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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From wax to metal: Ring Workshop

SOUVENIR STUDIOS x Katya Koroscil

V-day Ring Workshop

SOUVENIR STUDIOS x Katya Koroscil

Cover to Cover: A Mini Magazine Conference

Issues Magazine Shop

Amazing! Fantastic! Astounding! Science Fiction and the Pulp Magazines

Toronto Public Library

Loops, Swoops & Curlicues: A Legacy of Handwritten History

Toronto Public Library

Still Life Painting: Ceremonial Lion Head

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Featured Events

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.

Love Letters - Wood Type Poster

Flycatcher Press

In this 2-hour workshop, you'll be introduced to a brief history and art of typesetting and letterpress printing the best way possible - by printing! Using wood type from our collection and printing on our vintage sign press, you'll typeset and print a small souvenir poster with your phrase and take home a few copies to share.

Happening Today & Ongoing Exhibitions

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.

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.

Loops, Swoops & Curlicues: A Legacy of Handwritten History

Loops, Swoops & Curlicues: A Legacy of Handwritten History

Toronto Public Library

The value of cursive writing has become a matter of debate as rapid technological changes make the need to put pen to paper increasingly rare. This exhibition showcases a variety of formats that researchers make use of such as personal letters, diaries, and notebooks as well as public documents, business records and hand-drawn maps.

Upcoming Events

Show Your Work: Easy Intro to Motion

Show Your Work: Easy Intro to Motion

Fraymer Community

In this free workshop, we’ll break down the fundamentals of animation and motion graphics in a way that’s approachable for creators, founders, students, and anyone who wants to present their work in more captivating ways.

Love Letters - Wood Type Poster

Love Letters - Wood Type Poster

Flycatcher Press

In this 2-hour workshop, you'll be introduced to a brief history and art of typesetting and letterpress printing the best way possible - by printing! Using wood type from our collection and printing on our vintage sign press, you'll typeset and print a small souvenir poster with your phrase and take home a few copies to share.

V-day Ring Workshop

V-day Ring Workshop

SOUVENIR STUDIOS x Katya Koroscil

For beginners and experienced makers alike. Sculpt and form your ring in wax, then wear it cast in sterling silver. Guided by industrial designer Katya Koroscil at Souvenir Studios.

Amazing! Fantastic! Astounding! Science Fiction and the Pulp Magazines

Amazing! Fantastic! Astounding! Science Fiction and the Pulp Magazines

Toronto Public Library

The pulps were fiction magazines that dominated North America from the 1890s to the 1950s. For over half a century, they were the most affordable source of mass entertainment. And they were also the main source of science fiction. Explore the rise and fall of the pulps. Discover decades-old pulps, original pulp art, books and more.

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.

From wax to metal: Ring Workshop

From wax to metal: Ring Workshop

SOUVENIR STUDIOS x Katya Koroscil

For beginners and experienced makers alike. Sculpt and form your ring in wax, then wear it cast in sterling silver. Guided by industrial designer Katya Koroscil at Souvenir Studios.

Library of Love: A Sketch Night by Drawn Together

Library of Love: A Sketch Night by Drawn Together

@drawn.together.to / @meggu_makes

F all back in love with sketching and drawing. You will get to explore love beyond the obvious - love for self, love for others, love for ritual, love for small everyday moments, and love for the simple act of making marks on a page.

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.

Open Studio

Open Studio

Join us for Open Studio, a space to explore your creativity, connect with others, and simply create without judgment. Whether you want to doodle, colour, write, or just relax, this is your time to do what inspires you, alongside like-minded folks.

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.

Still Life Painting: Ceremonial Lion Head

Still Life Painting: Ceremonial Lion Head

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

This CNY celebrate with Elmo, a ceremonial lion head and your model, for an evening of still life painting with professional artist Anson Ng. Materials provided; beginners welcome. Includes a blank canvas for you to paint and take home!

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.

Cover to Cover: A Mini Magazine Conference

Cover to Cover: A Mini Magazine Conference

Issues Magazine Shop

On Sunday, March 22, join us for a one-day conference that celebrates the people, ideas, and stories shaping magazines today—across independent titles, commercial giants, and the many voices and businesses that support them.

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?

Design After-Hours TO: Winter 2026

Design x AI: What Are We Actually Figuring Out?

DesignMeets X OCAD U: Design & The Love Economy

Collage Night

Pressure Printing Valentines

Bamtori's Vday Market

Screenprinting 101 Workshop

Gel Plate Monoprints on Washi using Custom Stencils & Masks

Lego Letterpress Valentines

Collage Night: The Series

Loops, Swoops & Curlicues: A Legacy of Handwritten History

Work and Play: Data for Designers

Trace Monotypes on Washi with Helen McCusker

Otherworld: DesignTO Youth Showcase

FEELS Issue 25: Hunger Launch & Ninth Birthday Party!

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

2 Colour Riso Workshop

Design Evenings TO: Designing for Speed and Scale with AI

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

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