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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PodCamp Toronto

PodCamp Toronto

Design After-Hours TO: Winter 2026

Design Evenings TO: Designing for Speed and Scale with AI

Marketing Evenings TO: Inside Team Canada’s 2026 Olympic Brand

Intro to Digital Marketing

Intro to UX Design

Featured Events

Letterpress Notecards

Flycatcher Press

In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn about the history and art of typesetting and letterpress printing the best way possible - by printing! Using metal type and ornaments from our collection and printing on our tabletop presses, you'll typeset and print a personalized set of notecards on cotton paper and go home with a beautiful custom stationery set.

Yule Sketch Night

Join us for a cozy, creative workshop designed for anyone who wants to fall back in love with sketching and doodling. Guided by local Toronto artist and designer Meghana Ravi, this workshop is designed both for seasoned pros and nervous beginners. You will get to stretch those creative muscles through guided prompts, drinks and snacks.

Happening Today

Maker's Market

Maker's Market

Maker’s Market is BACK on December 4th! Our annual holiday market returns with an even bigger mix of handmade goods and creative pieces, from fun hats to original artwork, holiday cards, EP CDs, and so much more. There’s something for everyone on your list!

City of Craft 2025

City of Craft 2025

The Theatre Centre

City of Craft aims to build community in the Toronto craftscape, support independent artists and craftspeople, and encourages the larger community to get involved with crafty happenings in the city.

CTRL+SHIFT - Vol 8 Creative Tech Meetup

CTRL+SHIFT - Vol 8 Creative Tech Meetup

Join us for our final CTRL+SHIFT of the year. This edition features three speakers sharing their launch stories across projects built with AI, built for AI, and of course, a touch of filmmaking magic.

Upcoming Events

Glad Day's Queer Art & Craft Market : Holiday Edition

Glad Day's Queer Art & Craft Market : Holiday Edition

It's the best place to find that unique gift for yourself or someone else. The market features artists with a wide range of items : buttons, visual art, pottery, zines, clothing, comics, jewellery, knick-knacks and much more! More than 50 vendors over 2 days.

Hand Lettered Holiday Cards with Erica Pinto

Hand Lettered Holiday Cards with Erica Pinto

Why buy a holiday card when you can make a beautiful one by hand? Join us for another exciting workshop led by artist Erica Pinto, who will walk you through the process of creating one-of-a-kind hand-lettered holiday greeting cards and gift tags.

Holiday Market

Holiday Market

Northern Contemporary

We’re excited to be hosting another series of Holiday Markets for 2025 at Northern Contemporary!

The Green Line Zine Workshop

The Green Line Zine Workshop

Come join The Green Line to learn the art of zine-making! Whether you’re an avid zine-maker or a newbie, all are welcome to chat and craft.

Leaders in Fintech: Designing the Bank of the Future

Leaders in Fintech: Designing the Bank of the Future

Join us for a forward-looking conversation on how design is transforming the future of banking. This session explores user-centred strategies that are reinventing the banking experience, building trust through transparency, and harnessing AI to create more personalized financial services.

Kids + Adults Lego Letterpress Holiday

Kids + Adults Lego Letterpress Holiday

Flycatcher Press

In this course you'll learn how to design and print using lego tiles set on a baseplate which will then be printed on our line-o-scribe proofing press and hand-inked. Our designs will likely be one-colour only. Participants leave with a set of 8 printed postcards with their unique design to distribute to friends and family!

SEO for Creatives

SEO for Creatives

Findable Digital Marketing

This beginner-friendly workshop is designed for creatives who want their work to show up on Google.

Letterpress Notecards

Letterpress Notecards

Flycatcher Press

In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn about the history and art of typesetting and letterpress printing the best way possible - by printing! Using metal type and ornaments from our collection and printing on our tabletop presses, you'll typeset and print a personalized set of notecards on cotton paper and go home with a beautiful custom stationery set.

Yule Sketch Night

Yule Sketch Night

Join us for a cozy, creative workshop designed for anyone who wants to fall back in love with sketching and doodling. Guided by local Toronto artist and designer Meghana Ravi, this workshop is designed both for seasoned pros and nervous beginners. You will get to stretch those creative muscles through guided prompts, drinks and snacks.

Lego Letterpress Holiday

Lego Letterpress Holiday

Flycatcher Press

Sometimes we just want to play with legos as adults. This class is the perfect evening to spend some time making something cute - no drawing skills required! We will design and print two-colour holiday designs using lego tiles. Participants bring home 10 cards+envelopes each.

Letterpress Club at Open Studio

Letterpress Club at Open Studio

Join us for Letterpress Club as we gather around the Vandercook 4T and make some text-based prints around a different theme each month.

Good Friends Market

Good Friends Market

Good Friends Market

We are celebrating the Holiday season with two more market weekends! Catch us back at a familiar spot - just follow the shapes and lights! We will have new vendors each weekend so don’t miss out!

Holiday Market

Holiday Market

Northern Contemporary

We’re excited to be hosting another series of Holiday Markets for 2025 at Northern Contemporary!

Loohoo Weird Holiday Market

Loohoo Weird Holiday Market

🔔 We’re jingling all the way into the weird this year with festive mischief, funky gifts, and holiday chaos. Expect quirky ornaments, offbeat art, naughty little treasures, bizarre crafts, ugly sweaters, and all things delightfully untraditional!

Secret Planet Holiday Market

Secret Planet Holiday Market

Secret Planet Gift Shop

We're so happy to host our bestest artist friends this month for two unforgettable market dates. We're hyped. Complete your christmas shopping lists with us! We'll have some deals and promos as well. You gotta show up to find out what they'll be though! Free to attend! Good vibes guaranteed!

Coptic Bookbinding

Coptic Bookbinding

Join me to learn one of my favorite book structures, the Coptic binding. This beautiful book will have hard covers and an exposed spine so you can see the stitching. It lays flat when open so it’s comfortable for writing, drawing and for lefties like me.

The Conté Club

The Conté Club

Made by Emblem is hosting a drop-in life drawing session on the last Wednesday of each month! Come join Erik Mohr (Creative Director) for a relaxed evening filled with mark-making.

Good Friends Market

Good Friends Market

Good Friends Market

We are celebrating the Holiday season with two more market weekends! Catch us back at a familiar spot - just follow the shapes and lights! We will have new vendors each weekend so don’t miss out!

Holiday Market

Holiday Market

Northern Contemporary

We’re excited to be hosting another series of Holiday Markets for 2025 at Northern Contemporary!

Secret Planet Holiday Market

Secret Planet Holiday Market

Secret Planet Print Shop

We're so happy to host our bestest artist friends this month for two unforgettable market dates. We're hyped. Complete your christmas shopping lists with us! We'll have some deals and promos as well. You gotta show up to find out what they'll be though! Free to attend! Good vibes guaranteed!

Letterpress Posters: Resolutions!

Letterpress Posters: Resolutions!

Flycatcher Press

Mix pattern and type and see what amazing design can be generated from these two relief processes. In this day-long course you'll learn about the history of wood and metal typesetting in letterpress printing and how to design and print a successful letterpress poster.

Letterpress Club at Open Studio

Letterpress Club at Open Studio

Join us for Letterpress Club as we gather around the Vandercook 4T and make some text-based prints around a different theme each month.

Type Design @ The Combine

Type Design @ The Combine

Manic Type x The Combine

In this in-depth 8 week (42 hour) course, we'll be walking you through the process of designing a typeface with the Glyphs app. Participants will immerse themselves in letterforms, exploring calligraphy and sketching, concept development and the type design process.

Design Evenings TO: Building Design Teams That Scale

Design Evenings TO: Building Design Teams That Scale

Lenny Laurier explores how design teams can scale impact while balancing user experience, technical capabilities, and cross-functional alignment. Attendees will gain practical frameworks for hiring and coaching designers, growing culture, and making design a strategic driver across products and organizations of any size.

Intro to Digital Marketing

Intro to Digital Marketing

Join us in Toronto to discover how Digital Marketing connects brands with audiences in measurable ways. In this event, you’ll explore how marketers plan, execute, and measure campaigns that drive growth. This session will give you a clear understanding of today’s digital marketing landscape.

Intro to UX Design

Intro to UX Design

Join us in Toronto to discuss how UX Designers are shaping the world’s most innovative digital products by combining creativity, research, and technical skills to solve real user problems. In this event, you’ll explore what UX Design is, the skills modern designers use, and how design teams collaborate with product and engineering to bring ideas to life.

Marketing Evenings TO: Inside Team Canada’s 2026 Olympic Brand

Join Kelley Tessier, Senior Director of Brand and Digital Marketing at the Canadian Olympic Committee, for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how Team Canada is redefining what it means to represent a nation on the world stage.

Zine Making Workshop at SVI

Zine Making Workshop at SVI

St. Volodymyr Institute

Come spend an afternoon making your own zine using simple, hands-on techniques. This workshop is all about experimenting with folding, cutting, and stitching (no prior experience required).

Intermediate Relief Printing: Reduction

Intermediate Relief Printing: Reduction

Flycatcher Press

This course is for people who have a little relief printing experience or have taken our intro to linocut class. In this 6-hour course you will develop your skills in carving and printing relief prints.

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.

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.

Past Events

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

CTRL+SHIFT - Vol 8 Creative Tech Meetup

City of Craft 2025

Maker's Market

Design Evenings TO: How 1Password is Designing Trust for Products & Teams

Spotlight AI

Toronto Comic Jam

Queen West Holiday Market at Campbell House

Annual Washi Artists' Sale: hosted by The Japanese Paper Place

Lino Printing 2: Reductive Printmaking Workshop – Multi-Colour Prints

Creative Mornings: Growth

The Toronto Pancakes & Booze Art Show

UNDER 100

The Green Line Zine Workshop

Holiday Open House 2025

The Conté Club

Laced Case Binding

Collage Night

Block Printing Workshop - Refresh & Renew

Linocut Printmaking: Holiday Greeting Cards

Closing the Loop: Stop overthinking and actually start your next creative project

In Conversation with Caroline Friesen & Robbie Percy

Hiroshima Appeals: A Poster Exhibition of Global Messages

Mindset & Resilience in a Changing Job Market

Creators of Toronto: Building Brands That Break Through

DesignMeets x Business Design Initiative: AI & Human-Centered Design

Art Battle Toronto

Design Leadership Conference 2025

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Good Friends Market

Good Friends Market

Holiday Market

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