Ever since Rob Ford has been elected into office at City Hall his aim has been to “clean up.” Whether it be a detox of both him and his brother’s intestinal tracts or to rid our city’s walls of culturally adorned street art.
“As musicians, you can try to make music that you think people want to hear, or you can make music that speaks to you and that you’re proud of. Personally, we make music that people don’t really want to hear and that we’re not particularly proud of.”
“Matthew is the Beauty doyen, and my background is from the Design world. We wanted to create something very modern, understandable and of course efficacious.”
Sarah Velasco: Can you tell us about what you do as a freelance illustrator and designer? Matt Gondek: My day consists of a variety of things. Most of my day is focused on my freelance illustration. That entails preparing new rough ideas for clients, and completing new work that is sold. I’m primarily known for [...]
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“Moving forward is important but understanding the virtues from that past is what moves you. “
Naturally we put pressure on ourselves. We’re not going to put out anything that isn’t up to our standards. We believe in our taste and that it’s high quality. we don’t just want to be “noise” we always look to do our part and add to already good art. We’re not going to look to add to the painting if the colours are wrong. Toronto is a beautiful city.
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”- Amadeus Mozart
To think of all the things that make you happy and thats what music does. Its your favourite food that makes your mouth water. Your favourite place in the world taking your breath away no matter how many times you’ve been there.
Change. I’m not good with change so music is how I cope with it. Society I’m sure is always on the move so I just try and keep up.
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