About
Putting ideas into practice
Bauhouse Visual Communications is a one person design studio based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada and owned by Graphic Designer, Stephen Bau. I have been practicing design since 1988 and established the Bauhouse in 1991. The name is not entirely original, but rather a play on words in homage to the influential Bauhaus schools in Germany and Chicago.
The Bauhaus has had a strong aesthetic influence on my design, though I do not have a house style. In fact, much of my design could be considered antithetical to the Modernist ideals of the Bauhaus. As a person of faith, I am both intrigued and disturbed by the high philosophical ideals of Modernism and by the notions of faith propounded in the Bauhaus manifesto of 1919.
I struggle between the sacred and the secular, the east and the west, the altruistic and the commercial, the elitist and the populist, the rare and the common, the modern and the postmodern. I am both and I am neither. Yet all of it informs my identity and my design.
Progressive Tradition
In keeping with the tradition of the Bauhaus, I seek to integrate art and technology as a means of giving back to my community and living out my faith in the God who gave me these abilities.