James Ramsey is the scuba-diving, fossil-hunting, slide guitar-picking, origami-folding founder of RAAD and creator of the Lowline.
James studied architecture at Yale University, where he won a Bates Fellowship to study gothic cathedrals. James worked as a satellite engineer for NASA, where he was a part of the team that created the Pluto-bound New Horizons and the Saturn-bound Cassini satellites.
James founded RAAD in 2004. He has taught at Parsons School of Design, taught and lectured at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, the Kremlin, and the South Korean Congress. Although starring in a Range Rover commercial for the New Yorker was cool and all, his greatest achievement was an appearance on “Liquid Science",” a tv show hosted by the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA.
James was born on the Upper West Side to a mother from Seoul and a father from the valleys of Tennessee. He moved with his family to Kyoto when he was one year old, where his first words were in (now forgotten) Japanese. Back in NYC, he starred on Sesame Street, where he helped the beloved Jim Henson puppets teach kids how to read. James now splits his time between Tribeca and Tennessee.