July 17, 2025 | 6 PM
DesignTO Tours: Inside a Geary Avenue Creative Hub
Experience two unique industrial lofts filled with contemporary art, designer furniture, and plants.
DesignTO Futures Fund | 2025 Annual Campaign
Fuel the Future of Canadian Design
We’re inviting our community to help support this non-profit work through our first annual fundraising campaign.
DesignTO Festival: January 23 – February 1, 2026
NOW OPEN – 2026 Call for Independent Projects
Submit your event, exhibition or installation to be a part of the 16th annual DesignTO Festival, January 23 – February 1, 2026.
DesignTO Festival: January 23 – February 1, 2026
NOW OPEN - 2026 Call for Host Venues
Activate your space with design at the 16th annual DesignTO Festival, January 23 – February 1, 2026.
DesignTO Festival: January 23 – February 1, 2026
NEW CALL - Residency Call for Submissions
DesignTO and Le Germain Hotel Toronto Mercer are excited to launch a new Artist-in-Residence Program!
DesignTO Festival: January 23 – February 1, 2026
NOW OPEN - 2026 Thematic Exhibition Call for Submission
'Traces' explores the response to the realities of migration, the impact of involuntary relocation, and the ongoing struggle to preserve culture and identity.
DesignTO Festival: January 23 – February 1, 2026
NOW OPEN - DesignTO Youth Call for Submissions
‘Otherworld’ is the seventh edition of DesignTO Youth, a program that provides youth (ages 18-29) with access to creative disciplines and professionals.
2025 DesignTO Awards
We are pleased to announce the 13th annual DesignTO Awards!
The DesignTO Awards celebrates the talent, expression, and diversity of designers from Toronto and abroad.
DesignTO Membership
Become a DesignTO Member Today!
DesignTO Members are key in helping us fulfill our mission to increase the public’s knowledge and appreciation of design and its role in creating a sustainable, just and joyful world.
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DesignTO is a non-profit arts and culture organization that believes design can create a sustainable, just, and joyful world. DesignTO organizes the annual DesignTO Festival, celebrating its 15th birthday in January 2025. It is Canada’s largest celebration of design, forming Toronto’s design week.

DesignTO is Canada's leading design festival shaping a sustainable, just, and joyful world.
DesignTO was founded in 2010 as the Toronto Design Offsite Festival by a group of seven creatives and held its first annual event in January 2011.
Since 2011, DesignTO has welcomed nearly one million visitors, showcasing over 6,000 artists and designers.
DesignTO promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion, with diverse representation across its team and board.
DesignTO's annual festival attracted 161 K+ visitors in 2023 and almost 1 million since 2011, cementing its place in Toronto's cultural design scene.

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