Santos: Dog of ACTION!
Saturday March 26th 2011, 8:25 am
Filed under: Family,Funny,Kids

In spite of this impressive display, none of these balls were caught.



Trip to Hamilton Wood Type
Monday March 14th 2011, 9:00 am
Filed under: Events,Likes,Projects,Shawn

Me and 8 other designerds got full run of the press room at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum this weekend. It was amazing.

hamilton wood type museum two rivers wisconsin

 

shawn hazen at Hamilton printing on a show card press

Above is me printing this:

design is a verb, wood type, hamilton

 

hamilton wood type museum, large wood type letters, finn and cormac hazen

Above is a composition representing tall, skinny Finn and little Cormac. The left image is the F locked-up for the first pass.

 

shawn hazen, abstract composition, letter i, wood type hamilton

Above is a few of our finished pieces. The middle abstract bars is mine.

Couple other things I did:

modern, wood type

 

less is more, least is most, pink paper, wood type, shawn hazen, hamilton wood type museum

The one above is a detail of a small phrase on a large piece of pink paper.



Yesterday’s Haul
Sunday March 06th 2011, 10:41 am
Filed under: Events,Likes,Projects,Shawn

From the Open Books “Open Box” sale. $30 for a box crammed with as much stuff as you can fit. It was awesome. You’ll be seeing this stuff make its way up to BookWorship.com soon!

open books chicago, open box sale, used book stores, bookworship.com, book worship



Robot City Workshop
Saturday March 05th 2011, 5:57 pm
Filed under: Events,Friends,Kids,Likes

Finn’s friend Reid had his birthday party at Robot City Workshop today. Can’t believe it was the first time we went there.

 

Lots of honest-to-goodness robot parts. And an easier project for the kids:

 

 

The strobe light-fueled Robot Dance Party was good:

 

But the robot bringing in the cake (an old Omnibot 2000) was the best part: