The DesignTO Awards recognize design excellence.
The DesignTO Awards recognize design excellence at the DesignTO Festival, Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival that celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making. Presented by Yabu Pushelberg, the DesignTO Awards celebrates the talent, expression, and diversity of designers from Toronto and abroad.
DesignTO recognizes design excellence in the Festival each year, in three categories: Best in Festival, Juror’s Choice, and People’s Choice, granting up to 21 DesignTO Awards. An annual jury of designers and industry experts vote for awards in two “Best in Festival” categories and for three “Juror’s Choice” each, while the public votes for three “People’s Choice” awards.
In 2022, there are three new DesignTO Awards: the ‘Founders’ Award’ which recognizes the project that best aligns with DesignTO’s purpose to bring people together to design a better future, the ‘Emerging Artist/Designer Award’ which recognizes the jury’s selection for the best work by an emerging artist/designer across the Festival, and the ‘Best Product/Object Design Award’ which recognizes the best in custom work and limited-edition collections including furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, textiles and surface design.
Awardees are recognized and celebrated through DesignTO’s extensive network.
Jurors can consider any Festival project for an award.
A selection of exhibitions and installations will be visited in person on jury day. During the pandemic, the jurors will convene online.
Design experts and one former awardee are invited each year to participate in jurying the Awards program.
Jurors: Anya Georgijevic (writer and designer), Bahar Ghaemi (Creative Director of Products, Yabu Pushelberg), Sylvia Lee (Creative and Executive Director, Jeff Goodman Studio), Marcia MacDonald (Senior Creative Director, Yabu Pushelberg), and Samira Matan (designer, researcher, and 2021 Award winner).
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