Ryan Arruda Email & Phone Number

Charlton, Massachusetts, United States

New England

⮕ Bay State Design Shop (“BSDS”) is a growing community of New England-area designers, by New England-area designers. With nearly 1,000 members, BSDS is an inclusive gathering spot for all stripes of designers—veteran practitioners, up-and-comers, and greenhorns alike. BSDS is an equitable, pretension-free venue for designers to talk shop, chew the fat, and lend each other a helping hand in their craft. We say Bay State Design Shop as a lively potluck dinner that every creative is invited to.⮕ Regular member-led initiatives include member spotlights on-site and via social media, weekly design challenges, film screenings, highlighting job opportunities, and design critique sessions.⮕ BSDS’ public events have included hosting a 300-person, standing-room only lecture with designer Aaron Draplin at Boston’s District Hall; multiple sold-out design workshops; a charity poster show featuring over two-dozen local designers benefiting Artists for Humanity, plus educational outings to institutions including the Museum of Printing.⮕ As BSDS co-founder, responsibilities have spanned a myriad of roles: administrative, branding design, web design, event coordination, sponsor outreach and fulfillment, merchandise creation, marketing & fulfillment, public speaking & emceeing, and community management.

⮕ Writing & CommunicationsDeveloped a friendly, approachable, and empathetic voice for Dribbble’s communications; authored community-facing updates on product releases and company initiatives; crafted typography-focused educational blog content. Copywriting, editorial curation, and deployment of Dribbble’s five weekly email newsletters. Worked with teammates to develop and deploy on-site messaging for promotional initiatives, events, and sponsored content.⮕ Community Management & Outreach Conceived and implemented Dribbble’s Weekly Warm-Up, an inclusive, low-stress design prompt for the creative community to grow in their craft—together; the program’s 50+ prompts have resulted in thousands of submissions from designers from across the world, as well as a wide swath of creative disciplines. ¶ Point of contact for public-facing community feedback and platform concerns; actively monitored, prioritized, and managed communications through Dribbble’s social channels. Hosted weekly Dribbble Coffee Break on Instagram Live for Dribbble’s 700k followers, featuring designer interviews, company updates, content previews, and community question-and-answer sessions.⮕ Design Event Coordinator & EmceePart of team coordinating logistics for Dribbble’s 700-attendee Hang Time NYC conference at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. Duties included speaker outreach and management, programming development, educational outreach, sourcing artist vendors, scriptwriting, and emceeing the event’s main stage. ¶ Spearheaded logistics, programming, and promotion for Dribbble’s new virtual workshop initiative; kicking off in late-2020, the first three events were filled to capacity—with over 1,000 tickets sold—and featured over 20 hours of educational design programming. Served as event emcee and producer, assisting workshop hosts, managing run-of-show facilitation, and triaging attendee needs.

Woburn, Ma

⮕ Promotional EventsDeveloped quarterly promotions for Fonts.com & MyFonts, including the lauded Fontacular, which brought both record revenue and community accolades. Responsibilities included curating typeface offerings in partnership with participating foundries, creating product collections, crafting the voice for all communications, copywriting and creation of email & social promotion, managing external contract designers, and fostering collaborations with design-community partners, including Mama’s Sauce, Oxford Pennant, Cotton Bureau and French Paper Co.⮕ Writing & CommunicationsManaged Fonts.com blog, including editing & publishing submissions from regular contributor; authored original content for product releases and promotional events. Produced weekly typographic promotional newsletters, including product curation, merchandizing, editing, and publishing. Authored educational articles and provided subject matter expert commentary for design industry publications. Conceived and executed "My Favorite Five", an illustrative human-interest newsletter interview series, featuring designer spotlights, typeface recommendations, and educational design tips.⮕ Design Meetups & Community BuildingResponsible for planning, hosting, and emceeing interactive design events, at Monotype headquarters as well as other Boston-area creative venues. Represented Monotype & MyFonts at industry conferences, including TypeCon and Creative South.⮕ Art Direction & DesignManaged external contract designers for all regular promotions, newsletters, and cornerstone events. Lead the Fonts.com Hero Image program, a design initiative which commissioned over 150 expressive typographic specimens, showcasing veteran and up-and-coming designers, illustrators, and typographers on Fonts.com’s masthead.Responsible for crafting imagery and typographic specimens for promotional events, flash sales, newsletters, and for supporting quarterly cornerstone promotions—including Fontacular.

Woburn, Ma

Framingham, Ma

⮕Taught a semester of ”Graphic Design One: Typography“ + ”Graphic Design Two: Type, Image, & Identity” in the Art Department at Framingham State University. ⮕ Lectured students on fundamental and advanced design topics, assigned custom-developed design projects over the course of the semester—including letterform design, storytelling with type and image, as well as DIY publication design—and led class critique during each project phase.

⮕ Stationery and invitation design; product catalog design. Responsible for creating mockups, production-ready art, die-lines, overseeing in-house proofing and external press checks. Also represented company at industry events and trade shows.

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

⮕ Art direction & design for New England-area documentary production company. Created marketing collateral, merchandise, packaging design, and opening title sequence for locally-acclaimed documentary film “You Must Be This Tall: The Story of Rocky Point Park”; crafted collateral for Midway’s subsequent documentary releases “On The Lake: Life and Love in a Distant Place” and “Behind the Hedgerow.”

Master Of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Graphic Design

Bachelor'S Degree, Film Studies