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.

  22. Pourover practice

    A pourover coffee practice, running since 2015.

    A pourover station — dripper, scale, grinder, and beans on a kitchen counter
    Coffee brewing through a dripper onto a Grace Street Coffee tumbler
    A red Kalita Wave dripper brewing into a glass server on a scale
    Overhead view of the spent coffee bed in a wave filter
    A bag of Hydrangea Coffee Roasters Ethiopian beans held in front of the setup