Thank you for visiting The Flavor. The Flavor as a site has been kicking around since 1997 when Shawn Hazen bought the URL. It’s gone through many phases but has finally found its true calling as a venue for the designy things Shawn comes across. It strays from pure “Design” occasionally into the nebulous area of “things that interest designers”, and hopefully it’ll interest you.

Shawn Hazen is the principal at Hazen Creative, Inc., a brand and communication design studio in Chicago. He came to Chicago in 2006 to join the Chicago branding agency Remedy as their Design Director. He’d spent the previous three years as an art director at Apple. Before Apple, Shawn worked in publishing for quite awhile–first as an art director and designer at pop-culture publisher, Chronicle Books, and then as a founding designer for architecture magazine, Dwell. His first gig out of school was with MetaDesign. Feel free to email Shawn.

When at Chronicle Books, Shawn met his wife Lisa Baggerman Hazen, a designer, writer, and marketing specialist, who also occasionally contributes to The Flavor.

Shawn also created Chicagotype.com, where he documents the eclectic world of commercial typography in Chicago.

Thanks to WordPress.com for being the best web publishing platform. This site is a crazily stripped-down version of the theme “Sapphire” by Michael Martine.

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