The 2026 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. The DesignTO Awards celebrates the talent, expression, and diversity of designers from Toronto and abroad.
The 2026 Festival offers a unique opportunity for attendees to engage meaningfully with industrial design.
Experiential design bridges the physical and digital, the sensory and social, transforming everyday spaces into memorable encounters.
When design moves beyond form and function, it becomes a way to ask deeper questions: Who are we? What do we carry with us? And how do we care for ourselves and one another?
The unique events the DesignTO Festival offers are core to our mission.
Our art and craft programming offers a window into the zeitgeist – the spirit, attitudes, and cultural mood of our current moment.
Gilbert Fortin of Attirail Design Office shares how various interests and combined experiences led to a comprehensive collection of activity-related products and gear.
Interdisciplinary artist Deepikah RB shares how she decided to move her practice away from machines and into a world of wonderment.
My house is tiny but I’m lucky to have a small (77 square feet) office crammed with plants and art that I use when I’m on calls with clients.
As individuals and organizations take on proper physical distancing measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have…
I’ve always had a designated space to work at home. When I get ideas I want to work immediately so I don’t forget.
I live in a small two-storey apartment in a house, with no designated office space, so I definitely spend my day moving around…
DesignTO’s Artistic Director, Deborah Wang, and Head of Programming, Robyn Wilcox, shed light on the organization’s value system and how the Festival is curated
Uncovering design’s role in advancing social change.
Exploring design’s unseen role in bettering society, the environment, and individual joy and well-being.
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