Michael To — Product Designer, Founder & Artist, Hong Kong
About Me
MICHAEL TO — born in 6/11/2009.
Let's skip the small talk. I'm 16, based in Hong Kong, and never have I bought into the whole "wait your turn" thing.
I have came to realize, it's never about how many people are beside you, but how sharp their mindset is. "just enough" is not in my vocabulary, and it sure is not in our team's playbook. This website exists for one sole reason: to link up with doers. Whether you're inviting us in or joining our ride—let's make it count.
I'm am currently deep into two major projects, still running on the same raw drive that started it all.
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Proof of work
Things that shipped
0Clothing pieces printed — t-shirts & co-designed hoodies
0Folders produced — over 6 variants
0Keychains produced (1,500 × 3 batches)
0Banners across 3 Student Union election years
0School souvenir variant for Pui Kiu College — currently developing the other
0Years designing posters & awards for school competitions
0Consecutive wins — art, design, entrepreneurship, hackathons
∞Tote bags, memos, stickers — branding & product design led
1Building design concept, hand-drawn renders
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Notes from the journey
HKU × HKU Shanghai Hackathon
Cross-campus hacking with HKU and HKU Shanghai — ideas, prototypes, and a lot of caffeine.
Car design — pencil sketches
Automotive studies in pencil — proportion, stance, and line before anything digital.
Industrial design — Rhino 8 × Keyshot
Product concepts modelled in Rhino 8 and brought to life with Keyshot renders.
MEP 2026 — Protofeed
Building Protofeed through the MEP 2026 entrepreneurship programme.
CIS Hackathon 2026
Champion, 1st place — another weekend of building, another win.
Grantham Visual Arts Award
Selected as one of ten — a creative journey through Hong Kong art.
Let's get building
location at Dubai Kartdrome
About Me
Dreaming big, from Hong Kong
Despite being stuck in college, I managed to do some things; designing for our school and successfully mass producing prints and products under the name of Pui Kiu and our student union. My Student Union chapter has now closed — three consecutive campaign years, winning twice after an initial loss — and I grew tremendously alongside my teammates. My skill set also caught the attention of my teachers, who guided me into prominent local competitions across fields of design, art, and business.
Another thing I have acknowledged from working as a team for my project groups was the importance of a team, the strength of a team lies not in the number of people, but the quality of their mindset and ability. Thus why this website is here in the first place, for like-minded people like you to join our journey, or for me to join yours.
Teachers love how helpful I am and highly value my skill. I have 7 consecutive wins and those I did with a teammate valued my art and design skills, but also my fast thinking and the flooding amount of ideas.
Because of this, 'just enough' has never been in my vocabulary, and it never will be for our team.
The journey
From pencil to product
Age 9
Began sketching. Pencils, paper, and endless curiosity.
Age 12
Mastered realism — practicing from dusk till dawn, believing the foundation is what supports a future skyscraper.
Student Union
Three consecutive campaign years — winning twice after an initial loss. Mass-produced prints and products under Pui Kiu and the Student Union. That chapter has now ended.
Competitions
Guided by teachers into prominent local competitions across design, art, and business — 7 consecutive wins with teammates.
Now
Driving two major projects — a startup and a concept motorcycle — feeling back to when I was drawing as a kid.
Portfolio Gallery · 18 works
Previous work
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Portfolio
Current projects
I currently am driving two main projects, a startup project and a concept motorcycle that we will put on the road. Since you have happened to stumble across this site or have had the interest and skill, I sincerely invite you to join us if you believe you can bring us value. I am also happy to meet other founders, engineers, designers along the way. We are not looking for any investors to scale up yet. Feel free to connect to exchange ideas and to reach out to me.
Project 02 — Concept
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Terminal 2
Defining electric motorcycles.
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Who we have
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Two years
Industry and academic awards
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Skills
Hobby 01
Arts & Design
Where it all started — sketching since 9, realism by 12, startup at 16. What am I even doing with all these? As Steve Jobs once said: “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” The stars will align.
Move your mouse — particles repel each other, attract to you
Hobby 02
Driving
Sim racing, sim drifting, karting. Whenever I'm behind the wheel I feel like I'm in my own world — all distractions are gone, it's only me, the road, and some traffic. It's a great way to train yourself to see rivals as traffic you have to work your way through, instead of developing a negative feeling towards them.
W A S D to drive — the orange dot marks the front
Hobby 03
Koi Keeping
Selecting and raising tosai koi — sometimes even one-month-old fry. Potential is crucial to spot early in koi: no wasted resources spent on a bad gene — and it's the same for investing. Patience is the key to growing large koi, and the chance for potential to shine — and so it is for scaling large companies. Keeping koi teaches us lessons: slow down, give trust, but not blindly. Also, they just look really beautiful. All my koi are imports from Japan — the Japanese have a great eye and exceptional taste in these carp.
Click / tap the water to drop pellets — move too fast and they flash away
Hobby 04
Dog Keeping
Believe it or not, I don't like all dogs — but I love my dog. Toffee's a cute and cuddly giant teddy bear, super calm and highly tolerant of our family members. With great mass comes great responsibility — getting stepped on is painful.
Click anywhere — a paw reaches out to touch it
