Tado

Tado are an artist duo based in Sheffield who's work I got introduced to during the Pictoplasma event in Berlin (I had seen their work in the past, but it really caught my eye after the opening exhibition and their conference talk, which I will write about in my main Berlin post).

A lot of Tado's illustrative work has a super clean style that I am a big fan of, using clean lines and awesome colours to create (while the content might not always be) a very cute style, using really cool characters along with this to produce some great work. While they have a very noticeable style, it doesn't stop them from varying quite a bit, While a lot of their work is illustration based, they also create physical models and animations, both of which carry their style well. Some of the models they make are carved out of wood, which creates a really nice aesthetic when combined with the cute style of their illustrations, as seen below, and they even use these models for animation, as seen by the 'Hello Kitty' animation they made.

After Pictoplasma, Tado are now some of my favourite artists, as I am a really big fan of a lot of really clean (in a style sense) 2D illustration, and I hope to continue to see great work from them.