Books and MagazinesMagazines
Wide World of Graffiti
A guide to the art and culture of graffiti from the 1970s to today, as told by the artists themselves. Co-published with the Museum of Graffiti.
Cotemporary Art Underground
The MTA has a huge, diverse art collection installed throughout its various stations. This gathers it up along with sketches, process shots, and thoughtful stories about each artist and their piece.
This Land
This book is a tour of David Opdyke’s massive postcard art mural, with stories and commentary throughout. The jacket that folds out to a poster of the entire artwork.
Michael Heizer
A legend in the Land Art movement, Michael Heizer doesn’t allow his work to be reproduced. This is still a dense, thorough account of the artist's life and work.
Soft Mud, Hard Beauty
The book chronicles Reginald Hough’s career from the early 1960s to 2016 as a pioneer in the use of concrete in modern architecture. It showcases many iconic modern buildings the techniques used to realize them.
The Path of Drawing
Lessons to nurture creativity and mindfulness with step-by-step drawing lessons, mindfulness exercises, and instructive practices.
Fifth Avenue
An architectural tour of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. A follow up to Walking Broadway, below.
Walking Broadway
An architectural tour of the entire length of Broadway. We created maps for the 14 walks and put together an easy-to-use book covering the the history and architecture of New York’s most famous street.
Material Transfers
Explores the use of traditional materials with contemporary forms, and the opposite: contemporary materials applied to traditional forms, and some variations in between.
Japanese House Reinvented
Unusual and innovative architecture from Japan. Each project had tons of images, a story, technical information, floorplans, and a bio of the architect.
Starchitecture
This book investigates why spectacular buildings by star architects get commissioned and procured. A combination of urban studies essays and photography.
Pigeons in the Piazza
An Italian travelogue and personal memoir. Long-form text with many, rich photographic illustrations. The display type is inspired by Venetian street signs.
Convergence
This book celebrates the intersection of art and science with the National Academy of Sciences’ art collection. The art is paired with essays by art and science thought-leaders.
Resilient by Design
Resilient by Design challenged teams of engineers, architects, designers and other experts to combat sea level rise, severe storms, flooding and earthquakes.
Resilient by Design Brief
A thorough brief for the teams participating in the year-long challenge. The book employs infographics and careful information design to clarify the research and guide users to critical and relevant data.
Magazines
MIT Technology Review
We came up with a new structure for the front section, called “Download” which we design each issue. It’s dense with a bunch of varied stories.
Field Notes, from The Urbanist
This is our favorite section in The Urbanist (see above). We try and do something funky and dynamic with the layout each time, but within the magazine’s overall structure.
Urbanist Magazine Covers
Some of our favorites.
The Urbanist Magazine
For SPUR’s monthly magazine, we used a tight but flexible grid and clean typography to accommodate the varied, dense content of each issue.
Momentum Magazine
The member magazine of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. We came up with a new masthead and overall design for the rich, varied magazine.
Dwell Magazine
Shawn Hazen was a member of the staff that started architecture and design magazine Dwell. Here are some favorite layouts.
Table of Contents, Dwell
Each issue used a unique color palette, and the table of contents introduced it through a full page of color, which helped it stand out among the ads.
A few more projects
The Visionary State
Through image and text, this book explores California’s ecclectic spirituality: the unique confluence of eastern, western, and mystical religious ideas and their off-beat manifestations.
Chronicle Books
As a designer at Chronicle Books, Shawn got to work on some fun and funky things. Here’s a few.
Cooper’s Hawk Cookbook
Cooper’s Hawk is a winery with restaurants around the Chicago area. This book gathers recipes from chefs around the country and pairs them with wines.
Apple
A few pieces from the archive.
Smith.ai
White papers and other publications.
