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 Patent | Patent Number | Title |
| 04/23/09 | 8690670 | Systems and methods for simulating a rock band experience |
| 03/19/09 | 20090075711 | Systems and methods for providing a vocal experience for a player of a rhythm action game |
| 08/06/02 | 6429863 | Method and apparatus for displaying musical data in a three dimensional environment |
| 01/01/13 | D673582 | Display screen or portion thereof with boombox icon |