Best of the Best - TORONTO
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- Ladylike
What are the best design/branding/advertising firms in TORONTO?
I only like Taxi. I think?
- ideaist0
Come here and find out homegirl...
- ideaist0
TAXI is for dorks and sellouts...
- harv0
I like TAXI!!!
- harv0
Ogilvy & Mather and Leo Burnett have offices here too!
- i_monk0
Lately I've had to work with some files provided by Taxi, and I'm not impressed. They don't get the client, the demographic, and the files themselves are poorly constructed.
I had a friend at Taxi who left after 3 months because he couldn't take the sterile corporate structure; he went from a job with lots of input at all levels of production, to being pigeon holed into one role and spoon fed bits and pieces of projects.
- ross0
these folks always do nice work too.
- indeed, forgot amoebamadmanGerald
- Everything on their site seem slightly jagged to anyone else? Forgot to turn on smoothing!?ideaist
- jacklalane0
http://www.arcadeagency.com do some hip work
- Nice cats too! Great facial hair (not sure if they still have the trademark mustaches?!ideaist
- i_monk0
I would have said Mau too, but then he did this to the AGO:
- This has grown on me... Not sure how well it reduces but has been applied nicely...ideaist
- I have not heard the best things about him as a person. I am over working for egos. Been there.Ladylike
- It just doesn't work. Outside the AGO they have a 3d rendering of it, but it's in a single type/colour.i_monk
- ideaist0
I think the fact that you called them "FIRMS" right of the back shows how inflexible most of the big shot calling ad agencies locally (in Toronto) and globally are.
Their is a shift to small, flexible agenices winning big clients because they are able to change, adapt, grow and shrink faster and more efficiently with none (or less) of the politics of the big names.
I encourage this shift to continue so an ad agency of 100-500 today becomes a small, personal well oiled machine; not a bloated oversized cow.
- agenices = agencies... : )ideaist
- agree.Ladylike
- the lady is still looking for wicked cool places to work...not your morals as much as I agreeharv
- sorry for injecting this place with a little personality / opinion...ideaist
- ideaist, nice site btwharv
- it's dated now homey; it was a temp site (of course) but swamped for the next 1.5 months... ; )ideaist
- Hoping to come out with a new one, another 2 companies and a blog in the coming months...ideaist
- LOKi0
- polyestercorp0
- http://www.blokdesig…
before they moved to mexicopolyestercorp - "Brand Velocity" - fa reeelz?
Underline do neat work.Andrew_D
- http://www.blokdesig…
- Cenitgrade0
Yep I'd say ameoba.
- Solid group of peeps, worked with them on this site: http://thepopshoppe.…Andrew_D
- Ladylike0
Ameoba looks great.
- alicetheblue0
worked at ameoba.
great peeps, culture, and creativity.
- neue75_bold0
Underline and Concrete would be my picks for the best, surely there must be some new studios popping up? Can't say I've ever really liked Amoebas work that much, just different sensibilities...
- Ladylike0
Underline looks pretty great too.
- it's just two people... but they may use freelancers from time to time..neue75_bold