Education
Parsons The New School for Design.
Parsons The New School for Design.
He is the Chief Executive Officer of Big Red Button Entertainment, a video game development studio he co-founded with Jeff Lander in 2009. A graduate of Parson"s School of Design, Rafei was an employee of Naughty Dog, joining them in early 1995 to work on Crash Bandicoot. Other notable works include Jak and Daxter, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
Rafei previously worked on album cover arts for Agricultural and Mechanical Records, most notably Blues Traveler"s Travelers and Thieves.
As art director
Crash Bandicoot (1996)
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997)
Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998)
Crash Team Racing (1999)
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001)
Jak II (2003)
Jak 3 (2004)
Jak X: Combat Racing (2005)
Uncharted: Drake"s Fortune (2007)
As creative director
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (2014).