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Besides working for a wide range of commercial clients and newspapers, he exhibits his personal work and also teaches.  \r\n\r\nTaxali's distinctive cartoon-like illustrations have appeared in national magazines, print and television advertisements, and on packaging from CD covers to wine labels.  Taxali has won over 100 awards, including the Society of Illustrators 43, the National Magazine Awards (2002) and the Advertising and Design Club of Canada Awards (2002).\r\n\r\nHe experiments with different textures and media, sometimes using rubber stamps made from his drawings.  Old book covers and paper reappear as canvases, with evidence of their former use deliberately exposed.  He told Pixelsurgeon, 'I began cutting apart and collaging old tearsheets of mine to create new pictures. There was a spontaneous, raw and tactile reaction I had ... 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