Allison Chan
Designer, artist, and sometimes cook from the Pacific Northwest. Interested in images, software, sculpture, and food.
Select Clients & Collaborators
Ayo Akingbade
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Recidiviz
Sandspiel
Permanent AgricultureIDEO CoLab
NASA JPL
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle Design Festival
Internet.org Google
Cooking
State Bird Provisions, San Francisco
Kamaya, Kamiyama, Japan
Chez Panisse, Berkeley
Joodooboo, Oakland
Ramen Shop, Oakland
Contact
hi@allisonchan.info
@llisonchan
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2025
Tidal Altar

A stoneware vessel embodying life at the soft seams of the earth, where celestial rhythms press the ocean into sand, air salts the wild cabbage, and water keeps the time. Made in Mendocino, CA.






Exhibited at SOIL Gallery in Seattle, alongside: (left to right) Clock Poem by Alex Miller; Lambda and Wing by Max Cerami, Tristan Huber, and Cyrus Cryst; and Inclusions by Shelby Wilson.

2025
Strange Time

Visual identity for Strange Time, a group exhibition showcasing novel meditations on time and timekeeping. On view at SOIL Gallery in Seattle, April 3–25. Curated by Shelby Wilson, Alex Miller, and Max Cerami.




2022–
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Designing maps, websites, and publications for the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, a critical cartography and data visualization collective documenting the contours of gentrification and housing dispossession across the US.

2024
Intifada Incantation

Poster and illustration for a community reading of poems by Palestinian writers or poets in support of Palestinian liberation, including Fady Joudah, Mosab Abu Toha, Noor Hindi, Etel Adnan, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Leena Aboutaleb, Aracelis Girmay, Liane al Ghusain, and many more. Organized by Oakland-based artist, writer, and educator Leena Joshi. Broadcasted on Lower Grand Radio.    
      


2020–
Ocean to Forest, Death to Life

Every year, millions of Pacific salmon migrate back through their ancestral waterways to spawn and die in their natal streams. Retracing the earth’s magnetic and chemical pathways over hundreds of miles, salmon return home to birth new life and pass onto the next. Oceanic phosphorus and nitrogen in their bodies then fertilize the riverbeds, feeding generations of forests and fauna across the Pacific Northwest. In this sacred ritual, death becomes life.

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2024
Ayo Akingbade

Simple website for London-based artist and filmmaker Ayo Akingbade.


2022–2023
Permanent

Product and brand design for Permanent, a small company working to transition our community’s food systems towards short-chain, regenerative agriculture and steward regional food sovereignty.



2022
Joy Woods

Visual identity for Joy Woods, a multi-family farm and community stewarding 15 acres of regenerative agriculture in the Sonoma Creek Watershed.

2019
Time Portraitures

A pair of slow clocks: one that stops when looked at, another submerged in gooey oil. Each loses momentum the more it labors. Dormant at first, a pulse can only be discerned if you give it time and listen closely.

Exhibited at the School for Poetic Computation. Featured in Creative Applications.

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Left: A large, unmarked clock veiled in black velvet. Its face and hands are hidden from view, but a soft ticking can be heard if you listen closely.

Right: the same clock, unveiled. Triggered by a light sensor, the hands stop ticking, and the clock is idle. The current time is unknown.





A smaller, unmarked clock partially filled with mineral oil. With each revolution, the viscosity of the oil slows the hands down. The current time is unknown.

2020
Revolution & Us

A pocket poster and pamphlet to help keep each other safe in the fight to keep us all safe. Co-organized and designed with Zainab Aliyu and By Us For Us, with contributions from a community of organizers, artists, and educators. Distributed by small press for free across New York and the Bay Area.

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