About
Sól Déore is a creative design and writing studio.
We produce and sell prints, publications, and paraphernalia designed to exercise intelligence, inspire creativity, energise imagination, and awaken wisdom.*
Our exclusive designs are made by an Australian artist. We are a 100% Australian owned and operated business.
We ship within Australia, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom. We prioritise local manufacturing and ethically-sourced materials, for faster, cheaper, sustainable shipping.
Sól Déore [pronounced sole-dee-or-ray] means ‘Sun Stag’ in Old English and is a symbol of nature’s majesty.
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Prints
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Paraphernalia
The quest for meaning
Our products explore the perennial truths of existence, nature, and consciousness through deep research, creative design, and imagination. We don’t make any claim to final truths—our work is an ongoing journey of discovery.
We explore open-ended, novel possibilities of nature’s wonderment through mathematical patterns and evocative aesthetics. We aim to stir the imagination of our viewers and readers, to expand perspectives and evoke transformative experiences.
In a world of fragmented information, immersive experience and deep reflection are hard to come by. Our products are designed to foster deeper awareness and promote timeless insights—they are tools for awakening creative intelligence, for living an integrated life in a dynamic world.
Disintegrated cultures and disconnected communities need common elements by which to connect and grow. We tap into the perennial patterns of nature, of symbols and geometries, of deep philosophies and compelling literature, mathematics, history, art, and psychology, in order to build meaningful common bridges and thresholds for transformation. Through words and imagery, we seek to explore an integrated language of timeless culture. Our products are for those with a passion for enquiry, a longing to fulfil their potential, and a wish for a better world.
We get it—the world is full of inauthentic people and exploitative agendas, overhyped fads and shallow distractions. There is much glitter and dust across the material, political, and spiritual domains. So we want to be honest. As a creative design and writing studio, we operate as a business that aims to provide excellent products that benefit our customers, and in doing so earn our livelihood. We also want to ground our work in authentic understanding—the kind that comes from deep enduring enquiry into human existence, nature, mathematics, and other substantive fields of knowledge. We’ve done the work, but we don’t pretend to have all the answers. By blending art with knowledge, we present open-ended experiences for immersion, self-reflection, and transformation.
How our customers apply the transformative gains from our products depends upon their unique circumstances. We can only hope our products will stir thoughtful, creative, and practical insights within the various contexts of people’s immediate lives and thereby catalyse wise solutions toward the problems we all face as human beings. We want our products to exercise intelligence, inspire creativity, energise imagination, and awaken wisdom.*
Humanity is at an evolutionary crossroads between the ancient past and the emerging future. This presents both opportunities and dangers, as we struggle with who we are and who we imagine we can become. At this lively confluence, Sól Déore provides emerging wisdom tools for the ancient future, to inspire and illuminate humanity.
Dr Todd William Dearing
Founder
Principle Writer and Designer
Todd is the Founder and Principal Writer and Designer of Sól Déore, and Founder and Director of Genius Authoring, a professional document services business. He holds a PhD in English and First-class Honours in Art History. He is a member of the Australian Society for Technical Communication (ASTC). He has extensive experience as a writer, designer, entrepreneur, researcher, analyst, editor, and teacher across several industries.
Following the call to pursue his greater potential from an early age, Todd has dedicated his life to self-development and polymathic learning. As an experienced artist with a deep drive for entrepreneurial endeavours, an insatiable curiosity about the world, and a lifelong practice of meditation, he integrates creativity, logic, spirituality and pragmatism in the quest to actualise full human potential.
His work explores nature, human genius, geometry, language, and numerous other areas. And just as nature in its beauty and power encompasses all the world, so his work seeks to communicate open-ended perspectives that evoke our deeper human faculties for self-transformation. Behind this effort is the wish that humanity awakens a little wisdom.