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DesignTO Festival - January 19-28, 2024
Start Planning Your Festival Week Today!
View the 2024 Festival Schedule to see what's in store for #DesignTO24
January 19, 2024
Kickoff the 2024 Festival at the DesignTO Launch Party!
Join us at Harbourfront Centre for the 2024 Launch Party. Buy your Launch Party tickets before January 7 to get $10 off your ticket!
January 24-25, 2024
DesignTO Talks: Dematerialized
DesignTO’s ninth annual symposium brings together eight multidisciplinary experts to explore the complexities of dematerialization in an increasingly digital world.
Stay Close to the Action!
We have partnered with two amazing downtown Toronto hotels to keep you a stone’s throw away to all things DesignTO Festival!
DesignTO Festival - January 19-28, 2024
Now Open: 2024 Call for Volunteers
Experience Toronto’s vibrant design & art culture, and help support our mission to advance design culture in Canada.
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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 sustainable, just and joyful world.
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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.
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2024

Festival Events

DesignTO Tours: Space & Sanctuary
Jan 28
Around Strange Phool’s Tablescape
Jan 23
DesignTO Launch Party 2024
Jan 19
SHEEEP Radio: DesignTO Festival Edition
Jan 27
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.

DesignTO is best known for the non-profit DesignTO Festival, Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival that celebrates design’s role in creating a sustainable, just and joyful world with 100+ free exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week every January.

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