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Posted: 17.5.10 by Sam Meni in Labels:
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TADO are Katie Tang and Mike Doney, a couple, a design business and an amazingly creative art duo. TADO have found success doing exactly what they love doing.

TADO’s character design, illustration and animation work has made them famous internationally. TADO have worked with art directors at some of the world’s largest

advertisement agencies, working for clients as big as MTV, McDonald’s, Sainsbury’s, Vodafone and the World Wildlife Fund.

TADO have over the past decade gotten heavily into designer toys and have worked with Kidrobot many times. They just released there most recent Dunny called Cobbler this month and just last week had a signing at Kidrobot London. They were also recently at the "We Heart Wood" show that I mentioned in my last post.

In an interview with computer arts projects Katie points out that "they once had a phase of putting fangs on everything they drew. Similarly, for a while they gave everything big breasts." Its to no surprise to find that they’ve been influenced by off-beat comic books, metal music and punk. They’d spend afternoons in Forbidden Planet, soaking up characters like Squee from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez(Which I do own a copy off if you'd like to look at it).

Visit TADO here!

References:
We Are TADO (2010). TADO's personal blog, portfolio and shop. Retrieved 17/5/10 from www.tado.co.uk
Kidrobot (2010). Online Urban Vinyl Store. Retrieved 17/5/10 from www.kidrobot.com

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