About Chris Rhee

A 35-year-old designer.

Locations

• 2021: Japan
• 2020: Taiwan and Japan
• 2019: Taiwan and Japan. Short visits to Thailand, Philippines, Guam, and California.
• 2018: Six months in 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, becoming 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, Illmaculate, Kanye West, Esthero, Regina Spektor, Barenaked Ladies
• TV: The Wire, The Sopranos, True Detective, The West Wing, Frasier, Peep Show, QI, Taskmaster

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!