Shawn's work has spanned a wide breadth of industries over the last eighteen years, from Condé Nast to Google, Apple, and Airbnb. He has trained under legendary designers, like Milton Glaser and Stefan Sagmeister. He's also been a part of big business transformations like IBM's implementation of design-thinking at scale and Facebook's forays into the metaverse. Shawn is an Adjunct Professor at the California College of Arts in the graduate Interaction Design program, where he teaches visual design in the Fall and his own class, Futureproof, on creative thinking and speculative design, in the Spring. He also developed a historical walking tour of San Francisco's lost queer nightlife scene, Unspeakable Vice. It examines the origins of queer identity and wonders how it might evolve next.