Ryan Waller earned his BFA in Graphic Design from RISD in 2003 and his MFA from Yale in 2009. After a Fulbright fellowship in Switzerland, he co-founded Other Means studio in Brooklyn with Gary Fogelson and Phil Lubliner. In 2013, they launched Typography Summer School in New York. He has taught, lectured, or workshopped at California Institute of the Arts, Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard), Cornell University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne ECAL, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Maryland Institute College Of Art, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Virginia Commonwealth University, Werkplaats Typografie, and Yale.