Shawn Hazen


Royal Bangs
December 24, 2009, 5:25 pm
Filed under: Likes, Music

A crazy, awesome cover illustration. For a crazy, awesome album. Incredible.



Animal Collective
December 23, 2009, 7:03 pm
Filed under: Likes, Music

Until I popped open the full-size “album cover” in iTunes just now, I didn’t realize it was one of these funky optical illusions. It hurts. But I can’t stop looking at it.



Hope this letter makes it in time…
December 19, 2009, 5:19 pm
Filed under: Family, Funny, Kids



Child Labor
December 16, 2009, 12:59 am
Filed under: Events, Family, Projects

Finn designed our Christmas card this year. The project is in the current issue of ReadyMade, actually. Here’s the assembly line: the full forest of printed trees and Finn autographing each one. After these shots, we decorated the trees and then popped them all in the mail today!



Some things never change…
November 30, 2009, 2:24 pm
Filed under: Family, Kids

A big cardboard box is still more fun than all your other toys. This one is a meticulously decorated spaceship.



Something Fishy.
November 27, 2009, 11:57 pm
Filed under: Family, Kids

Busted out the ol’ fisheye lens today while playing with Cormac.

This one is shooting through the fisheye backwards:



School Pictures
November 25, 2009, 12:28 am
Filed under: Family, Kids

He looks like the one who’s always getting in trouble, huh?



Finn’s First “Report Card”
November 17, 2009, 4:43 pm
Filed under: Family, Funny, Kids

We’re proud of him, but not as proud as he is to get this little slip. Very coveted in his preschool class, apparently.



Crazybear
November 8, 2009, 3:21 pm
Filed under: Family, Funny, Kids

By Finn.

finn drawing



How Illustrator Saved My Life…
November 8, 2009, 2:16 am
Filed under: Shawn, Work

…or at least this project. I’ve been stressing out about a logo design. It just wasn’t QUITE there yet. Just now, I went to open up the Illustrator file, and when I selected the file on my desktop, I got that mashed-up Illustrator preview—all the layers at once.

Usually annoying,and a mess, this time, the quirk actually gave me an insight into what a hybrid, amalgam, MASH-UP of my various ideas for the logo would look like, and VOILA!—a better solution!

We’ll see if it turns out to “The One”. More to come…