Discover something new at DesignTO 2026
These seven neighbourhood hubs offer a selection of exhibitions, installations, and events featuring photography, embroidery, lighting, glass, and more.
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Meet the 2026 DesignTO Awards Jury and Sponsor
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.
Explore how we’re Shaping the City with DesignTO
This week, we’re turning our attention to the built environment – the buildings, public spaces, infrastructures, and mobility systems that shape how we move, feel, interact, and communicate.
Interact with Industrial Design at DesignTO 2026
The 2026 Festival offers a unique opportunity for attendees to engage meaningfully with industrial design.
Experiential Design at DesignTO 2026: See It. Feel It. Share It.
Experiential design bridges the physical and digital, the sensory and social, transforming everyday spaces into memorable encounters.
Identity, Care, and Connection: Nine Powerful Projects at DesignTO 2026
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?
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Designer Spotlights
Designer Spotlights
Gilbert Fortin of Attirail Design Office shares how various interests and combined experiences led to a comprehensive collection of activity-related products and gear.
Designer Spotlights
Interdisciplinary artist Deepikah RB shares how she decided to move her practice away from machines and into a world of wonderment.
Work From Home
Getting Through This
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.
Getting Through This
As individuals and organizations take on proper physical distancing measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have…
Getting Through This
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.
Getting Through This
I live in a small two-storey apartment in a house, with no designated office space, so I definitely spend my day moving around…
Design 101
DesignTO 101
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
DesignTO 101
Uncovering design’s role in advancing social change.
DesignTO 101
Exploring design’s unseen role in bettering society, the environment, and individual joy and well-being.
