About

TAR Studio is a San Francisco-based design studio founded by designer Todd Richards, a visual storyteller with a reputation for idea driven design, distilling often difficult to understand concepts into surprisingly simple and engaging formats. The studio works on a broad range of visual communication commissions encompassing corporate design, brand identities, editorial & book design, event & exhibition design, and packaging.

Contact

TAR Studio
1403 Lyon Street
San Francisco
California 94115

+1 415 678 7509
todd@tarstudio.com

Clients

AIGA
Affymetrix
Amgen
Apostrophe
Applied Materials
Art Metropole
Autodesk
BASF
Brown-Forman
Deborah Schwartz Represents
Del Monte Foods
de Young Museum
Dwight Eschliman Photography
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Fosters Group
Frog Design
Geron Corporation
Herman Miller
Honmura An, Tokyo
HP
Intuituve Surgical
Japonesque Gallery
Kallista
Kohler
Legion of Honor Museum
MCA Records Canada
McCarter & English
McKesson
McKesson Foundation
McGuire Furniture
Mohawk Fine Papers
Mon Cousin Belge
Morrison Foerster
Nektar Therapeutics
Oacis Healthcare
Object Assembly
Oracle
Pain Therapeutics
Penguin Publishing
Peter Bellamy Photography
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Quebecor World MIL Inc.
Rogers Communications
Samsung
The San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Jazz Festival
SciClone Pharmaceuticals
Sebastiani Vineyards
Serbin Communications
Slide Lounge
The Society of Graphic
Designers of Canada
Symmetricom
TED
Townsend & Townsend & Crew
Urban A+O Architects
VMware
Warner Bros. Inc.
XOMA
Yellow Roadway
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Awards

Addy Awards, San Francisco
Advertising and Design Club of Canada, Toronto
American Center for Design, Chicago
American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York
Applied Arts Magazine, Toronto
AR100, New York
Art Directors Club, New York
Black Book Awards, New York
British Design and Art Direction, London
Coupe Magazine, Toronto
Creative Review, London
Critique Magazine, Los Angeles
The Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Awards
Communication Arts, Palo Alto CA
Graphis, New York
How Magazine, Cincinnati
I.D. Magazine, New York
London International Advertising Awards
New York Festivals Print and Advertising Awards
The One Show, New York
Photo District News, New York
Print Magazine, New York
Society of Publication Designers, New York
STEP Inside Design Magazine, New York
Studio Magazine, Toronto
Type Directors Club, New York
Western Art Directors Club, San Francisco

Published

ADDY Awards
The Advertising and Design Club of Canada
AIGA 365
AIGA Communication Graphics
The American Center for Design Annuals
The Annual American Photography Annuals
Applied Arts Magazine, Canada
AR100 Annuals
Art Director’s Club Annuals
Art Directors Club of Toronto
Best of Brochure Design
British Design and Art Direction
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of
Architecture and Design
Communication Arts Magazine and Design Annuals
Coupe Magazine Design Annuals, Canada
Creative Review Magazine, London
Critique Magazine, The Big Crit
Geschaftsberichte finest facts and figures,
the definitive work for the conception and
design of annual reports
Graphis Magazine and Annuals
Graphis Photo Annuals
Graphic Design USA
How Magazine and Annuals
I.D. Magazine and Annuals
International ARC Awards
International Brand Packaging Awards
London International Advertising Directory
Mead Annual Report Show
Mohawk Show
National AIDS Memorial Competition
.net Magazine, UK
New York Festivals Annual
One & Two Color Graphics
One Hundred Show
One Show Annual
Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic
Revolution at Exit Art, New York
Photo District News PIX Magazine
Potlatch Annual Report Show
Print Magazine and Annuals
Printing Industries of America
Society of Publication Designers Annuals
Step Inside Design Magazine and Annuals
Studio Magazine and Annuals, Canada
Type Directors Club Annuals
Web Site Design Awards
West Coast Show