Design makes things better.
Almost any thing. A poster, a website, an entire brand—they all benefit from being thoughtfully designed. We use visual design to create personalities for all these kinds of things. Personality makes it better: captures attention better, tells a story better—it’s just better.
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Recent Work

Napa Valley Osteopathic Medicine
Just wrapped up work for this doctor’s office. The client wanted to emphasize the human approach to therapy and the osteopathic principle of a tide flowing through the body.

The Big Picture Deck
The YMCA of the USA is headquartered here in Chicago and Hazen had the opportunity to help them out on a number of pieces during their mssive redesign. This is one of our favorites. See the case study.

Wildcat Golf Academy Logo
This academy for competitive junior golfers takes its name from the mascot of Northwestern University where the school lives. And though numerous wildcat symbols and other ideas were explored, this simple and fun bouncing W won out in the end!

Gudrun König Identity
Just completed this logo for a specialist in IT Project Management in Berlin. Shown is a detail of the business cards. More to come.
What’s Happening
Speaking at Re:Design
Shawn will be leading a session at the Re:Design conference for creative directors in November. Looking forward to good company and cool surroundings in Palm Springs.
Handmade Type Book
Shawn wrote two How-To tutorials for this new book and has a few projects featured. Can't wait to actually see it!
And HOW!
Shawn will be introducing a couple of the speakers at this year’s HOW Design Conference here in Chicago. June 24th to 27th.