Oh By Tweedy!! Gola by TADO Summer 2013 Pt 2

wearetado — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:18:30 +0000

By golly. What on earth is that horrible racket?!
Why it’s that awful Welfed character again, galavanting about the English countryside on his motorbicycle! What a terrible cad!
After the riotous colour of the last post, here’s something much more green and pleasant. A special micro-collection of Gola by TADO bags to celebrate Great British daftness and yummy chumminess! Available online now. Huzzah and Tallyho!!

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Surf’s Up!! Gola by TADO Summer 2013! Pt 1

wearetado — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:22:10 +0000

We’ve got a whole load of exciting new Gola stuff to share with you guys this week. Here’s the first mini-collection, Surf’s Up! for summer 2013!
Available now from the Gola website and retailers worldwide!
Keep an eye on the blog and Facebook, we’ll be updating with more Gola-goodies over the next few days!

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Steel City Downhill 2013!

wearetado — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:14:33 +0000

Saturday was the annual ‘Peaty’s Steel City Downhill’ event here in Sheffield and we were super proud to be involved with things again! Here’s a pic of the medals we designed and made for this years event, along with a pic of the man himself Mr Steve Peat and a fantastic little edit by the guys at X-Trails films. Congrats to all the riders who took part and everyone involved for a fantastic event. Thank you very much for inviting us to be part of things again!

For more info on the event, what it’s about and what it means for cycling in Sheffield and the Peaks, check out the Steel City Series page and keep an eye on This Is Sheffield for all things awesome going on in the hills.

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YUB YUB! Ewoks at Gallery Nucleus!!

wearetado — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:46:01 +0000

Gallery Nucleus are continuing their series of AMAZING tribute shows with ‘Saga in The Stars: A Tribute to a Galaxy Far Far Away’, and we are over the moon to be part of it. Our pieces for the show are an edition of hand made paperclay originals, based on the infamous Ewoks!
The show opens on May the Fouth (of course!) but the pieces will be available via the Gallery Nucleus website, and you can sign up for the online preview which will begin on May 3rd, and see full details about the show here.
YUB YUB WUBITTY WUB!

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Beermat Characters at The Coningsby Gallery!

wearetado — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:44:09 +0000

Over 100 different artists, illustrators and designers have contributed to the Beermat Characters exhibition, curated by our firends at InkyGoodness and opening tonight at the very snazzy Coningsby Gallery in London Town!
There’s some fantastic work available as part of the show, you can check out updates from the evening on the InkyGoodness Facebook page and in the meantime, here’s a wee peek at our submission – we hope you guys like it!

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Miss Panda Super Idol Pre-Order!

wearetado — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:24:57 +0000

Our first batch of Miss Panda Super Idol hand-cast resin figures sold out at Toycon UK, but we’re happy to announce that we’ll be making a second and final batch of this edition and they are available to pre-order now on the TADOShop. Sexy-YEY!!

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Panda Otaku Pre-Orders

wearetado — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:19:45 +0000

We’re very excited to announce the second and final edition of ‘Panda Otaku Vol.1′ is now available for Pre-Order on the TADOShop! YEY!
Both the ‘Au Naturel’ and Painted versions are available to pre-order, but if you’d like one then please don’t leave it long – we’ll be closing the pre-orders on Friday 19th April!
Full Details on how to pre-order an ‘Au Naturel’ version here:

And the Painted version here.
Thank you to everyone who bought one or has already pre-ordered, we’re having way too much fun with this project and hope you guys enjoy them!

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Toycon UK Goodies Available Online Now!

wearetado — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:11:40 +0000

We’d like to say a HUUUUGE thank you to everyone who came along and said hello at Toycon UK! The event was fantastic and it was great to see so many happy people. The organisers did a fantastic job of keeping everything running like clockwork and we received some great feedback from the attendees.
A huge thank you to everyone who took home some of our wares as well – the Panda Otaku’s sold out especially quickly, we hope the little chaps are behaving themselves in their new homes.
We’re very happy to announce that we’ve just uploaded the remaining Toycon UK items to the TADOShop – you can check out what’s available and we’ve also got a couple of pre-orders running too! We’ll go into detail about them in the next post.
Thank you again to everyone who came along and to the organisers for a brilliant day!
Here’s to next year!!

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Toycon UK Releases Number 5 – Resin Time!

wearetado — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:50:36 +0000

Evening all! It’s time for our final Toycon UK release announcement – this time its some work in progress pics!
We’re very excited to be in the process of casting 2 new handmade resin figures for the event – The Hermazinger and Miss Panda Super Idol!!
These are sculpted by us and produced in our very own hi-tech production lab… er… kitchen.
We’ll update with more pics of the finished items, run numbers and prices soon!
We hope you like the look of em, we’re certainly having a lot of fun making them and learning a ton of stuff at the same time. woop!

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wearetado — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:31:20 +0000

Hooray – Here’s the first of today’s Toycon UK releases! Lovely charred pieces of wood that smell great and can be attached to your keys. WOW!
6 different designs, made in Sheffield (of course!) and priced at £5 each.
Stay tuned as today is going to be the final day of our Toycon UK announcements – but there’s more to come later!
oh the suspense!!

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