Summary
Dylan Grinder is a designer and creative lead with 12 years of experience crafting identity, narrative-driven tabletop games, and visual systems for both indie studios and client work. As Co-Lead on Plotweaver’s Project Folio and Lead Designer at Heartheld Games, he blends storytelling sensibilities with disciplined design processes to deliver cohesive settings, branding, and play experiences. His background spans art direction, branding, web front-end, and community-building—skills honed through roles at Brotherwise Games, Cartomancy Games, and as an affiliated Twitch broadcaster. Dylan emphasizes clear client communication and uses his multidisciplinary toolkit to distill complex narratives into striking visual identities and game products. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a novelist’s imagination and a project manager’s rigor to projects that sit at the intersection of story and design.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Graphic Design, Associate’s Degree Graphic Design at City College of San Francisco
English, Italian