DesignTO

Celebrating 10 Years
of Art and Design

DesignTO is about creativity, community,
and experimentation.

January 17–26, 2020.

DesignTO Talks

Hear Berlin-based design and architecture
collective They Feed Off Buildings speak about
the process of creating ‘Urban Terrazzo’.

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DesignTO Symposium

DesignTO’s 5th annual symposium brings
9 multidisciplinary experts to discuss a
Future without Work.

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DesignTO Birthday Bash

DesignTO is turning 10 and we’re
commemorating this momentous
occasion with a party!

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DesignTO Youth

Established in 2019, DesignTO Youth is
a program that provides youth with access
to creative disciplines and professionals.

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Win the Beam Lamp
from Muuto!

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Festival Week Events

What to do Saturday, January 18

Festival Week Events

What to do Friday, January 17

Festival Week Events

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Azure’s Top 7 at DesignTO

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Showcasing Khyari Flooring's newest flooring creations for 2020. Explore the exclusive Reclaimed Collection, new product colours, and their custom Bespoke Collection. In addition, view their stalwart lines, Memories of Versailles and Scandinavia; masterpieces in their own right.

Event

Khayeri presents 2020 Interior Design Trends in Flooring

Jan 23

Artist Jacqueline Poirier explores a feast of fine foods and gourmet cuisine in this mouth watering hand-painted plate installation.

Exhibition

I’ve Got a Lot on My Plate

Jan 17

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Jan 25 2020

Atelier Stōbben's Manitoba collection of wall lamps reflect on the connection between lighting and mental health. Inspired by Mennonite clocks, circadian lighting emulates the sun in an attempt to realign our bodies' internal clock. Also showing: Dovell geometric hanging lamp.

Exhibition

Circadian Lighting and Geometry by Atelier Stōbben

Jan 16

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Jan 26 2020

In a clarion call for the return of summer, artist Frances Hahn brings her paper collage 'Field Leap' into three dimensions.

Window Installation

Field Leap

Jan 17

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Jan 26 2020

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Discover four exciting installations in the Yonge + St. Clair neighbourhood that explore ideas of connectedness. Hear from installation creators artist Lauren Pirie, art and design collective Interspatial, artists and designers Chris Foster and Layne Hinton, and global architecture firm Gensler.

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DesignTO Tours: Connection Points

Jan 19

An installation of hanging and free-standing carved wood sculpture. Djuna Day’s carvings evoke both the airy silhouettes of Victorian botanical drawings and the studied depth of Reinhardt’s ‘Black Paintings’; a tight space between mysticism and rationale.

Window Installation

Dark Curves

Jan 15

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Jan 31 2020

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DesignTO is turning 10 and we’re commemorating this momentous occasion with a party! Join us at The Garrison to celebrate this milestone and dance the night away.

DesignTO ProjectEvent

DesignTO Birthday Bash

Jan 25

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In her solo exhibition, It Starts Out Rough, Julie Jenkinson juxtaposes two bodies of sculpture work made from unrelated collections of salvaged wood and found vintage objects.

Exhibition

It Starts Out Rough

Jan 16

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Jan 26 2020

Context addresses the stratified urban conditions that characterize our cities. A banner of reflective material weaves between interior greenery and exterior spaces, emphasizing a design process influenced by interconnected social, environmental, and built layers.

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Context

Jan 17

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Jan 26 2020

In this exhibition, OCAD U Industrial Design students using the participatory design framework to design bespoke textile goods to be sewn and distributed by Regent Park Sewing Studio as part of their livelihood and towards a future retail space in 2021.

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re:LOCATION // an offsite OCADU design course in Regent Park

Jan 17

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Jan 26 2020

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Entering its 10th year, DesignTO is Canada’s largest annual celebration of design with over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week, January 17–26, 2020.

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Dori Tunstall

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Joy Charbonneau

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Julia Montanez

Design Curator

Julie Nicholson

Creative Placemaker, Curator, Advocate

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