About
This area is dedicated to the key instances in my life that played the largest part in defining who I am. Of course I cannot cover every part of my story here. But you can always contact me for more information, project requests, or simply to offer a happy hello by email at info@ryanriegner.com. Alternatively, you can approach me on Twitter via @ryanriegner.
Lifelong Milestones

August, 2011 – Present ⇒
After my internship ends at Sagmeister inc. I will be officially self employed full time as I run my own graphic design company based in New York.

June – August, 2011 ⇒
After graduation, I headed over and started a three month internship at Sagmeister inc. in New York. It has been extremely worthwhile thus far.

May, 2011 ⇒
After four years I graduated from Parsons, with a BFA in Communication Design. I met many great designers there who are now my good friends.

July, 2010 – May, 2011 ⇒
With a stroke of luck, I was offered the opportunity to intern, then work for some of my design heros at karlssonwilker inc. in New York.

May, 2010 ⇒
One day in mid summer my father unexpectedly passed away. Alongside my sister, we spread his ashes at the Grand Canyon. I now wear his Brigade Quartz watch everyday.

May – July, 2010 ⇒
In the summer after my Junior year in college I spent two months working for Lippincott Mercer, as part of the design team, working on various corporate rebrands.

January, 2010 ⇒
I became extremely interested in lifestyle design. I began this journey by attempting to learn Mandarin Chinese. I've since turned my life into a series of small design projects.

August – November, 2009 ⇒
The summer before my junior year in college, I traveled abroad to study graphic design at RMIT in Melbourne Australia for three months in between internships at SPIN and Zago LLC.

December, 2007 – July, 2010 ⇒
Halfway through my freshman year, I founded my first company, Albino Rhino Design, with good friend and savy businessman, Alex Levin.

August, 2007 ⇒
Armed with a full tuition scholarship and a lot of courage I moved to New York City to study graphic design at Parsons, the New School for Design.

August, 2005 – May, 2007 ⇒
While in high school, I chose to spend two years studying Commercial Art at the local Vo-Tech. My teacher, Dennis O'laughlin soon became my mentor and is now my friend.

Strapping Teenager Years ⇒
When I was ten I got my hands on my first sketchbook. Armed with a mechanical pencil I created various life drawings, studies, and imaginative characters.

Little Youngster Years ⇒
Throughout my early childhood I spent countless hours building replicas of the Titanic and various battleships out of Legos, only to take them apart moments later and build something new.

Baby Boy Years ⇒
I met my childhood best friend and next-door neighbor, Jesse Wasson. We both discovered our passion for art together, drawing Sonic the Hedgehog levels and killer robots .

1st Birthday ⇒
I was born on August 1st, 1988 in a small city named Erie in Northwestern Pennsylvania, USA. I grew up in a town of less than two thousand people named Cambridge Springs.

Meet My Friends
Ludvig Bruneau Rossow Sandra Shizuka Philipp Hubert karlssonwilker inc. Catarina Carreiras Andrew Mahon & Zeke Shore Lucas Sharp Andrew Maruska Nikki Kur Erik Carter Sarah Klass Dennis O'laughlin Meryl Vedros