Founded in 2006, Hager.Design specializes in athletic footwear design, as well as email and SMS marketing for DTC brands.
Founder and industrial designer, Darin Hager, has over two decades of experience as a footwear designer, email marketing manager, graphic designer, brand owner, and entrepreneur. Clients include Sperry Top-Sider, Hi-Tec Sports, Puma, Reebok, Etonic, Sebago, CAT, US Army Brand, Blackhawk Tactical Group, Original SWAT, OTB, Clarks, Dunham, Category 5 Boat Shoes and since 2007, CEO of Heyday Footwear.
Darin and his prolific body of footwear designs have been featured, profiled and interviewed hundreds of times in print and digital media including Shopify Masters podcast, The Business of E-Commerce podcast, The Unofficial Shopify Podcast with Kurt Elster, Maxim Magazine, and celebrities including Flo-Rida, Jay Sean, Katy Perry, Trey Songz, NFL Indianapolis Colt’s Wide Reciever Rob Turbin, UFC legend Tito Ortiz, WWE Hall of Fame Wrestler Billy Gunn, ID Magazine, The Source, MTV and VH1, Footwear News, Marvel’s Ant-Man, HBO’s True Blood, Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, Fox’s America’s Got Talent, Hypebeast.com, Freshnessmag.com, The Boston Globe, HighSnobiety.com and Playboy.
Hager.Design is now taking on new clients in footwear and e-mail design/marketing.