A year ago, DesignTO launched our first fundraising campaign, which helped us sustain our annual festival and public programs.
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2026 King East Design District Neighbourhood Hop presented by DesignTO
It’s time to celebrate innovation, design, and community at the annual King East Design District (KEDD) Neighbourhood Hop, organized by DesignTO, in collaboration with Old Town Toronto BIA.
DesignTO Awards Recipient Spotlight: Becca Wakefield
DesignTO Award winner Becca Wakefield explores how plant-based and bacterial cellulose materials might offer alternatives to single-use plastics.
DesignTO Awards Recipient Spotlight: Anaïe Dufresne
Anaïe Dufresne, one of the organizers behind the DesignTO Award winning exhibition ‘Ensemble presents: Pot-au-feu’, approaches her work through a lens shaped by scenography, the practice of creating stage environments or atmospheres.
DesignTO Awards Recipient Spotlight: Yana Rzayeva
Multimedia artist and 2026 Best in Festival: Window Installation Award winner Yana Rzayeva invites passersby to slow down, look closely, and engage with materials that carry both history and transformation.
DesignTO Awards Recipient Spotlight: Atelier Fomenta
Best Product/Object Design Award recipient Atelier Fomenta approaches design as a collaborative and evolving process.
DesignTO Awards Recipient Spotlight: Sky Ece Ulusoy
Emerging Artist/Designer Award recipient Sky Ece Ulusoy explores the unseen forces that shape emotional and mental experience, inviting visitors into a space where fragility and resilience exist in tension.
DesignTO Awards Recipient Spotlight: Quan Thai
Founders’ Award recipient Quan Thai explores the meaning of home through ‘TO·BE·LONGING: Portraits of Queer Living’, an exhibition that brings together stories of identity, memory, and belonging through domestic space.
DesignTO Reveals 2026 Award Winners, Spotlighting the Future of Canadian Design
The annual DesignTO Awards celebrate excellence in exhibitions, installations, and product design at a Thermador-hosted celebration.
The 16th Annual DesignTO Festival: 10 Days That Transformed Toronto
The 16th annual DesignTO Festival featured 100+ events across 20 Toronto neighbourhoods, showcasing hundreds of creatives and drawing thousands city-wide.
Ideas Forum: Advocating for a Better City
Organized by DesignTO in partnership with the Toronto Society of Architects, ‘Ideas Forum: Advocating for a Better City’ features five fast-paced presentations (20 slides shown for 20 seconds each) exploring different approaches and case studies of advocacy in Toronto’s built environment.
2026 Look & Feel Digital Media
Designed by Aiyana Alzamora, the 2026 DesignTO look and feel is an exploration of the built environment, as scene through the eyes of a graphic designer.
