DesignTO News

The 2026 DesignTO Festival may be over, but there is still so much art and design to experience!

These seven neighbourhood hubs offer a selection of exhibitions, installations, and events featuring photography, embroidery, lighting, glass, and more.

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.

Today we mark a meaningful milestone for DesignTO. As we prepare to launch the 2026 DesignTO Festival (January 23 – February 1, 2026), we’re excited to share that DesignTO is now a registered charity.

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.

As DesignTO enters its 16th year, we are pleased to announce that Anna Bartula has joined DesignTO as its Executive Director.