Events for designers & creatives

This calendar lists in-person and online design and arts events for graphic designers, illustrators, and visual creatives. We built this to help strengthen our community and reduce gatekeeping and barriers to connection. All events are based in Toronto.

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Featured Events

FEELS Issue 25: Hunger Launch & Ninth Birthday Party!

Join us for an evening of treats, poetry and live storytelling by Issue 25 contributors as we celebrate the Hunger Issue and FEELS' Ninth year of printing!! Featuring works from this issue!

Screenprinting 101 Workshop

This class will introduce you to the process and possibilities that screen printing can offer. You will learn the basics of designing art for screens using methods such as paper stencilling and exposing photo emulsion. We'll focus on technique over a finished product, allowing you to practice and refine the process under the guidance of a master printer.

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Digital Marketing for Artists & Creatives

Digital Marketing for Artists & Creatives

Findable Digital Marketing Inc.

This beginner-friendly workshop is designed for creatives who want to market their work online. What people see online isn’t random—there’s a strategy behind it. This session breaks down the core principles of digital marketing so you can make your website, portfolio, and online presence more discoverable, engaging, and effective.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Create, cut and paste pieces with a myriad of materials — from contemporary to vintage, and everything in between! — to create memory. Craft a blessing, build a vision board or remix a love poem for things to come. The experience is the joy! Invite your curiosity out on date, or bring a kid, parent, partner or pal: collage is for everyone.

A Strange Beauty

A Strange Beauty

Akasha Art Projects

An exhibit of botanical drawings, large scale interactive works, and wallpaper designs on invasive plants by Swiss-Belgian artist Sève Favre that blends decorative design with future ecologies. A participating project of DesignTO Festival.

Art/Wear: Sneakers x Artists

Art/Wear: Sneakers x Artists

Bata Shoe Museum

Many artists are increasingly using sneakers in conceptually rich ways to challenge and redefine conventional artistic boundaries. By manipulating the familiar form of sneakers, these artists create provocative works that explore themes of consumerism, personal expression, and societal expectations.

Inner Structures — Outer Rhythms

Inner Structures — Outer Rhythms

Aga Khan Museum

Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms offers a glimpse into the dynamic graphic design scene of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), showcasing how innovative Arabic and Persian typography contribute to global visual culture.

Upcoming Events

Design Evenings TO: Designing for Speed and Scale with AI

Design Evenings TO: Designing for Speed and Scale with AI

In this session, Brian Lin will share how HelloFresh is evolving its approach to rapid testing, data-driven iteration, and creative collaboration, using AI as a partner, not a replacement. Attendees will gain insight into how design teams can maintain craft and cohesion while scaling across products, markets, and technologies.

2 Colour Riso Workshop

2 Colour Riso Workshop

Take home 25qty 11x17" 2-colour Risograph prints of your own creation, plus a print exchange with all workshop participants. In this workshop participants will learn to digitally colour separate an artwork, prepare a file for print, print with a risograph in 2 colours.

FEELS Issue 25: Hunger Launch & Ninth Birthday Party!

FEELS Issue 25: Hunger Launch & Ninth Birthday Party!

Join us for an evening of treats, poetry and live storytelling by Issue 25 contributors as we celebrate the Hunger Issue and FEELS' Ninth year of printing!! Featuring works from this issue!

TFIG: Thank F*ck It's Glue! Roncy Collage Circle

TFIG: Thank F*ck It's Glue! Roncy Collage Circle

c-suite creative

Ditch the Friday night bar crawl and come make some art with us instead! Our monthly collage circles are basically group therapy, but with glue sticks and magazines.

Otherworld: DesignTO Youth Showcase

Otherworld: DesignTO Youth Showcase

The Otherworld Showcase also marks the culmination of a six-week youth program exploring how art and design can be used as tools for conscious change. The program invited 60 youth to question the systems that shape our realities and to imagine alternative futures rooted in care, collaboration, and possibility.

Trace Monotypes on Washi with Helen McCusker

Trace Monotypes on Washi with Helen McCusker

The Japanese Paper Place

Make your mark! Try expressive printmaking without a press: create a monotype drawing using an inked plate, washi, and your imagination!

Work and Play: Data for Designers

Work and Play: Data for Designers

This half-day workshop will cover the basics of data sourcing, analysis, and visualization. Additionally, we will explore how data can be leveraged in strategic and creative story telling.

Collage Night: The Series

Collage Night: The Series

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick for a three-week, collage-making extravaganza. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Gel Plate Monoprints on Washi using Custom Stencils & Masks

Gel Plate Monoprints on Washi using Custom Stencils & Masks

The Japanese Paper Place

In this one-day workshop we will work with different creative approaches to making our stencils and masks, followed by printing onto a selection of beautiful washi papers. We’ll also touch on materials and organization for your stencils as well as composing with them.

Lego Letterpress Valentines

Lego Letterpress Valentines

Flycatcher Press

Sometimes we just want to play with legos as adults. This class is the perfect low-key valentines or Pal-entines day date. We will design and print two-colour valentines designs using lego tiles. Participants bring home 10 cards+envelopes each.

Screenprinting 101 Workshop

Screenprinting 101 Workshop

This class will introduce you to the process and possibilities that screen printing can offer. You will learn the basics of designing art for screens using methods such as paper stencilling and exposing photo emulsion. We'll focus on technique over a finished product, allowing you to practice and refine the process under the guidance of a master printer.

Pressure Printing Valentines

Pressure Printing Valentines

Big River Bindery

Join us for this drop-in event where we’ll be making pressure print valentines on the letterpress equipment in the shop. This method uses layers of paper and stickers to create different layers that print darker and lighter on your print.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Create, cut and paste pieces with a myriad of materials—from contemporary to vintage, and everything in between!—to create memory. Craft a blessing, build a vision board or remix a love poem for things to come. The experience is the joy! Invite your curiosity out on date, or bring a kid, parent, partner or pal: collage is for everyone.

DesignMeets X OCAD U: Design & The Love Economy

DesignMeets X OCAD U: Design & The Love Economy

Join us as we explore this timely and important intersection between design, care, and systems thinking — and consider how love might become a more intentional design principle for the futures we create.

Design After-Hours TO: Winter 2026

Design After-Hours TO: Winter 2026

An evening for Toronto designers, creatives, and design leaders to connect with others who care deeply about the craft. Share insights, spark ideas, and engage with the community shaping the future of design and pushing the industry forward.

Objectified Film Screening and Happy Hour

Objectified Film Screening and Happy Hour

Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario

Objectified is a feature-length documentary, Produced and Directed by Gary Hustwit, about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Soft Sculpture Snacks

Soft Sculpture Snacks

Spend the afternoon with a young person in your life learning how to craft soft sculpture snacks. Registration covers one adult and one youth (8 yrs +) participant.

Hands-On Printmaking Workshop

Hands-On Printmaking Workshop

This beginner-friendly workshop will walk you through the process of carving your own stamp block and hand printing with a single-colour process.

Introduction to Linocut Printing

Introduction to Linocut Printing

Flycatcher Press

In this three-hour course we will focus on the fundamentals of design for linoleum block prints, carving a small stamp block (2"x3") on soft-cut lino, and a larger design for printing on the printing press (4"x 6") to make an edition of identical prints.

AI Lab: Rapid Prototyping with Figma Make

AI Lab: Rapid Prototyping with Figma Make

Professional, in-person training to use AI responsibly and rapidly prototype design & product concepts. Learn to deliver beautiful, functional prototypes fast, and iterate with ease.

2 Colour Riso Workshop

2 Colour Riso Workshop

Take home 25qty 11x17" 2-colour Risograph prints of your own creation, plus a print exchange with all workshop participants. In this workshop participants will learn to digitally colour separate an artwork, prepare a file for print, print with a risograph in 2 colours.

Zine Workshop

Zine Workshop

Big River Bindery

Learn how to make DIY publications for sharing art and ideas. In this workshop, we will make two zines - one out of a single page, and a sewn pamphlet - and fill them using drawing, writing, and collage.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Create, cut and paste pieces with a myriad of materials—from contemporary to vintage, and everything in between!—to create memory. Craft a blessing, build a vision board or remix a love poem for things to come. The experience is the joy! Invite your curiosity out on date, or bring a kid, parent, partner or pal: collage is for everyone.

Trademarks explained: From legal rules to business decisions

Trademarks explained: From legal rules to business decisions

Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Join us for this live webinar where we’ll learn how trademark strategies can support your business goals both legally and practically. Joining the discussion will be Paula Clancy, partner and trademark agent at Gowling WLG’s Ottawa office, and Michael Shortt, partner and trademark agent at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP’s Montreal office.

PodCamp Toronto

PodCamp Toronto

PodCamp Toronto

PodCamp Toronto is an open, community-driven event for anyone creating online. Designers, makers, and digital storytellers come together to share skills, ideas, and real-world experience in a collaborative setting.

Drawing with Felt & Thread

Drawing with Felt & Thread

Spend a weekend exploring how to create textile drawings using thread and felt as your pencil and paint.

Geary Art Crawl

Geary Art Crawl

Geary Art Crawl

Geary Art Crawl is a two-day, rain-or-shine festival celebrating art, culture, and community on Geary Avenue in Toronto's west end. Featuring live music, visual art installations, local vendors, food, and pop-up markets, the event transforms the area into a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly space for people to experience the local arts scene.

Intro to Silkscreen (Intensive)

Intro to Silkscreen (Intensive)

inPrint Collective

Interested in screen but intimidated by the process? In this workshop, you'll receive an intensive introduction to emulsion-based silkscreen and demystify the practice so you can do it at home.

Leaders in Fintech: Designing the Future of Financial Experiences

Leaders in Fintech: Designing the Future of Financial Experiences

Join us for an insightful panel discussion featuring design leaders from across the financial services ecosystem as they explore how design drives trust, usability, and innovation in fintech.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Create, cut and paste pieces with a myriad of materials—from contemporary to vintage, and everything in between!—to create memory. Craft a blessing, build a vision board or remix a love poem for things to come. The experience is the joy! Invite your curiosity out on date, or bring a kid, parent, partner or pal: collage is for everyone.

Past Events

'Cause maybe they'll happen again, y'know?

Collage Night

Digital Marketing for Artists & Creatives

From Figma to Real Website

Dog Draw XI: New Year, New Ball

Intermediate Relief Printing: Reduction

Lino Cut Workshop

Paperworks with Paul Dotey

Mindful Monoprint: Pochoir Stenciling

DesignTO Launch Party 2026

Research Roundtable: Toronto

Zine Making Workshop at SVI

A Strange Beauty

The UXR Morning Roast

Find Magazine Issue No.2 Launch

Art Battle Toronto

The Cost of Growth - Film Screening and Conversation with Climate Designers

Ligatures Talk Series #4

TORONTO THEORY #2: Toronto Joy, Toronto Greatness

Collage Night

Intro to Product Design

Intro to Digital Marketing

Print Studio 101

Type Design @ The Combine

Letterpress Club at Open Studio

Introduction to Calligraphy Workshop

Letterpress Posters: Resolutions!

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