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Design board / Emmanuel Boateng / Graphic Designer, 1000+ clients

Emmanuel
Boateng The pitch is the post

Every company Emmanuel Boateng has made design work for, on one board, with every slide intact: 59 posts, 320 carousel and reel frames, 46 design and funnel posts across 19 companies. The BAPE, Louis Vuitton, Off-White and Amiri concept drops that built his audience, the conceptual collaborations, and the house pitch posts that converted the audience into clients. Personal and manifesto posts are filtered out; what's left is the design and the funnel itself, grouped by company, every caption quoted verbatim, every number linked to its post.

01 — THE READ

Six things that
repeat

Patterns that hold across the whole filtered archive. Each is backed by a number from the data, not vibes.

02 — THE PLAYBOOK

How to run a
design storefront

Three laws and twelve moves distilled from the whole archive — every one backed by a number from the data and a step you can run.

03 — PALETTE

Paper white,
black type

Sampled from the captured assets. Swatches are the most-used saturated colours; neutrals carry the volume.

– of pixels are near-black
– are pure white
– are high-chroma
– median saturation
04 — THE BOARD

Every company,
every design

One card per company. Click through for every post behind it: every slide of every carousel, the cover, the caption verbatim, the numbers behind every claim.

05 — METHOD

How this
was built

Everything here is traceable to a post, a short or a project page. No invented credits.

  1. Instagram, the visible grid: his profile was harvested end to end in a logged-in session — 59 of the 66 posts the header claims, 2021-08-19 to 2026-11-03, every caption verbatim and all 320 carousel/reel slides kept at CDN resolution — research/v2/posts-full.json.
  2. Engagement: per-post likes and comments read exactly as Instagram returns them in the v2 harvest; the top post shows 56,119 likes and 479 comments — research/v2/build/raw/posts.json.
  3. Palette: every slide sampled with ffmpeg at 64×64 (not a canvas) and pooled per post — near-black / near-white / high-chroma coverage, median saturation and value, top colours weighted per post and per brand — research/v2/build/raw/palettes.json.
  4. Filtering: 46 of 59 posts are design or funnel work across 19 companies, carried by 208 slides; 13 personal, manifesto and faith posts (112 slides) are excluded from the board — every decision is in research/v2/build/draft/classified.json.
  5. Limits, stated plainly: 7 of the 66 posts the profile header claims are unreachable and not shown; the 25 reels are represented by their cover images, not in-video stills; video files were not saved; assets are CDN-resolution covers and slides, not source files.
What was cut, on purpose: the 2021-2024 personal archive — the dagarti and pianura padana posts, the memento mori essay, the faith and legacy statements (kept in research/v2/posts-full.json if you ever want them back) — and the 7 grid-invisible posts, which this file does not pretend to describe.