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

Roguelike games

agave plants

Vespas

North Beach

Framer

One Piece Netflix

Obsidian

Sekiro

Station Eleven

black cats

italian sub research

neon cities

Wimmelbilderbuch

Obsidian

Dave the Diver

Figma

Eleventy

neon signs

Mob Pyscho 100

Hawaiian shirts

Synology

Etsy

Midjourney

Procreate

Polite Society

Evergoods

Pokemon Emerald Rouge

French 79