Allison Chan is a designer, artist, and food worker from the Pacific Northwest, based in Northern California. About, Contact
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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 with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, a critical cartography and data visualization collective documenting the contours of gentrification and housing dispossession across the US.
Following the foreclosure crisis, corporate consolidation of real estate in the Bay Area has given rise to sweeping evictions and displacement. Real estate investors increasingly conceal their property portfolios behind vast webs of shell companies, further widening the power and information gap between tenants and their landlords.

Evictorbook is a mapping tool that allows San Francisco and Oakland tenants and housing organizers to research properties, evictions, and the corporate networks of ownership behind them. In addition to helping communities curb evictions through multi-building campaigns, this tool is used by local coalitions, advocacy groups, and policy analysts to publish reports and advance tenant protections in the Bay.

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.    
      


2024
Cooked

Product and brand design for Cooked, an end-to-end cooking platform designed to help the pros share their best recipes, and to help anyone become a pro. 
(Stealth, please don’t share!)
Prep like a pro. Mise en place is the first step to nailing a recipe. Make any dish your own with easy substitutions. Find what’s local and in season.  See the right info at the right time. A focused workflow helps you time and nail every step. Even the most complex recipes become easy to follow.  Import recipes like magic. Creators can instantly translate their existing recipe content (videos, media, text) into a rich and intelligent cooking experience.

2024
Ayo Akingbade

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


2022–24
Permanent

Led design for Permanent, a small company working to transition our regional food systems to short-chain, regenerative agriculture. Designed 0 → 1 platforms to help communities, businesses, and institutions source directly from 50+ local, organic, and regenerative farms, mostly owned by women and farmers of color. Pilot customers have ranged from celebrated farm-to-table restaurants, to major food retailers like Sweetgreen, to the University of California System (UC) and K–12 public school districts across California.

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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.

2022
Sandspiel

Sandspiel is a virtual sandbox that lets people of all ages play, paint, and experiment with real-world elements—sand, water, fire, plants, wind, and more. Inspired by sandplay therapy, the natural world, and the early web, Sandspiel offers a gentle sanctuary for expression and enrichment. 

I re-designed Sandspiel's core drawing experience, developed a fun visual identity, and ideated systems for people to program their own cellular automata.
  

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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2016
Visualizing Climate Inequality

A data visualization project mapping key correlations between carbon emissions, climate vulnerability, and capital by country. 

Created in collaboration with scientists at UW Atmospheric Sciences. Data from the World Bank, the UN Development Programme, the ND-GAIN Index, UC Berkeley, and NASA. Recognized by the 2016 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Featured in publications like Courrier International and Interfaces Numériques.