Hi / Hola / 你好

Thanks for stopping by. I’m Ry Jones, a Designer turned Art Director who’s been combining technical savvy with aesthetic passion to provide all manner of design solutions for over a decade.

As a self-styled generalist, I’ve had the pleasure of working on apparel, branding, editorial, education, illustration, marketing, motion, UI, and web design/admin projects for clients around the world.

As a former expat and English teacher by day and freelance designer by night, I’m as comfortable leading classrooms as I am creative teams, with an emphasis on appreciating all perspectives, enabling friction-free communication, leaving ego at the door, and getting results in any scenario.

I’m driven by an obsessive-compulsive desire to ride the latest wave of technology as a tool and chasing the muse to solve for X in serendipitous ways. Lately, that’s manifested as harnessing AI to craft killer campaign materials with minimal budget that outperforms expectations, as well as innovating with Figma to construct insanely efficient ad production design systems.

When not waxing poetic about how design is literally everything, I’m probably on a motorcycle or planning an escape route to the next expat destination.

For more buzzwords and bullet points, scan my resume and/or connect on LinkedIn.

For the TLDR life story in gif format, keep scrolling and have a good one!