Our team
Join the team
We’re currently accepting new applications to join our team. If you’d like to join a group of like-minded People of Colour and make a difference in the Irish creative industry, then send us an email at designopp@idi-design.ie.
We are currently on the lookout for people to work on:
• Events
• Project management
• Social Media Design
• Activism
• Funding & Sponsorship Co-ordination
If you have experience in any of these areas or you simply want to get involved, then get in touch and we’ll be happy to chat!
Our Team
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Grace Enemaku
Grace is co-founder of DesignOpp and is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer and illustrator who creates branding and illustration for the unconventional. She is the glue of the team, keeping everything ticking along and overseeing social and opportunities.
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Greg Osborne
Greg is co-founder of DesignOpp and is an Ireland-based Branding and Design Consultant. His role in DesignOpp is to oversee educational progress, focusing on curriculum change and in-school activities.
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Yang Yang
Yang Yang is the Head of Community for DesignOpp. She is a multimedia designer and illustrator based in Dublin. After joining up and starting volunteers in 2022, she has been in charge of general design, running social and events, photography, website, and member coordination.
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Oba William-Funmilayo
Oba is the Project Manager for the DesignOpp social media team and a Designer/Maker specializing in Brand Experience Design and Art Fabrication. Passionate about creating experiences that celebrate diverse cultures, Oba believes design has the power to drive real change.
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Ashwin Chacko
Ashwin is the social director for DesignOpp and is an author, illustrator & motivational speaker. He specialise in positive visual storytelling. He likes to describe his work as positively playful.
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Hannah Chang Hui Ross
Hannah is part of the DesignOpp social team. She is a graphic designer from West Cork. She believes that we have so much more potential as an industry if we prioritise equality and diversity for a better future. She approaches all projects with curiosity and passion and hopes to create empathetic narratives, challenge people’s expectations, inform and excite.
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Gabriela Joyce
Gabi is an artist and designer from Mexico currently based in Dublin, Ireland. She enjoys creating projects such as illustrations, murals and lettering. Inspired by her Mexican roots, the beauty of the natural world, music and design, her work is often playful and bold exploring new ways to make an impact and inspire with uplifting energy.
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Debora Adachi
Debora is a Brazilian-Japanese illustrator, children's author, and workshop facilitator based in Dublin, Ireland. Debora's passion stems from her connections to family and ancestry. Coming from a mixed cultural background, she brings a unique perspective to her work that is deeply influenced by that. She believes in the importance of community building, that’s why she’s part of the Desing Opp events team, where she can connect with people and bring them together!
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Xuying Li
Xuying is part of the DesignOpp event team as a project manager, and she is a photographer based in Dublin and Kilkenny. Her work captures the subtle interactions between individuals and their surroundings through the lens, conveying genuine emotions and vitality in fleeting moments.
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Adetunji Paul
Adetunji is a podcast host & strategist, a multi-disciplinary creative, digital artist. He runs a company called Studio BLVCK, a creative agency, media company, and illustrator rep and part of our events team.
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Rachel Coube
She's a product designer and a project management team member at DesignOpp. She believes that bringing design principles into everyday life makes work feel more natural and enjoyable and makes leisure time more fulfilling. To her, the most essential part of design is breaking free from certain biases - once we do, it opens up the best opportunities to apply the techniques, insights, and experiences we've gathered over time.
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Onyedikachi Onwusor
Onyedikachi runs email communications and is responsible for our monthly newsletter. He is a painter and muralist based in Wexford. He wants to nurture a platform of outreach and inclusion for creatives of colour.
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Holly Pereira
Holly Pereira is a mentor at DesignOpp and is an illustrator & muralist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her work is colourful, fun and bold, and often takes reference from folk art. Her murals explore the use of colour in the public space, and she creates bright and exuberant environments in which we are invited to play.
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Timi Ogunyemi
Timi is a mentor at DesignOpp and is Global Brand Manager at Sailor Jerry. He has an extensive career in design and advertising, recently moving brand-side after his time at Ogilvy.