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Steven Tachauer

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Creative Director, Designer, Artist. Building soulful brands & visual worlds. Art rooted in myth & nature.
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Spire I, October 2026
Graphite on Paper

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We’ve looked up to find meaning since the beginning. Stars and celestials are a recurring theme in my work, and illuminate layers of ourselves typically overlooked. Study stars when lost.

Collage, graphite, illustration, and fragments from my travels.

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Summer turns toward Autumn, and I’m drawn inward again. A few things surrounding the studio lately: a magic corner, flowers from the garden, graphite studies on paper, Ruth’s scythe in Boaz’s field, and Gibran’s thoughts on work.

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Graphite on paper, 2026

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I’ve always had an affinity for ferns. They are beautifully ancient; living fossils of a much older world. And I’ve always been drawn to things that carry a sense of depth and time.

The way a fern unfurls from a spiral, its leaves multiplying into intricate, densely patterned forms is a reminder that ornamentation is already there in nature.

Drawn in graphite, and formed into pattern on paper.

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I think a lot about the breadth of my practice, and about how, as creatives, we’re often encouraged to distill ourselves into a single discipline, aesthetic, or recognizable output. I’ve never really been interested in doing that.

I work across art, identity, illustration, typography, art direction, curation, and image-making. The mediums change, but my instinct and sensibility is a throughline.

I build worlds through detail, texture, motif, form, colour, materiality, layering, writing, and storytelling. For me, art and design are not separate practices, but different expressions of the same impulse — one that I’ve always known, that is to look closely, make meaning, and craft a world with depth and soul.

These are fragments from my studio. Client work, personal work, studies, artworks, images, and pieces of my practice that continue to shape-shift.

Sharing more of how I see.

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Illustration work for the oceanic world of “Up is Down” for @paisiosmentesidis. Graphite and ink on paper, translated into silver.

With @paisiosmentesidis / @mmalevi / @fabiokraniotis

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Notes from a liminal summer

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Regina Florum — The Flower Queen

Crafting intricate worlds that feel as though they’ve existed long before they’re encountered is central to my work. These visuals hold their own symbology, ornament, and mythology, creating a window to another time and place. Depth across texture, writing, and imagery.

More about this process on Amber Field

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Book Bar has been a sensation from the moment it was announced.

Turns out that, in a moment characterized by digital malaise and social isolation, a beautiful, welcoming space full of books and food and drinks is exactly what people have been craving.

StudioDA work with Book Bar’s founders, Tom and Robin, to build a narrative around the power of books to bring people together. Building on this, we developed a visual identity system that we’ve since rolled out across merch, signage and so much more.

Book Bar is also a fantastic example of the magic that happens when we work with our sister company, @designagency.co. The interiors are spectacular. And the street itself—a revitalized strip of Markham, amidst Mirvish Village, also home to Badiali and Blackbird—is going to be Toronto’s most charming, vibrant commercial strip.

Loved being a part of this. Congrats team @bookbarto!

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The spirit of the solstice.

Litha is rooted, radiant, and deeply connected to the rhythms of the earth. A reminder that we are shaped by cycles, of blooming, abundance, rest, and renewal.

I’ve always been drawn to the old world traditions that honoured the land as a living presence; marking the seasons as a way of remembering our place within the natural world.

This piece reflects on the wise woman archetype — the quiet knowing, beauty, and abundance found in harmony with the natural world.

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