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DesignTO Festival - January 19-28, 2024
Now Open: 2024 Call for Independent Projects
Submit to show your exhibition, event, and window installation at the 2024 DesignTO Festival
DesignTO Festival - January 19-28, 2024
Now Open: 2024 Call for Host Venues
Submit to have your space activated with design at the 2024 DesignTO Festival
DesignTO Festival - January 19-28, 2024
Now Open: 2024 Symposium Call for Submission
Submit to become a speaker at the at the 2024 DesignTO Symposium: ‘Dematerialized’
DesignTO Festival - January 19-28, 2024
Now Open: 2024 Thematic Exhibition Call for Submissions
Submit to show your work at the 2024 Thematic Exhibition: ‘Future Matters’
DesignTO Youth
Now Open: 2023-24 DesignTO Youth Call for Submissions
Submit to take part in ‘Unpacking Creative Practice’, the fifth edition of DesignTO Youth.
DesignTO Awards
CONGRATULATIONS!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 11th annual DesignTO Awards, presented by Yabu Pushelberg and DIALOG, for the 2023 Festival.
DesignTO Blog
Designing a better future with DesignTO
As we prepare for the upcoming Festival, Executive Director Jeremy Vandermeij and Artistic Director Deborah Wang, take a moment to look back at where DesignTO started and where it’s going.
DesignTO Festival - What to do NEXT
Thank You!
Thank you to everyone for coming out to celebrate art and design in the middle of January, helping us people together to design a more sustainable, just, and joyful future.
DesignTO
DesignTO is a non-profit arts organization that brings people together to design a better future, one that is more sustainable, just, and joyful.
DesignTO Newsletter
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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 viable, just and joyful world.
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 over 1 million since 2011, cementing its place in Toronto's cultural design scene.
DesignTO is Canada's leading design festival shaping a sustainable, just, and joyful world.

DesignTO is best known for the non-profit DesignTO Festival, Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival that celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making, with 100+ exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week every January.

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