team designing books, magazines, catalogs, identities, exhibitions, and creating editorial projects.
Abbott has received numerous design honors, including medals from the Society for Publication Designers and three nominations for National Magazine Awards. In 1994 Abbott-together with Ellen Lupton-was awarded the first annual Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. He is a member of the Type Directors Club, the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) and the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). He teaches in the Graphic Design Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
His work and critical writing has appeared in Eye, Print and other publications, and he is the co-author of four books, including the classic Design/Writing/Research: Writing on Graphic Design. A survey of his design work, Abbott Miller: Design and Content, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2014.
Andrea Trabucco-Campos is a graphic and type designer whose practice utilizes typography and behavior to build transformative visual identities. An active voice in emerging technologies like AI, his work investigates their role in the design process and culture. His output spans the digital to the material, encompassing brand identities and systems, websites and apps, print and editorial, motion and interaction, signage and environmental, and custom typefaces.
Andrea has led teams in transforming and launching some of the world's most renowned brands. He has partnered with a range of organizations including Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Apple, Mastercard, The New York Times, United Nations, Noma, Space10 (IKEA's Creative Lab), and MasterClass, among others.
Andrea was born in Colombia, grew up in Italy and now resides in New York. He leverages the experience of his own cultural journey to uncover the essence of others' identities. His pursuit of contextual tensions and fluency in design history allows him to create work that crosses boundaries, strategically putting brands in conversation with culture.
Andrea was previously a creative director at Gretel and DesignStudio, and is returning to Pentagram after prior stints as a designer and associate partner in the New York office from 2015-2019. Alongside these roles, he has maintained an independent practice for over a decade, designing identities for theaters and film festivals, award-winning books and websites, and custom typefaces for publications.
In 2022, Andrea's active curiosity led him to co-found and run Vernacular, a small independent publisher with a focus on the intersection of form, typography and visual culture that stretch beyond the commonly agreed registers of "good design." His first book, Artificial Typography, has garnered international attention and recognition for pushing the evolving conversation of AI and design.
Andrea holds a BA in Philosophy from New York University and received his Masters in Design at the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan. He has taught courses in typography and graphic design at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) since 2017, and he regularly lectures at a number of other institutions, including Parsons School of Design and the Cooper Union in New York and the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan.
His work has been honored in Fast Company's Innovation by Design Awards, the D&AD Awards, the Art Directors Club Awards, the Type Directors Club Annual, the Society of Typographic Arts 100, the New York Design Awards, and Brand New's Best Identities, among others. In 2018 he was nominated for a Grammy for his and Luke Hayman's work with The National.
Job Titles:
- External Consultant and Creative Director at Cass Art
- Graphic Designer, Author
Angus Hyland is a graphic designer, author and creative director. He has been named one of the UK's top ten graphic designers by The Independent, and has received over a hundred creative awards, including five D&AD silver awards.
Hyland has worked with some of the world's best known private and public sector brands. These include: Eurosport, an international television sports network; Penguin Random House, the world's largest publishing house; Mulberry, a British luxury brand; Asprey, the Royal jewellers; EAT, a chain of high street lunch spots; H&M, a multinational retail company; Marimekko, a textile, furniture and retail store; Maersk, the world's latest shipping and logistics company; Rolls-Royce, the British multinational aircraft engine and power systems business; AkzoNobel, the multinational manufacturer; and Grant Thornton, a global financial services group.
In addition, Hyland has created visual identities for several cultural institutions including: National Museums Liverpool, Sage Gateshead, Crafts Council, Luminato Arts Festival, The William Morris Society, along with exhibition design for Tate Modern.
For the past decade, Hyland has been an external consultant and creative director at Cass Art and Laurence King Publishing.
He has written 12 books on design and art. These include: SYMBOL, a collection of 1300 graphic symbols, C/ID: Visual Identity and Branding for the Arts; and - most recently - The Maze: A Labyrinthine Compendium, a journey through the world's most beguiling mazes.
Hyland was elected a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1999. In 2012, he was was awarded a visiting fellowship at the University of Arts London. He is a former External Examiner for the MA in Graphic Design at the Royal College of Art.
He studied information design at the London College of Printing and graphic art and design at the Royal College of Art. After running his own successful studio in Soho for ten years, he became a partner in Pentagram's London offices in 1998.
Domenic Lippa is an internationally recognised designer, known for his work in identity, packaging, retail graphics, typography, signage and print. His clients range from Swarovski, Clarks Shoes and H&M to the University of the Arts, University of Sussex, BT and Virgin Media.
Domenic studied graphic design at the London College of Printing. After founding and running Lippa Pearce for 16 years, he became a partner at Pentagram London in 2006.
He is a prominent member of London's design community. Since 2007, he has been the Design Director for the London Design Festival, working with its team to develop all aspects of the Festival's graphic output. In 2015 this led onto the creation of a new brand identity for the London Design Biennale.
Domenic has an in-depth knowledge of typography. He has co-edited and designed the international magazine baseline and sat on the executive committee of The Typographic Circle - an organisation dedicated to raising interest and standards in typography. He currently co-edits and designs their magazine, Circular, which was exhibited at the V&A in 2013.
Domenic is a member of D&AD, Type Director's Club, Art Directors Club, Royal Society of Arts, and the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). He has sat on the juries of numerous competitions including D&AD and RSA awards.
Job Titles:
- Best Blnz Packaging Is a Designer Favorite on the Dieline Arrow Icon Large
- Senior Critic at the Yale University School of Art
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.
Opara is a multi-faceted designer whose work encompasses strategy, design and technology. His projects have included the design of brand identity, publications, packaging, environments, exhibitions, interactive installations, websites, user interfaces and software, with many of his projects ranging across multiple media.
His clients have included Mellon Foundation, Nubank, Calendly, lululemon athletica, re-inc, OPPO, Realme, Simplisafe, Samsung, Dashlane, SFMOMA, The Baffler, The New Republic, Hisense, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Grace Farms, the Menil Foundation, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Queens Museum, Corcoran Sunshine, Ennead Architects, SHoP Architects, Morgan Stanley, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), Grimshaw Architects, (ARO) Architecture Research Office, Harry N. Abrams and Princeton Architectural Press.
Opara has won numerous awards including a Gold Cube from the Art Directors Club and honors from D&AD, the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD), Type Directors Club, Tokyo Type Directors Club, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and Communication Arts. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has appeared in publications such as Wired, Fast Company, Creative Review, Archis, Surface and Graphis.
Opara is a senior critic at the Yale University School of Art. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Columbia University School of Architecture and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. He is a member of the distinguished design society, Alliance Graphique Internationale and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art. Opara authored a book, Color Works, published by Rockport. He was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012 and 2014, and was featured in Ebony Magazine's Power 100 and Adweek's Creative 100.
Emily Oberman is a multidisciplinary designer whose work encompasses brand identity, motion graphics, publications, packaging, advertising, and websites.
A native of Yonkers, New York, Emily studied design and filmmaking at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. After graduation she joined the legendary design studio M&Co., collaborating with Tibor Kalman on work for Knoll, Wieden & Kennedy, (the much-missed) Restaurant Florent, and Talking Heads, for whom they made the award-winning music video for for "(Nothing But) Flowers." With Kalman as creative director, Emily was the original designer for the launch of Benetton's critically acclaimed magazine, Colors. Emily cofounded the design studio Number Seventeen in 1993, which operated for (coincidentally, perhaps) 17 years. She joined Pentagram's New York office as partner in 2012.
Emily's work is unique in that it blurs the line between promotion and design-often using language and humor to make an emotional connection. Her clients include film and television, hotels and restaurants, real estate developments, cultural institutions and nonprofit organizations.
Clients and projects include NBC Universal, including brand identities for "30 Rock," "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Saturday Night Live," for whom she has designed the opening title sequence for 19 years, as well as a visual history published by Taschen; strategy and branding for DC Entertainment and the "Justice League" film; strategy and branding for Film Independent; branding for the LA Film Festival; identity and show packaging for the Film Independent Spirit Awards; strategy and branding for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mia); branding and signage for Hudson River Park in New York; branding and opening sequences for Tina Fey's "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" and Tracey Wigfield's "Great News"; identities for JK Rowling's Wizarding World and the films "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "The Crimes of Grindelwald"; and the identity for Steven Spielberg‘s adaptation of "Ready Player One."
Emily's work has been recognized by the AIGA, the Type Directors Club, the Art Directors Club and Communication Arts, among others. In 2004, she was awarded the prestigious Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award for distinguished alumni from her alma mater, Cooper Union. In 2016 she was chosen by Fast Company as one of the year's 100 most creative people in business. In 2022 she was awarded the profession's highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in recognition of her distinguished achievements and contributions to the field. She has served on the national board of AIGA and as president of its New York chapter. She has taught in the graduate program of Yale University School of Art, as well as at Cooper Union and Parsons The New School for Design.
Giorgia Lupi is an award-winning information designer whose work synthesizes data and storytelling in innovative ways to create unique and singular brand expressions.
In her practice, she designs engaging data-driven visual narratives across print, digital and environmental media that create new insight and appreciation of people, ideas, and organizations. Her vibrant and inspiring design work empowers leading global organizations to achieve their mission through data-driven storytelling and reflects her belief that data has the capacity to make us all more human-advancing our intelligence, engagement, and delight.
One of the most lauded designers of her generation and a prominent voice in the field of data design, Lupi was the 2022 recipient of the National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and the first data visualization practitioner ever to be named in its communication design category. In 2022 she also received an honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Across her career, Lupi has built rich, visually driven experiences around data for international clients such as Google, Verizon, IBM, Deloitte and Starbucks. Recent cultural clients include MoMA, TED, Triennale Milano Design Museum and Getty Museum. She has designed custom data visualizations for national and international publications like The New York Times, Wired, Popular Science, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Italy's Corriere della Sera. A proponent of using data to help bring awareness to some of the world's most pressing problems, non-profit clients and causes include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Knight Foundation, World Health Organization and United Nations.
Lupi was born in Italy and received her Master's degree in architecture from Università di Ferrara and her PhD from Politecnico di Milano, where she focused on information mapping. In 2011, she co-founded Accurat, an acclaimed data-driven research, design and innovation firm with offices in Milan and New York. She joined Pentagram as a partner in 2019.
Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and she has been commissioned for original art installations also by MoMA, Museum of the City of New York, New York Botanical Garden and TED. A former MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow, she is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on New Metrics and a Fellow of the RSA.
Her TED Talk on her humanistic approach to data has over one million views. She has published two books, Dear Data (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016), exploring the details of daily life through hand-drawn visual data; and Observe, Collect, Draw! A Visual Journal (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), a guided journal for collecting visual data. Lupi has been featured in international media including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, NPR, BBC, T Magazine, Vogue and Vanity Fair.
Job Titles:
- Graphic Designer
- Designer Breakfasts
Harry Pearce is a graphic designer, accidentalist, eternal optimist and photographer.
He studied at Canterbury College of Art. Before joining Pentagram as a partner in 2006, he co-founded and co-ran Lippa Pearce Design for 16 years.
Pearce has worked around the world devising identities, installations, posters, packaging, books and talks for clients as diverse as Liberty, Thames & Hudson, Camden Art Centre, WITNESS, The John Lewis Partnership, Waitrose & Partners No.1, the Royal Academy of Arts, Abu Dhabi cultural quarter, Berry Bros & Rudd, Phaidon Press, Pink Floyd Records, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lloyd's of London, Shakespeare's Globe, PEN International, Science Museum and the UN. For Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor, he created identities for their major retrospectives at the RA.
His work has been exhibited in New York, Paris, London, Toronto and Naples.
Since 1993 he has been an active member of the advisory board for WITNESS, a human rights charity founded by Peter Gabriel. He is also a committed member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and has spoken at design conferences across the globe including Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, USA, India, Holland and Costa Rica.
Pearce is the author of two books, Typographic Conundrums (published in 2009) and Eating with the Eyes (published in 2015).