Artist, designer, and ‘DesignTO Talks: Dematerialized’ speaker, Ruby Thelot, discusses memes, memory, and more.
Artist + Designer Spotlight: Ruby Thelot

Artist, designer, and ‘DesignTO Talks: Dematerialized’ speaker, Ruby Thelot, discusses memes, memory, and more.
‘Shelf Life’ is an online panel discussion about the state of publishing in architecture and design, featuring editorial directors and writers.
Through the ‘Meet our Members’ series, we introduce you to DesignTO Members supporting our efforts to provide accessible public programming to our community.
Neshat Neishabouri shares the significant impact of promoting creativity, cultural exchange, community-building, and supporting emerging talent in the art and design community and why they wanted to be a DesignTO volunteer.
Textile artist Alisa McRonald discusses her many inspirations from musicians, to crochet artists, sculptors, and more.
Through the ‘Meet our Members’ series, we introduce you to DesignTO Members supporting our efforts to provide accessible public programming to our community. Together we celebrate design’s role in creating a sustainable, just and joyful world.
2023 DesignTO Festival Awards winner, artist Elena Mahno, discusses shifts in her career, the importance of wellbeing, and her X-Men blockbuster movie cameo.
DesignTO Festival alumnus Justin Hawley talks breaking the design mold, anarchy, and finding passion in the untraditional.
Co-Founder of Urban Minds and past Festival exhibitor Angela Ng shares her goals of inspiring youth, creating community, and making change.
2023 DesignTO Festival Awards winner, designer Adrienna Matzeg, talks to us about photography, Covid’s influence on her practice and the impact of architecture in her work.
DesignTO Members are key to helping us to fulfil our mission to advance design culture in Canada. For member Basak Duman, they joined because it’s great to be a part of the Toronto design community.
Chuma Asuzu shares his inspirations, thoughts on everyday beauty, and the process of producing and selling the design he exhibited at the 2023 DesignTO Festival.