4 Ways to Show Your Work at the DesignTO Festival 2023

Show Your Work at the 13th Annual DesignTO Festival, January 20-29, 2023

The DesignTO Festival brings people together to celebrate contemporary design across the city January 20-29, 2023.

Join the Festival to become a part of an exciting network of creative people, exhibitions, events, and an audience of designers and design-lovers. Since 2011, the DesignTO Festival has welcomed over 600,000 visitors, worked with over 5,000 artists and designers, and reached over 475 million users through print and digital media.

4 Ways to Participate

1. Apply to our Guest Designer Program
Deadline: Friday, September 12, 2022

This is for you if:
You are a designer or artist who is looking for a free venue for your exhibition, event, or window installation.

Benefits:
Selecting from a range of great host venues, showcasing your creative work to a diverse audience, visibility on our website and mobile apps, and more.

Click here to learn more and apply to be a guest designer

2. Submit to speak to the DesignTO Symposium: ‘Trash Talk’
Deadline: Friday, September 23, 2022

This is for you if:
You are a designer, educator, or thinker exploring how design responds to the problem of waste management. Talks may be about current research or case studies, new products or technologies, spaces or experiences, speculative design or strategies, or new processes or policies.

Benefits:
Sharing your work with a broad audience, receiving a speaker fee, meeting other leaders in the field, visibility on our website and mobile apps, and more.

Click here to learn more and submit your talk proposal

3. Submit to the thematic exhibition: ‘One Hot Second’
Deadline: Friday, September 23, 2022

This is for you if:
You are a designer exploring how creatives can make change to decelerate the rate at which the earth is rapidly warming. What can artists and designers do to imagine and act in the face of environmental destruction?

Benefits:
Having your work featured alongside artists and designers in one of DesignTO’s core exhibitions, receiving an artist fee, visibility on our website and mobile apps, and more.

Click here to learn more and submit your proposal

4. Produce Your Own Independent Project
Deadline: Friday, October 7, 2022

This is for you if:
You are an artist, designer, design firm, local business, academic/cultural institution, or a student that has an event, exhibition, or window installation you want to self-produce and register with the Festival.

Benefits:
Showcasing your creative work to a diverse audience of designers and design-lovers, meeting artists and designers, visibility on our website and mobile apps, and more.

You should know:
You are entirely responsible for your project’s content and venue.

Click here to learn more and apply

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Image credits:
‘Future Retrospectives’ group exhibition. Photo by Simon Liao.
‘Protest Poster’ by The Visual Department (Michelle Smith). Photo by Yianni Tong.