January 18-27, 2019
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Jan 18, 2019 - Jan 26, 2019
Exhibitions
URBAN FABRIC is a series of rugs based on cities...
Jan 24, 2019 - Jan 24, 2019
Events
Explore Deloitte’s national headquarters where they redefined how people work by using design and technology to enhance engagement,...
Jan 18, 2019 - Jan 27, 2019
Window Installations
The ‘Macondo’ furniture collection is a magic-realist interpretation of Colombia its traditions and aesthetics. The pieces reimagine vernacular designs into a modern context. Bright colours, robust materials and...
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Layering different textures and colours of fabrics, this installation creates an architectural expression that embodies and celebrates the collective and colourful makeup that is Toronto. The process of layering each fabric mirrors...
Jan 17, 2019 - Jan 26, 2019
We can accomplish affordable housing through the City’s largest group of landowners and landlords: the citizens of Toronto. Nearly 40%...
A custom lighting installation by Kate MacNeill and David Jung of Concord Custom Lighting ...
Festival Features
‘Misfit’ presents a standalone artifact from Batay-Csorba Architects’ ongoing material explorations. The installation re-examines the possibilities of precast concrete construction systems, using advanced fabrication techniques to enliven their...
Jan 14, 2019 - Feb 1, 2019
‘All Bound Up’ explores the intricacies of queer online intimacy. As app-facilitated/digital intimacies have become increasingly common, a dissonance between how bodies reveal, conceal, and interact has emerged...
Dec 18, 2018 - Feb 28, 2019
‘Pattern Recognition’ seeks to create an interpretive visual language that strings together single node pixel elements into complex object patterns....
‘Supersymmetry’ invites visitors to create quantum connections in the form...
Jan 17, 2019 - Jan 20, 2019
The Interior Design Show is Canada’s premier showcase of new products and furniture, superstar designers and avant-garde concepts from North...
Inspired by the romanticized version of the motel in popular culture, and influenced by her childhood growing up in Niagara Falls, designer/maker Natalie Sirianni’s ‘I L U Motel’...
‘LOPOW: Sheridan Furniture’ is an exhibition of work by the 2019 graduating class of Sheridan’s Bachelor of Craft and Design...
Montreal textile designer Annie Legault proposes the ‘RAW Collection’ as an ensemble of giant sculptures/lamps made of natural fibres. ...
Jan 22, 2019 - Jan 22, 2019
Join EQ3 Creative Director Thom Fougere and Canadian...
Jan 19, 2019
Love Design Party is the official celebration for #CUTMR2019 and DesignTO Festival. Drink and dance the night away in the Ballroom beneath an installation of limited edition kinetic...
Jan 18, 2019 - Jan 20, 2019
Mert Ozcan is an Architect and Interaction Designer, creating digital objects and spaces that melt the boundaries between physical and...
Sparkle Blob is a gigantic, shimmering mass of reversible sequins, or “flippies.” Under theatrical lighting, the sculpture projects good vibes...
Jan 22, 2019 - Feb 17, 2019
Our state of being is always influenced by our perspectives. Sensible Horizon seeks out to explore the intersection of two infinite planes as experienced by the observer. ...
‘Off Course’ is a work-in-progress exhibition created by students at...
Jan 17, 2019 - Jan 27, 2019
Would you dare to face your mortality? Would you dare to lie in a coffin? A do-it-yourself cardboard coffin seeks to turn death into a sustainable enterprise while...
Jan 9, 2019 - Jan 27, 2019
This annual exhibition of furniture created by the students of...
Aiming to provide an opportunity to reflect on mortality, and share life goals, ‘Before I Die…’ helps us “reimagine our...
Jan 16, 2019 - Feb 10, 2019
JJSTUDIO operate as a jewellery studio and gallery with a storefront in downtown Toronto, which runs by jewellery artist couple...
Jan 18, 2019 - Jan 18, 2019
Kick off the new 10-day Festival at the DesignTO Launch Party! Join designers, architects, artists, makers,...
Jan 18, 2019 - Jan 28, 2019
Asymmetric: adjective; not identical on both sides of a central line; unsymmetrical; lacking symmetry. ...
‘AESTUS’ is a series of stratified wooden vases designed and manufactured to explore a new synthesis of traditional materials and modern technology. Carved from solid wood by an...
At Delisle-St. Clair Parkette, superkül reflects on the role of the urban forest, both as infrastructure offering relief to the urbanity that surrounds them, and as spaces in...
Jan 19, 2019 - Jan 27, 2019
‘Polytope’ is a collection of pendant lights that synthesizes the material properties of brass alloy with the algorithmically assisted generation of tessellated forms and 3-axis CNC fabrication. ...
Jan 19, 2019 - Apr 29, 2019
The Ryerson University School of Interior Design, under the name 302 Collective, partners with Mackenzie House Museum as part of...
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