Freelance Illustrator based in Munich Germany.

Steffi Bauer

My artworks combine fragile black lines with aquarelle color and always a hint of natural incidents. Amongst others, I use this as a basic technique. In the next step, I create patterns from my illustrations and continue to develop them into new unique material designs.

Getting together with Lena and Vera from 

 was a real pleasure. Together we worked out the concept for a pattern design that is now the inner fabric of their new great product 

Rappu combines conscious design with functionality. Mission of the girls was it to make it fun and comfortable using your camera every day. Ideal for carrying on daily routines or when traveling - because it's lightweight and doesn't take up space.

The camera case is made of soft but sturdy natural textiles such as Tencel and rhubarb leather. 

 carefully sources all materials and produces locally in Berlin.

Rappu Pattern Design

The Scarf Collection was inspired by our late summer trip to Reggio Emilia in September 2020. We visited an old balsamic vinegar manufactory and stayed in the beautiful, historic villa on site.

It turned out, the sisters running the whole thing, are crazy about roses. So the garden was filled with several rose species, coming in all kinds of shapes and colors. In this inspiring surrounding, I naturally started drawing. Later I found out why our room was called „Gertrude Jekyll“, it is named after a special kind of rose, like all rooms. Also, Gertrude Jekyll was one of the first female garden designers. Yes, they really are crazy about roses.

We got lucky that our friends Amelie and Magnus recommended us this truly unique place called 

 a fashion photographer. The perfect combination to work together on this editorial shoot and remember the great times we each had.

The Rose Scarf Collection

While dealing with the changes during the first months of Covid-19 lockdown in early 2020, the only way out for me was getting creative.

Working within my Capsule for weeks, which was not only the place where we live,but also my inner capsule, my thoughts and fears, was challenging.

The result was a colorful silk Bandana, owerflowing with what was around me: A shopping bag, because in the beginning, what else was there to do than getting something to eat? A motive of a still life, blooming and fading on a summer blanket and two t-shirt designs. The Out of Capsule Collection!

Capsules Collection

During an intense period in my life, I reflected my thoughts and emotions through my creative work. While working, I realized one of the most important things, especially during hard times, was a cozy home for me.

I started painting on old linen sheets and contemporaneously tried some linocuts on paper. These artworks layed the foundation for the design of the Cozy Home Bandana. Printed in London on 100% Cotton. Model: 

The colourful Cozy Home Bandana was shot by 

Cozy Home Bandana

﻿ and I worked out a print design for our collaboration. We decided to reconstruct a project that I created the year before, the 

I adapted the shapes and drawings of the bandana and transformed them into a black and white pattern design. The breakfast skirt and top where especially made for the editiorial we shot together with photographer 

. We also created a beautiful tableware collection. Discover more on 

Breakfast Print Design

The Red and Soil print collection combines simple ornaments with a very complex way to implement a pattern design.

 I created a pattern, which was stamped by hand on 100% recycled Linen and handpainted on verious ceramics. Find the entire collection on 

Red and Soil Print Design

The ability to recognize our own weaknesses as strengths is something most people struggle with. This project conveys a person’s inner conflicts through light floral illustrations of the buttercup, making real chaos look pretty beautiful!

Screenprinted in blue and olive on 100% cotton T-shirts and printed in two different colourways on 100% silk scarves, 55 x 55 cm.

Buttercup Print Collection

Lisbon in May seems like a paradise for people from central europe, still shaken by winter, like me. While visiting the capital of Portugal, I had the impression that only few people are actually living in the city centre. The rest oft he people there were tourists.

Looking at the beautiful empty houses, a poster on the side of the street caught my attention. It was a hand drawn picture of a young man with glasses that said: "Oscar precisa duma casa em Lisboa." – "Oscar needs a home in Lisbon". I was shocked by the ambiguity of this beautiful city, and started to collect more logos, ornaments and drawings. This was the start of "Faces of Lisbon", a pattern design project about finding home. 

Faces of Lisbon 

The idea of this hand painted textile design is to show the way of how our eyes work. In cooperation with the opticians 

 I worked out a concept, which was shown in our exhibition "Beam of Light" in March 2020.

The design of the fabric consists of elements that show the pupil, the retina, rays of light and plants as objects that reflect light. This textile is the main part of the exhibition, apart from it there are 3 different Riso prints.

Film and Photo: 

Beam of Light

Everything in my grandmother's 120-year-old farmhouse bears memories. The ornaments, the shapes of plates, floors and furniture are now turned into new patterns, all screen printed on selected materials.

Her favorite colour, blue, is part of every newly created print. Each piece of clothing came with an individual paper bag including the story of Anne's item and the new pattern created out of it.
"Oldest Anne Blue" is a series of pattern designs which will be continued as long as Anne keeps telling me stories.

Oldest Anne Blue

 asked me to design bedding for their exhibition for 

, we tried to link the design to the act of sleeping.

Melilot is one of the many herbs which can assure a good night’s rest. Illustrated in wild, vibrant colours and printed extensively onto the textile, it doesn't look organic at first glance; something we hoped to achieve for this design.

Melilot Bedding Design

The print design for the AW18/19 collection 'Kala Patthar' was inspired by the grassy plains oft he Himalaya region and their inhabitants.

In collaboration with the Munich-based label A Kind of Guise, I created a pattern design consisting of dragons, clouds and oriental flowers to express the story the brand wanted to tell that season.

Dragon Pattern Design

Projekt Eva is a project of transformation and sustainability. The love of unique and special items is expressed through its individual pattern design. It was developed by Christl Hammerand and me in 2017.

The inspiration is a re-interpretation of the biblical story of Eva, with plants from Eva's garden, an orange as Eva's fruit from the forbidden tree, and several animals and numbers aligning to create a brand-new pattern design.

The project is based on white textile items collected from second hand shops all around Europe. Carefully selected, to ensure the use of only very high-quality garments and perfect clothes for Eva.

Projekt Eva

The Flores Print is inspired by Indonesia's long-admired pattern and textile making traditions. Dot by dot, each rooster on the shirt took shape and began to interact with another one on the fabric.

This design was developed in collaboration with the Munich-based fashion brand A Kind of Guise. For their 2019 Spring/Summer collection, the print design appears not only as a shirt for men, but also as a beautiful floaty dress and blouse for women. 100% silk.

Black Rooster Collection

This collection is based on plain white pieces of clothing, self-designed and self-sewn. The items are made of synthetic tyvek material which created a paintable surface.

I asked the Verena to embrace color and try to draw whatever came to her mind concerning the clothes she was wearing. This is how the unique pattern design was created and completed the collection „Out of the Blue“. Model: 

Out of the Blue

During an intense period in my life, I reflected my thoughts and emotions through my creative work. While working I realized one of the most important things, especially during hard times, was a cozy home for me.
When I found a bale of 40 year old linen in my grandparents basement, I decided to use it as a canvas to transform my mixed feelings into a cozy home collection. It felt so precious, that the only option was to carefully paint on it by hand.

Cozy Home Linen Collection

I developed the Polychrome print design in collaboration with the German fashion brand 

. Inspired by the daily relaxed vibes of Italian camping atmosphere, the collection embodies a summery and laid-back attitude. This graphic pattern design has a very ornamental shape, featuring crisp colours and clean forms.

Polychrome Pattern Design

Inspired by many different daily morning breakfast rituals, the bandana features everything a good breakfast table needs. Illustrated by hand, carefully designed colour range.

Breakfast Bandana

The Palms pattern design was developed in collaboration with the German fashion brand 

. Inspired by the relaxed vibes of Italian camping atmosphere, the collection embodies a summery and laid-back attitude. 

The Palms pattern is made of several painted leaves, all very carefully arranged to form a nonchalant print design and material.

Palms Pattern Design

 AW17/18 collection was inspired by the distinguished and dapper men of Japanese baseball.

Teaming up with the fashion brand, I designed a winter material with illustrations of carp. I combined aquarelle paintings with graphic elements in pastel colors, resulting in a big shoal of fish swimming around a pond, printed on a shirt.

Textile Design

Rappu Pattern Design

The Rose Scarf Collection

Capsules Collection

Cozy Home Bandana

Breakfast Print Design

Red and Soil Print Design

Buttercup Print Collection

Faces of Lisbon

"Oscar precisa duma casa em Lisboa"

Beam of Light

In collaboration w/ Jules & Mel

Oldest Anne Blue

As long as Anne is telling me stories

Melilot Bedding Design

Dragon Pattern Design

A Kind of Guise AW18/19

Projekt Eva

Black Rooster Collection

A Kind of Guise SS19

Out of the Blue

a pattern design creating itself

Cozy Home Linen Collection

Polychrome Pattern Design

A Kind of Guise SS17

Breakfast Bandana

Palms Pattern Design

A Kind of Guise SS17

Nagoya Carps Pattern Design

A Kind of Guise AW17/18