We are young professionals and we are passionate about our city.
We come from backgrounds of branding, design, video production, web development, and social media strategy. We share a common desire to help Toronto, our city by choice, gain the international recognition it deserves. And so we decided to apply our creativities to the question of what is uniquely Torontonian.
The result: 3 videos which we entered into the spacing.ca contest, aptly titled My Toronto.
Here a bit more about us:
Matthew DeWaal. Designer, developer, and web strategist. Lover of good design, fine wine, the TTC, and all things interweb. Cofounder of a Web 2.0 startup that developed a wiki platform. Can see HTO park (as featured in the "HTO" video) from his office.
Clea Forkert. Coming soon!
Iris Glaser. Is a graphic designer, illustrator, craft hound and collector of paper scraps. Iris is also the owner and creative director of Tailor Communications Design, a graphic design shop based in Chinatown, Toronto. From her office window, Iris can see the very same urban vegetable patch featured in the "Garden" video.
Brenton McConnell. Tarantula Productions is a specialty commercial and music video production company with big, cool ideas. Clients include Farley Flex (Live At The Palais Royale TV pilot), Brown Brigade, Jeremy Fisher, Sweden's Sally Shapiro, Machete Avenue, CIRPA, and many more.
Jamie Milligan. Tarantula Productions is a specialty commercial and music video production company with big, cool ideas. Clients include Farley Flex (Live At The Palais Royale TV pilot), Brown Brigade, Jeremy Fisher, Sweden's Sally Shapiro, Machete Avenue, CIRPA, and many more.
Arieh Singer. Sees the world through his Single Lens Reflex camera. An avid photographer, Arieh has travelled throughout North America, the Middle-East, Europe, South-East Asia, and Australasia. Arieh can be seen daily on his photoblog at www.ariehsinger.com.
Eli Singer. The Managing Director of Social Media at Cundari and blogs at Singer.to. His work spans WWF-Canada, the ROM, CaseCamp, the CIBC Run for the Cure, Transit Camp and the Power of the 2x2 Matrix. Pinball is his thing and his favourite park in Toronto is Cedarvale Ravine.