Patent Pending Industries is made up of Jeff Kleinsmith and Jesse LeDoux.

Jeff Kleinsmith is one of Seattle's most innovative designers. Besides being the long-time art director for Sub Pop Records, Kleinsmith is a celebrated freelance designer and graphics entrepreneur, producing among other works, hundreds of concert posters for as many bands.

Jesse LeDoux Working over seven years as an art director and designer for Seattle-based Sub Pop Records and founding member of Patent Pending Design, LeDoux created iconic album and poster artwork for such artists such as The Shins, Iron and Wine, and Hot Hot Heat before launching his own illustration/design firm LeDouxville, in 2004. With work in the permanent collection at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, his art has been exhibited nationwide and abroad. A Grammy Awards nominee, LeDoux currently works out of his studio in Providence, RI, where he continues to combine his avant-garde design sensibility with the basics, “pens, pencils and a few sheets of paper.”