Peter Ryan is a web designer living and working in Washington, DC.

He graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2006 and spent a few years at a new media startup in Virginia on the editorial side before returning to school for a degree in graphic design. Now he designs and builds web applications at Symplicity.

Contact Peter at peter.andrew.ryan@gmail.com

Professional Experience

August 2009 - Present

Symplicity Corporation | Arlington, VA

  • Graphic design, illustration and art direction for career services and student government infrastructure systems deployed at hundreds of universities
  • HTML, CSS, PHP and javascript for Symplicity product web sites
  • User interface design
April 2009 - Present

Freelance Graphic Design | Washington, DC

  • Graphic design, illustration and art direction
  • Logo, identity creation and branding
  • Blog and web site design, creation and development
July 2006 - August 2009

The Health Central Network | Arlington, VA

  • Managed writers, content and budgets for web sites focused on health topics
  • Wireframed and designed an email newsletter system reaching over one million users on a weekly basis
  • Created graphical templates for downloadable PDF health guides and promotional ad units

Education

October 2009

Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts | Washington, DC

  • Certificate in Graphic Design
May 2006

Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD

  • BA in Writing Seminars

Skills

  • Adobe Create Suite
  • Wireframing and user experience design
  • Illustration
  • PHP
  • HTML and CSS
  • Javascript
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This site was built using FRAME, a php framework written from scratch. You can read more about how the framework's features are progressing. This site is also responsive.

Proxima Nova is the type used all over this site. Fonts are served by Typekit.