Tomato
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I was first exposed to the Tomato Beatlemania around 1993 when I was studying at StMartins. Graham Wood was in the 3rd year when I was in the first and his wife was in my year. The whole thing was exploding for them around that time. Graham Wood had just walked out of Leagas Delaney with a large chunk of the Adidas account and everyone was wetting their collective knickers about the group. Everyone in my year was crazily buying Mmm Skyscraper and suddenly every college project crit was filled with Tomato clones.I was freelancing at Aboud-Sodano at the time and I guess things seemed a bit more 'classy' in our studio. They just seemed like a bunch of monkeys doing nothing particularly interesting but getting this huge buzz about them.
Very much a student sketchbook mentality and repsect to them for that, but I think there was a lot of hot air blown up their arses... more than they perhaps deserved.