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Category
YG21
Annual ID
YG21_Bugden_0

Ryan Bugden
Type & Graphic Designer
Hometown: Silver Spring, MDCurrent City: Brooklyn, NY
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Ryan Bugden is an independent typeface designer and graphic designer based in Brooklyn. He runs design studio R&M with his partner Michelle Ando, releases typefaces through Future Fonts, teaches typeface design through his own Type Sessions, and is an adjunct professor of typography at SVA. Before receiving his master’s at Type and Media in 2019, he studied graphic design at RISD and typeface design at Type@Cooper.
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RISD
Seal Designer: Ryan Bugden
Creative Director: Andrea Trabucco-Campos
Executive Creative Director: Ryan Moore
Design Director: Dylan Mulvaney
Identity Design: Andrea Trabucco-Campos, Dylan Mulvaney, Lea Loo
Motion Design: Aanvik Singh, John Choi



















Title
RISD
Agency
Ryan Bugden
Client
YG21 | Ryan Bugden
Annual ID
YG21_Bugden_10
Category
2023 YG Work: YG21
CLIENT
RISD
ROLE IN PROJECT
Typeface designer; designed and engineered these custom typefaces, redrew the RISD seal, and built the custom tools necessary for the creation of the aforementioned. During the process of sketching for this project, I amassed over 100 prototype fonts.
PROJECT CREDITS
Type Designer: Ryan BugdenSeal Designer: Ryan Bugden
Creative Director: Andrea Trabucco-Campos
Executive Creative Director: Ryan Moore
Design Director: Dylan Mulvaney
Identity Design: Andrea Trabucco-Campos, Dylan Mulvaney, Lea Loo
Motion Design: Aanvik Singh, John Choi
Instacart Sans & Instacart Contrast
Creative Director: Daniel Renda
Associate Creative Director: Jess Yan
Design Team: Colin Kinsley, Vanessa Hopkins, Nicholas Samendinger













Title
Instacart Sans & Instacart Contrast
Agency
Ryan Bugden
Client
YG21 | Ryan Bugden
Annual ID
YG21_Bugden_20
Category
2023 YG Work: YG21
CLIENT
Instacart
ROLE IN PROJECT
Typeface designer, integral to the branding process, iterating on, designing, and producing these custom typefaces, as well as collaborating on the design of the symbol.
PROJECT CREDITS
Type designer: Ryan BugdenCreative Director: Daniel Renda
Associate Creative Director: Jess Yan
Design Team: Colin Kinsley, Vanessa Hopkins, Nicholas Samendinger
Institute of Design
Type design: Joseph Han, Sanuk Kim, Jingqi Fan, Ryan Bugden / COLLINS
Identity: Joseph Han, Sanuk Kim, Jingqi Fan / COLLINS
Motion: Eric Park / COLLINS













Title
Institute of Design
Agency
Ryan Bugden
Client
YG21 | Ryan Bugden
Annual ID
YG21_Bugden_30
Category
2023 YG Work: YG21
CLIENT
Institute of Design
ROLE IN PROJECT
Type design and engineering: refinement, production, and engineering of the modular type family and resulting wordmark. I built out various widths of each letter, as well as levels of deconstruction throughout the family, resulting in several hundred glyph variations and a font family of 5 styles.
PROJECT CREDITS
Type production & engineering: Ryan Bugden / COLLINSType design: Joseph Han, Sanuk Kim, Jingqi Fan, Ryan Bugden / COLLINS
Identity: Joseph Han, Sanuk Kim, Jingqi Fan / COLLINS
Motion: Eric Park / COLLINS
Strawberry Western
Type design: Ryan Bugden
Photography: Yulia Zinshtein












Title
Strawberry Western
Agency
Ryan Bugden
Client
YG21 | Ryan Bugden
Annual ID
YG21_Bugden_40
Category
2023 YG Work: YG21
CLIENT
Strawberry Western
ROLE IN PROJECT
I designed the identity system, including: two language-versions of the wordmark, three optical sizes of the wordmark, two custom type families (serif family with 7 optical-size styles, and display outline based on wordmark), color palette, graphic elements, etc.
PROJECT CREDITS
Design & motion: Ryan BugdenType design: Ryan Bugden
Photography: Yulia Zinshtein
Spec
Master Course Instructors: Erik van Blokland, Peter Verheul, Paul van der Laan, Peter Biľak, Françoise Berserik, Frank Grießhammer, Fred Smeijers, Just van Rossum, Petr van Blokland













Title
Spec
Agency
Ryan Bugden
Client
YG21 | Ryan Bugden
Annual ID
YG21_Bugden_50
Category
2023 YG Work: YG21
CLIENT
Personal Project
ROLE IN PROJECT
Spec is my graduation project from the Master TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague.
PROJECT CREDITS
Type design, production, engineering: Ryan BugdenMaster Course Instructors: Erik van Blokland, Peter Verheul, Paul van der Laan, Peter Biľak, Françoise Berserik, Frank Grießhammer, Fred Smeijers, Just van Rossum, Petr van Blokland
Arcane
Designers: Ryan Bugden, Julen Saenz / COLLINS
Design Director: Jump Jirakaweekul / COLLINS
Motion designers: Eric Park, Manuel Martin / COLLINS
Creative Director: Brian Collins / COLLINS
















Title
Arcane
Agency
Ryan Bugden
Client
YG21 | Ryan Bugden
Annual ID
YG21_Bugden_60
Category
2023 YG Work: YG21
CLIENT
Riot Games
ROLE IN PROJECT
Senior designer & typeface designer. Conceiver of and designed the identity system in collaboration with Jump and Julen, hand-drew custom Zaun frames, and designed the custom display typeface.
PROJECT CREDITS
Type Designer: Ryan Bugden / COLLINSDesigners: Ryan Bugden, Julen Saenz / COLLINS
Design Director: Jump Jirakaweekul / COLLINS
Motion designers: Eric Park, Manuel Martin / COLLINS
Creative Director: Brian Collins / COLLINS
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