Ryan Lesser

Ryan Lesser
Occupation Art Director, Creative Lead

Ryan Lesser is an American video 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 The Beatles: Rock Band.

Ryan Lesser works for video game developer Harmonix.[1] 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",[2] and edited Helen Stickler's video documentary André the Giant Has a Posse and co-created Attention Deficit Disorder with Shephard Fairey.[3]

In 2014, Ryan lead a successful Kickstarter campaign for the Harmonix video game Amplitude (video game) to ship on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.

Games

Name Year Credited with Publisher
Harmonix
Guitar Hero 2005 Art Director, Art Lead, Designer Red Octane
Guitar Hero II 2006 Art Director, Designer Red Octane
Rock Band 2007 Art Director, Art Lead, Designer Electronic Arts
Rock Band 2 2008 Art Director, Designer MTV Games
The Beatles: Rock Band 2009 Art Director MTV Games
Amplitude 2015 Creative Lead Harmonix
Rock Band 4 2016 Creative Lead Harmonix

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[4]
03/19/09 20090075711 Systems and methods for providing a vocal experience for a player of a rhythm action game[5]
08/06/02 6429863 Method and apparatus for displaying musical data in a three dimensional environment[6]
01/01/13 D673582 Display screen or portion thereof with boombox icon[7]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ MTV Multiplayer » Harmonix on ‘Guitar Hero III’ — Bittersweet, Like Seeing Kids Off to College
  2. ↑ http://www.complex.com/style/2013/09/the-art-evolution-of-shepard-fairey/
  3. ↑ Attention Deficit Disorder
  4. ↑ https://www.google.com/patents/US8690670
  5. ↑ https://www.google.com/patents/US20090075711?dq=20090075711&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj97PO557jQAhXo6oMKHaQMBcgQ6AEIHTAA
  6. ↑ https://www.google.com/patents/US6429863?dq=6429863&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWhObF57jQAhWP14MKHb3hAdUQ6AEIHTAA
  7. ↑ http://patents.com/us-d673582.html
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