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Toronto Design Offsite Festival, operating under the business name DesignTO.
DesignTO is a registered charity (Charitable Business #: 803833300RR0001).

2027 DesignTO Festival Calls

NOW OPEN—2027 Call for Independent Projects

Submit to show your work at the 2027 DesignTO Festival, January 22 – 31

2027 DesignTO Festival Calls

NOW OPEN—2027 Call for Host Venues

Submit to have your space activated during the 2027 DesignTO Festival, January 22 – 31

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It's a Futures Fund Anniversary!

A year ago, DesignTO launched our first fundraising campaign, which helped us sustain our annual festival and public programs.

2026 DesignTO Awards

And the Winners Are...

DesignTO reveals the winners of the 2026 DesignTO Awards, sponsored by Thermador, spotlighting the future of Canadian design

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DesignTO is a charitable arts organization that believes design can create a sustainable, just, and joyful world. DesignTO organizes the annual DesignTO Festival. It is Canada’s largest celebration of design, forming Toronto’s design week every January.

About DesignTO

In 2025, DesignTO became a registered charity.

DesignTO is Canada's leading annual 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.

In 2019, the Toronto Design Offsite Festival became DesignTO

Since 2011, DesignTO has showcased over 7,500+ artists and designers.

DesignTO promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion, with diverse representation across its team and board.

DesignTO's annual festival attracted over 250K visitors in 2026 and over 1.2 million since 2011, cementing its place in Toronto's cultural design scene.

DesignTO Blog

DesignTO News

It’s a Futures Fund Anniversary

A year ago, DesignTO launched our first fundraising campaign, which helped us sustain our annual festival and public programs.

DesignTO News

2026 King East Design District Neighbourhood Hop presented by DesignTO

It’s time to celebrate innovation, design, and community at the annual King East Design District (KEDD) Neighbourhood Hop, organized by DesignTO, in collaboration with Old Town Toronto BIA.

DesignTO News

DesignTO Awards Recipient Spotlight: Becca Wakefield

DesignTO Award winner Becca Wakefield explores how plant-based and bacterial cellulose materials might offer alternatives to single-use plastics.

DesignTO News

DesignTO Awards Recipient Spotlight: Anaïe Dufresne

Anaïe Dufresne, one of the organizers behind the DesignTO Award winning exhibition ‘Ensemble presents: Pot-au-feu’, approaches her work through a lens shaped by scenography, the practice of creating stage environments or atmospheres.