Consumer hardware
100K+
Units shipped globally through retail, marketplace, and brand channels.
Audio systems, products, and cultural IP
I build things people hear, use, and remember.
John Garfield Wang (王众) is the founder of PILO, creator of the Nike-licensed Run Baby Run®, and a former prime-time anchor at China Radio International. His work moves between consumer hardware, broadcasting, cultural IP, and generative audio systems.
Selected proof
Signal before story.
Design recognition
7
International awards including Red Dot and A'Design Silver.
Licensed IP
36,000
Runners reached at the Shanghai International Marathon with Nike-licensed audio.
Broadcast craft
10,000+
Hours live on air shaping pacing, tone, and audience attention in real time.
What connects the work
From radio studios to shipped products to AI production systems.
Across each chapter, the same discipline keeps showing up: understand human behavior, shape the signal, and make distribution part of the design. The format changes. The operating system does not.
Selected recognition
Red Dot
Wired Germany
CCTV
New York Times
Men's Health
Cosmopolitan
ZhenFund
Emmy Awards
Selected work
Three chapters that define the portfolio.
PILO Sleep System
Bone-conduction audio pillow engineered for sleep, built as a real consumer product, and shipped at meaningful scale.
- 100K+ units shipped globally
- 7 international design awards
- Retail and distribution across Amazon Japan, Brookstone, and Nike stores
Run Baby Run®
A sound-led endurance IP turned into official race infrastructure for the 2016 Shanghai International Marathon.
- Nike Inc. licensed the registered IP
- Official cadence audio used across a 36,000-runner event
- Built a recognizable bridge between performance, rhythm, and brand signal
Broadcasting, editorial work, and AI audio pipelines
From prime-time radio to editorial and artist work, the core skill has always been high-signal communication. Today that discipline extends into generative audio systems for sleep, focus, and performance.
- Prime-time anchor at CRI Hit FM 88.7
- Interviewed global figures across music, sport, and culture
- Now building production-grade AI audio workflows with human QA
Field notes
Proof, in context.
Contact
If your work sits at the intersection of audio, products, and culture, we should talk.
Available for advisory, partnerships, speaking, and selective build collaborations.