Jackie Tahara is the designer behind UnBlink Studio, based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. A surface pattern designer and illustrator, she produces an extensive portfolio spanning home decor, wallpaper, textiles, apparel, tech accessories, stationery, and wall art. Tahara operates on a licensing model and has been featured in major industry publications and shown work at international trade events.

Tahara's work draws on a wide frame of reference: retro pattern design from the 1950s-70s, the Japandi aesthetic, and the textiles and craft traditions encountered through extensive international travel - Indonesian batiks, Japanese kimonos, Middle Eastern tile-work, aloha shirts, Mexican folk art, and indigo dyeing traditions. The portfolio features a range spanning botanical florals, fauna-based novelty prints, and abstract motifs, with warmth and vibrancy characteristic of vintage-influenced work.

Works in both digital illustration and traditional media. Design categories include flora, tropicals, fauna, abstracts, geometrics, kitchen and food, novelty, and lettering. Portfolio spans 10+ distinct design categories across over 50 designs on Spoonflower.

Designs primarily for home decor, wallpaper, textiles, apparel, tech accessories, stationery, and wall art. Wallpaper designs appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival through an ongoing collaboration with celebrity photographer Chris Chapman (TIFF 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025). Operates on a flat-fee licensing model with optional royalties; bulk licensing discounts available for five or more designs.

Tahara founded UnBlink Studio in Victoria, BC, working from a garden studio. Her practice is driven by global observation - she has won multiple public art competitions and her work has been included in several public art projects. The studio name reflects a philosophy of open-eyed creative attention: studying something beautiful, or drifting into deep creative thought.

Portfolio is broad: flora, tropicals, fauna, abstracts and geometrics, kitchen and food, novelty and special occasions, young at heart, lettering, and graphic T-shirt designs. The portfolio features botanical, fauna-based, and mid-century-influenced patterns. The TIFF collaboration positions her wallpaper work in a premium cultural context.