Ballio

Ballio Chan is a creative director, designer, and artist. Raised in Hong Kong, based in California. He runs Makeshft, a brand and design studio, sells prints and apparel, and is building TheKnow, a taste engine for food and drink. His work spans identities for startups in food, beauty, finance, and technology, campaigns for ESPN, Nike, Disney, and Paramount, concert graphics for Eminem, and led brand and creative for Automattic and WordPress.com.

An ongoing study of taste as a system.

  1. Double Vision

    Two overlapping rings drawn in colored light trails.

    Two prints from the series hang in the gallery wall at Automattic's New York office.

    Two Double Vision prints in a salon-hung gallery wall at Automattic's New York office, Ballio at the edge of the frame