Ryan Lesser

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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^[1] and The Beatles: Rock Band.^[2][3]

Lesser is an art director at video game developer CD Projekt Red in their American studio The Molasses Flood, faculty at Rhode Island School of Design^[4] and Founder of Wild Power Games.^[5] From 1999–2018, Lesser served as creative lead and art director at Harmonix.^[6] He was a member of the heavy metal band Megasus. In the early- to mid-1990s, Lesser worked^[7] with Shepard Fairey on the street art phenomena "Andre the Giant has a Posse"^[8] and "Obey,"^[9] and edited Helen Stickler's video documentary André the Giant Has a Posse and co-created Attention Deficit Disorder^[10] with Shepard Fairey.^[11]

In 2014, Lesser led a successful Kickstarter campaign^[12] for the Harmonix video game Amplitude to ship on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.

Lesser is listed as an inventor on the following patents:

• Official website