Title: Winds of Change
Artist: Sabrina Kong
Markham boasts a busy, booming tech industry. A new wave of technology is being produced by talented individuals within our city. Our diverse, colourful skills make our work inventive and unique. The colourful winds of change approach as Markham continues to grow.
Title: Connection
Artist: Yifei Wang
Connectivity is essential for collaboration and creating centers for innovation. As Ontario’s “high tech capital” Markham’s infrastructure supports innovators by bring together technology and talent.
The architectural silhouettes are inspired by the buildings near Markham’s Civic Centre. The graphics within each bubble were inspired by one of Markham’s local technology-based companies symbolizing the company's specific invention or field of research. The relationship of the white icons to the buildings illustrates that awe are a community of learners, connected though technology fostering creative synergy that nurtures talent and innovations. Innovations come from talented, creative minds working together through technologies to leverage and amplify their collective creativity thoughts forming a new reality.
Title: New Horizons
Artists: Amy Huang and Victoria Lin
The city of Markham offers opportunities for everyone, regardless of gender, race, and age, to strive for their dreams through the innovation of technology and business. Full of eager individuals seeking to grow their careers, Markham is the heart for development. To demonstrate this, we show a woman and a man on their respective jobs looking out towards the sun of what could be debated as whether rising or setting. The ambiguity of the sun represents the cycle of never ending determination and creativity that Markham inspires. In the background is a stylized visual of the city, with geographically correct buildings placed to maintain Markham’s essence in the box wrap. In the foreground, the figures stand on high platforms to illustrate how Markham is a place that elevates them-- a place that allows them to reaching new heights."