Shawn Thomas Baudler is a professional graphic and web designer, a novice photographer, and digital artist currently living in Minnesota. Shawn is passionate about art, science, understanding reality, creative writing, and the pursuit of beauty in the modern world through visual arts.

"I Love seeing the simplicity in complexity, and the complexity in simplicity" - STB

Shawn does freelance photography and design, while pursuing many creative, and artistic passions, and hobbies.

History

Shawn has been an artist since childhood. In 2004, after working in various jobs and doing some amateur graphic design, Shawn decided to go back to school to learn the skills to pursue a career in the creative world.

Graduating from Brown College in 2006, Shawn eventually took a graphic design position at Herald Journal Publishing(HJP) in Winsted, MN. After a few years designing advertisements for newspapers, business cards, brochures, signs, and community guidebooks(among other projects) Shawn moved to the printing department, and spent the next couple years learning the ins and outs of digital printing. After a time Shawn returned to the design department, and was driven to return to school to expand into designing for the web.

Three years working 30+ hours at HJP, while attending classes at Ridgewater College in Hutchinson, eventually lead to a Diploma in Web Programming(2014), and a position in the Web Department at HJP.

He has won first(2012) and second place(2011) awards for artistic photography at the Dassel, MN Red Rooster Days Fine Art Contest. And recently has been working as a freelance photographer in addition to his work at HJP.

His entire life Shawn has been artistic. At no point has a sketchbook, notebook, and/or camera not been a precious possession, and some creative endeavor occupying his free time.

Angi Baudler is a life long artist, who recently returned to school to become a professional graphic, and web designer.