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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.
Design Your 2026 Festival Stay with These Hotel Deals!
Access all the great 2026 DesignTO Festival programming with ease! We have partnered with these amazing downtown Toronto hotels to keep you close to the action.
DesignTO Welcomes New Executive Director
As DesignTO enters its 16th year, we are pleased to announce that Anna Bartula has joined DesignTO as its Executive Director.
Advertise with DesignTO
Connect with the design community. DesignTO offers a range of advertising and promotional opportunities for businesses, organizations, and brands…
#DesignTO25 – What to do NEXT
Here are some exhibitions, events and installations you can go to after the Festival officially ends on February 2, 2025.
The 2025 Launch Party Welcomes the Ministry of Tourism, the City of Toronto and the Ontario Arts Council
DesignTO is welcomes representatives from the Ministry of Tourism, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto to celebrate the launch of the 15th DesignTO Festival.
