Hello!

My name is Sophie Diao (rhymes with “meow”).
I'm an artist in San Francisco Oakland! California.

I make games at Google (and previously made Google Doodles).
I’ve also worked with the Ad Council, the California Academy of Sciences, Cartoon Network, Chromosphere, Disney TV Animation, Hermès, Pixar, and more.

I also create children’s books. These are the books that I have both written and illustrated:

[to be announced] (Fall 2027)
TINY TROUBLES: NELLI’S PURPOSE (Apr 2024)

And here are the books I illustrated that other people wrote:

OUR HOME, OUR ONLY HOME, by Marion Dane Bauer (Mar 2026)
A NAME FOR SISTER, by Charlotte Cheng (Mar 2026)
FROM PARK TO PLAYA, by Nell Cross Beckerman (May 2024)
WE ARE GOLDEN, by Eva Chen (Jan 2024)
I AM GOLDEN, by Eva Chen (Feb 2022)
SARAH AND THE BIG WAVE, by Bonnie Tsui (May 2021)
I AM THE WIND, by Michael Karg (Nov 2020)

To get in touch: sydiao@gmail.com (no personal commissions!)
For picture books, please contact Hannah Mann at Writers House.

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