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@emmanuelxboateng
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 — 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: 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 grid was paged end to end in a logged-in session - 33 of 33 visible posts captured (2021-2026), one cover image per post at CDN resolution, every caption verbatim - research/em-posts.json.
  2. Engagement: per-post likes and comments read from each post page's metadata as Instagram displays it (round figures like 47K recorded as shown); two posts expose no counts and are kept as null - research/em-posts.json.
  3. Palette: every cover image sampled on a 64×64 canvas - near-black / near-white / high-chroma coverage, median saturation and value, top colours weighted per post and per brand - research/em-pal.json.
  4. Filtering: 20 of 33 posts are design or funnel work (13 brand concepts across 9 companies + 7 house pitch posts); 13 personal, manifesto and faith posts are excluded from the board - the rules and every decision are in research/em-posts.json.
  5. Limits, stated plainly: 29 of his 62 posts are not shown in the public grid and could not be captured; video posts are represented by their cover frames, not in-video stills; assets are 640px covers, not source-resolution captures; ventures (The Designpreneur Blueprint, Hicly) are referenced from whop.com and emmanuelxboateng.com, not scraped.
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/em-posts.json if you ever want them back) - and the 29 grid-invisible posts, which this file does not pretend to describe.