About Chris Rhee

Korean-American designer

Locations

• 2023: Taiwan and California
• 2021–2022: Japan
• 2020: Taiwan and Japan
• 2019: Taiwan and Japan. Short stays in Thailand, Philippines, Guam, and California.
• 2018: Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka
• 2015: Moved back to Portland, Oregon
• 2015: Six months in Taipei, Taiwan
• 2013: Moved to Brooklyn, New York
• 2009: Moved to Portland, Oregon
• Grew up in California’s Bay Area

Work History

In 1998, I started making websites. And never stopped.

At age 17, I founded Neat Focus to became a freelance interface designer. With a tiny team of heavy-hitters, I’ve helped small businesses, bootstrapped teams, venture capital funded startups and Fortune 500 50 corporations.

School History

I cut nearly every class in middle school and high school. With the newfound free time, some talented friends & I collaborated on writing, building websites, recording radio shows and shooting video.

Due to lack of money and abundance of stubbornness, I skipped college and started a business. See Work History.

Stuff I Like

• Music: Tonedeff, Jay-Z, Regina Spektor, Barenaked Ladies
• TV: The Wire, The Sopranos, True Detective, The West Wing, Frasier, QI, Taskmaster, Reply (응답하라) 1988, Running Man (런닝맨)

Stuff I Don’t Like

Coconut.

This Site

• Fonts: DIN for the header & navigation. Adelle for the body text. Sometimes other typefaces are used in custom-designed blog posts.
• Tools: WordPress for the blog, Typekit for custom fonts.

Other Sites

Check my projects page for other sites I work on.

Something Else?

Contact me and ask!