Drawing by Jenny Mörtsell.



Ryan Waller is an art director and designer. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, he was the first creative hire at Mother, the sister agency of Mother London, where he worked for three years.

In 2006, Ryan was named a Young Gun by the Art Directors Club, a biennial international award for innovative talent in the visual communications field aged 30 and under. The same year he was recognized in The New Visual Artists Review, Print magazine's 'annual presentation of the twenty brightest design stars under 30 years old.' He has also appeared in Grafik, Fader, Arkitip, and Nylon magazines and was featured in the book New Masters of Poster Design. He's exhibited in New York, California, Chicago, London, Copenhagen, and Australia. He makes The New College Beat, a small circulation, self-published work of minority interest.

Ryan taught Visual Communications at Pratt Institute in 2006-2007 and attends Yale University, earning his Master's Degree in 2009.



Selected Clients, 2004-2007
AR Media
The Art Directors Club
Campfire
Channel Four (UK)
Columbia Records
Development NYC
Double NY Productions
HunterGatherer
Lakai Skateboard Shoes
Lifelong Friendship Society
LOBO
Mother Industries (US)
MTV, Music Televsion
Nixon
Pratt Institute
Stussy
Transistor Studios
Virgin Records (US + UK)
Yale University Art Gallery



Exhibitions, 2004-2007
Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, 2007 ªTrue Believers´
ADC Gallery, New York, 2006 ªYoung Guns 5´
V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, 2006 ªHighmath: Arkitip x V1 Gallery´
M+R, London; Space 1026, Philadelphia, 2006 ªThe Free Library´
Selective Hearing Gallery, San Diego, 2004 ªThe Unbearable Brightness of Neon´



Publications, 2005-2007
New Masters of Poster Design, Rockport Publishers, 2006
Designed To Help, Die Gestalten Verlag, 2005
Hybreed, Idn, 2007



Magazines, 2004-2007
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Arkitip
Clark magazine (FR)
Fader magazine
Drama magazine
Exit Strategy
Fader magazine
Grafik magazine (UK)
Lodown magazine (DE)
Nylon magazine
Paper magazine
Print magazine
Re:Up magazine
Riot magazine (AU)
Swindle magazine
Juxtapoz magazine
Walrus magazine (CA)



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