About

Howdy! I'm Ray Yuen, a senior brand designer based in San Francisco.

I've worked at startups like NextLesson, medium-sized enterprises like Quantcast, and industry leaders like The Pokemon Company International where I've successfully launched products and design systems and run design teams.

Now

Building an Etsy biz with AI generated art.
Helping a friend with her live painting business and website.
Learning conversational Cantonese.
Tinkering with 11ty for building simple websites.
Reading Mob Psycho 100.
Growing lemon trees and propagating monstera plants.

Updated: Dec 2023

Past

Participated in Inktober!
Went to NOLA in April, NYC in June.
Illustrated 2 children's books, Tiger Tiger and Monkey Mo.
Drew caricatures at Six Flags Great Adventure.
Made Darth Pickle, where I host code projects
Studied Graphic Design at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Grew up in NJ, lived in Rochester and Brooklyn.
Can solve a Rubik's Cube >1m.
Pandemic hobby: sewing pouches.

Things Making Me Happy

North Beach

Eleventy

Mob Pyscho 100

Midjourney

Framer

Roguelike games

Pokemon Emerald Rouge

Station Eleven

French 79

One Piece Netflix

agave plants

Obsidian

Evergoods

black cats

Dave the Diver

Wimmelbilderbuch

Synology

Polite Society

Figma

italian sub research

Vespas

Hawaiian shirts

Obsidian

Procreate

neon cities

Sekiro

neon signs

Etsy