Hi, my name is Ryan.
Hi! My name is Ryan Cox. I am a designer, photographer and doughnut maker based in Reno, Nevada. My friends and family have called me Ryface for most of my life, and you can too if you’d like! But of course I’ll answer to Ryan too!
About my design work
I have always had a passion for art and design. It brings me joy to play a part in bringing my own and others’ ideas and projects to life. I spend a lot of time thinking about design, how to present information in clear, cohesive and creative ways, and nothing makes me happier than to fulfill the needs of a client and exceed their expectations.
Most of my professional design life was spent at a fitness and nutrition company called Black Iron. Black Iron is a label that encompasses several businesses, some now defunct. All were started by the CEO, Krissy Harclerode.
I produced several fitness programs for Black Iron. These programs were the backbone of the early days of Black Iron, and allowed the financing and flexibility for the CEO to start and grow multiple businesses. I take great pride in knowing I played a part as the first employee in leveraging her popularity into multiple successful businesses.
I’ve included covers and excerpts from a selection of e-books I designed for Black Iron. Included are works for Black Iron Gym (RIP), Black Iron Nutrition and Black Iron Training. In addition to workout programs, I have included selected works that are distributed to clients of Black Iron Nutrition as educational tools and value-added bonuses, cookbooks, and motivational works.
My photography
I am interested in chasing beautiful scenes, dramatic lighting and ephemeral moments. This is true whether it’s a wedding, an engagement, a landscape, or a wildfire. For me, photography has always been a creative outlet, but more than that, it has been a way to hold on as moments come and go, like waves on a shore.
Being born on the West Coast, I grew up being used to the summer ambience of smoky skies from wildfires near and far. But it was after my older brother graduated high school and I drove with my family 3 hours to drop him off at a USFS station so he could train to become a wildland firefighter, I began to understand wildfire would become a personal part of my life.
As wildfires have grown in severity and frequency over the past decade, I found myself compelled to document them. Some of them, many of them, are inconsequential. Little blips. An afternoon of work for the pros. But others, at least in the short timeframe of our lives, alter the landscape, the views, and the course of tens of thousands of lives.
