DesignTO Festival - January 24 - February 2, 2025
Celebrate DesignTO's 15th Birthday at the 2025 Festival!
Check out the 2025 Festival Schedule today!
January 24, 2025 | 7-11 PM
Join Us for Our 15th Birthday Celebration!
Join us for the official 2025 DesignTO Launch Party at Harbourfront Centre and kick off our 15th Festival with us!
January 31, 2025 | 2-6 PM
DesignTO Talks is back and IN PERSON!
‘DesignTO Talk: Net Positive’ brings together ten multidisciplinary experts to explore innovative responses to the climate crisis from a perspective of abundance.
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2025

Festival Events

Celebrate 15 years with us at the 2025 Launch Party on Friday, January 24, 2025 – get your tickets today!

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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