Ryan Lesser


Ryan Lesser is an American video game and board game designer, musician and graphic artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, he is best known for his design and art direction on influential video games Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Rock Band and .
Ryan Lesser is the Art Director for video game developer Otherside Entertainment, faculty at Rhode Island School of Design and Founder of Wild Power Games. From 1999-2018, Ryan served as Creative Lead and Art Director at Harmonix. He is a member of the heavy metal band Megasus. In the early to mid 1990s, Lesser worked with Shephard Fairey on the street art phenomena "Andre the Giant has a Posse" and "OBEY", and edited Helen Stickler's video documentary André the Giant Has a Posse and co-created Attention Deficit Disorder with Shephard Fairey.
In 2014, Ryan lead a successful Kickstarter campaign for the Harmonix video game Amplitude to ship on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.

Games

Patents

Ryan is listed as an Inventor on the following patents:
Date of PatentPatent NumberTitle
04/23/098690670Systems and methods for simulating a rock band experience
03/19/0920090075711Systems and methods for providing a vocal experience for a player of a rhythm action game
08/06/026429863Method and apparatus for displaying musical data in a three dimensional environment
01/01/13D673582Display screen or portion thereof with boombox icon