about dadako

28th of Dec, 2006ce* in: blog

dadako.com is the playground of Hawken King, a (cornish) British-born web-producer living in Tokyo. Dadako specialises in new-media graphics and illustration, fused to coding and design, providing clients with a heady mix of Japanese and British flavoured top-notch work. Hawken is part of Eat Creative

CLIENTS

Sony, Nintendo, Sega, Hasbro, GoPlay, Atari, Capcom, BMW, NEC, Honda, Oxfam, World Vision, One, Redbull, Keio University, Ninja Tune, Warp Records & various Music Labels.

Awards, Special Mentions, Publications:

Bronze at Cannes Cyber Lions //June 2008

redbull flightlab has been picking up an insane amount of awards recently, I though it proper to give this a small mention, even though my part to play was only some illustration…
Web Design Note (Japan) //July 2008

6 page profile of me and my works in this Japanese Quarterly magazine
Web Designer Magazine (England) //June 2008

Small mention of my name for my work on redbull flightlab.
Metropolis Magazine (Japan) //June 2008

Article about the plant using my illustrations. Unfortunately uncredited due to lazy layout designers
Brutus Magazine//2007

Drinking beer in this Japanese lifestyle magazine
pixeltees//2004

Featured store at pixel tees
IDN iconography//2002

Several pages of my pixel work published in this hardback book.
EGM//2002

Double page spread illustration for US magazine Electronic Gamer.
Fresh rmx//2002

1. My panel to play in the this wall wraparound mega project
2. Unknown amount of work in accompanying book.
webdesigners file//2001

several of my websites featured in this Japanese hardback publication.
narita extended//2001

6 pages of my pixel artwork in this artbook about Japanese artists (hang on?)
Shibuya PPP//2001

Double page article about myself and Klaus working for Furifuri at the time, in this youth culture magazine.
+81//2000

4 page article about Kleber in this Japanese creative magazine.
cre@te online//1999~2001

Unsure of issue numbers but have written several articles for them in the past about game mechanics within websites, staring with my work on Moloko’s website in 1999
Award//2000

Even though I never saw it… Moloko’s website won an award as best UK music website of 2000. Moloko accepted the award, we were told about it afterwards.