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Toronto design event calendar

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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Sashiko Embroidery: A Slow Stitch Workshop

Stitch & Salvage

"Recycle - Reuse - Renew" by Gail Blima

Riverdale Hub Gallery

Art of the Book Festival

Art of the Book Festival

Popular Culture in Early Modern English Household Print, 1660-1800

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

It's Dangerous To Go Alone!

UofT Mississauga Library

Carve & Print: Custom Linocut Sketchbooks

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Featured Events

Art of the Book Festival

Art of the Book Festival

Produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and Type A, Inc. Featuring exhibitions, presentations and merchant tables.

Manufacturing Knowledge, A Collage Poster Design Workshop

Asian Arts and Culture Trust

Beginner-friendly collage workshop exploring memory, assumptions, and personal narratives through DIY poster-making and accessible design. This workshop will share basic graphic design principles that participants can reference to turn shapes, letters, textures, patterns into stories, messages, propaganda or any narratives that they would like to reflect on.

Happening Today & Ongoing Exhibitions

Growing Up: A Solo Exhibition by Iliana Sergeev

Growing Up: A Solo Exhibition by Iliana Sergeev

Growing Up: A solo mixed-media exhibition by designer Iliana Sergeev. Exploring motherhood through layered storytelling. Now on view at Wildhearts Cafe (509 Bloor St W) through mid June!

Selling Canada: New work by Christopher Rouleau

Selling Canada: New work by Christopher Rouleau

Christopher Rouleau

Christopher Rouleau's solo exhibition, Selling Canada, will be taking place May 27—June 20, 2026 at The Red Head Gallery in Toronto. This exhibition features ten new large-scale Pop Art paintings centred on Canadian identity and design.

It's Dangerous To Go Alone!

It's Dangerous To Go Alone!

UofT Mississauga Library

This exhibit, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of The Legend of Zelda includes rare editions, console and handheld technologies from the Syd Bolton Collection of video games. It covers The Legend of Zelda franchise, tracing its design and storytelling legacy in video game history.

5th Annual Uptown Pride A Women’s Art Association of Canada Open Call Exhibition

5th Annual Uptown Pride A Women’s Art Association of Canada Open Call Exhibition

Women’s Art Association of Canada

5th Annual Uptown Pride Exhibition a vibrant juried group art show celebrating 2SLGBTQI+ community. Presented at the Dignam Gallery as part of Pride Toronto 2026 Diverse artworks that explore identity, resilience, love and joy.

Popular Culture in Early Modern English Household Print, 1660-1800

Popular Culture in Early Modern English Household Print, 1660-1800

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

Some things do not change much over time, namely the kinds of books people read and keep as reference sources at home. This exhibition showcases materials from the three best-selling genres of later seventeenth and eighteenth-century English print: household manuals, religious works, and light entertainment.

Summer Tenugui Towels: Fireworks, Fireflies, and Yōkai Monsters

Summer Tenugui Towels: Fireworks, Fireflies, and Yōkai Monsters

The Japan Foundation, Toronto

Summer must be the most active season for Tenugui towels. In order to survive through the extreme heat and humidity of summer in Japan, all kinds of customs, culture, and rituals have been created and developed. Tenugui towels were one of the tools to cope with summer in a practical way.

Game On! Exhibition

Game On! Exhibition

Step into Game On! — a vibrant exhibition celebrating the art, culture, and spirit of games through time. From board games to daring sports, each piece invites you to explore how games connect people, spark creativity, and build communities.

Upcoming Events

Art of the Book Festival

Art of the Book Festival

Art of the Book Festival

Produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and Type A, Inc. Featuring exhibitions, presentations and merchant tables.

Beaches Arts + Crafts Market

Beaches Arts + Crafts Market

Beaches Arts & Crafts

Signatures Beaches Arts and Crafts Show is a uniquely Canadian handmade outdoor marketplace in the heart of Toronto’s Beach community that features the works of over 100 independent artists, artisans, makers, and designers.

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. We will be celebrating Pride month and welcoming all participants who identify as a part of the 2SLGBT+ community to collaborate and have fun printing with wood type. Let's celebrate the community we make together.

Manufacturing Knowledge, A Collage Poster Design Workshop

Manufacturing Knowledge, A Collage Poster Design Workshop

Asian Arts and Culture Trust

Beginner-friendly collage workshop exploring memory, assumptions, and personal narratives through DIY poster-making and accessible design. This workshop will share basic graphic design principles that participants can reference to turn shapes, letters, textures, patterns into stories, messages, propaganda or any narratives that they would like to reflect on.

"Recycle - Reuse - Renew" by Gail Blima

"Recycle - Reuse - Renew" by Gail Blima

Riverdale Hub Gallery

Opening reception, live painting, & artist talk for Gail Blima's solo exhibition. Live painting 12-2pm, reception with light refreshments 2-4pm. Meet the artist, ask questions, learn & enjoy!

An afternoon with Sago Mini

An afternoon with Sago Mini

We love connecting with people from the local game community, and we're opening our doors to share our knowledge, innovation, and show off the incredible talent of the Sago Mini team.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Mag 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 Rotman BDI: Designing for Healthcare Futures

DesignMeets X Rotman BDI: Designing for Healthcare Futures

Step into the future of healthcare with this hands-on workshop exploring how futures thinking can expand design practice. Learn about the forces reshaping healthcare and gain a practical introduction to futures methods — from scanning signals and identifying drivers of change, to building plausible future scenarios and designing for uncertainty.

Little Cuts - A Linocut Printmaking Workshop

Little Cuts - A Linocut Printmaking Workshop

Leroy Street Theatre

Get your hands messy and create cool linocut prints in this chill hands-on workshop! Materials and beverage included! Led by actor and artist Izzi Nagel this 3-hour linocut workshop invites you to carve and print your own portrait of a home or beloved pet. Whether you’re a total beginner or a seasoned maker, you’ll be guided from first sketch to final print.

The Great Canadian Jersey

The Great Canadian Jersey

Aga Khan Museum

The Great Canadian Jersey is a commemorative project created by Rogers that celebrates Canada’s deep connection to hockey by uniting pieces of jerseys from every province and territory into a single patchwork design.

RGD’s The Creative Lens

RGD’s The Creative Lens

Registered Association of Graphic Designers (RGD)

This panel discussion will explore how standards, expectations and definitions of “good design” continue to evolve across disciplines and industries.

Introduction to the Book Arts

Introduction to the Book Arts

Big River Bindery

Join us for Introduction to the Book Arts. We will learn about the tools and materials you’ll need and make some books. In one night, we’ll touch on different styles of book construction, and you’ll go home with a stack of handmade books.

Ghost Signs of Toronto

Ghost Signs of Toronto

Heritage Toronto

Toronto’s walls still have stories to tell. On this tour, learn how to spot ghost signs: fading painted ads left behind on buildings across the city. Discover what these disappearing signs can tell us about Toronto’s past, and sharpen your eye for the hidden history still visible above our streets.

38Fundraiser

38Fundraiser

This fundraiser and art exhibition event supports opportunities for Black artists and creatives in Toronto while creating space for meaningful conversations and collaboration.

Crafts & Crafts: Zine Making for Village Building

Crafts & Crafts: Zine Making for Village Building

Handmade Jungle

A conversation and craft night about practical steps for building your village. Throughout the evening, you will be encouraged to create a zine with a variety of materials that helps to support you in taking the steps to build your village; whether that is within your neighbourhood, through your business, or any other aspect of your life.

Winsor Newton Oil Colours with Olivia Di Gregorio

Winsor Newton Oil Colours with Olivia Di Gregorio

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Oil colour has been around for 600 years but it can still be daunting. If you’ve wanted to dive into oil painting but don’t know where to start, this demo with Olivia will help take the mystery out of the materials and painting process.

Carve & Print: Custom Linocut Sketchbooks

Carve & Print: Custom Linocut Sketchbooks

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Create your own linocut stamp to print on a kraft cover, lay-flat sketchbook. You’ll leave with a unique sketchbook, fine art prints and the knowledge of how to set up a printmaking space at home. Beginners welcome. All materials provided.

Letterpress Printing Workshop

Letterpress Printing Workshop

Big River Bindery

Join us as we use the wood and metal type at the shop to print posters, cards, and mementos. In this workshop students will learn how to properly run letterpress equipment and make their own printed artwork.

One Sheet Books

One Sheet Books

Big River Bindery

You don’t need thread and glue to make a book. In this workshop, we’ll make books with a single sheet of paper and some cutting and folding. Join us to learn several quick and easy ways of putting books together with just a few tools.

Leaders in Design: User-Centred Innovation

Leaders in Design: User-Centred Innovation

Join us for a forward-looking conversation with design leaders exploring how deep user insight, experimentation, and outcome-driven thinking shape the most impactful products and experiences.

Zine Shine

Zine Shine

Issues Mag Shop

Zine Shine is a two-week zine extravaganza, showcasing the range and vibrancy of zine culture in Toronto (and across the country!) We'll be exhibiting a wide selection of zine here at the shop. Everything will be available for sale in-store and online, and our hope is to expose our magazine-loving community to all the excitement of zine culture!

Toronto Outdoor Art Fair

Toronto Outdoor Art Fair

Toronto Outdoor Art Fair

TOAF is inclusive, accessible and radically welcoming to all artists and art enthusiasts. For over 60 years, TOAF has been a key part in launching and sustaining the careers of 20,000 Canadian artists by directly connecting them to millions of art lovers, and public and private institutions.

Endpaper Construction Methods

Endpaper Construction Methods

Big River Bindery

Endpapers, or the folded paper that connects the textblock of a book to its cover, have changed over time. Join us in making models of endpapers, looking at the function of their varied parts and changes over time.

Fabric Printing Workshop

Fabric Printing Workshop

Ed's Mercantile

Discover the art of transforming plain textiles into vibrant, personalized creations in this hands-on Fabric Printing workshop. Designed for beginners and creatives alike, this session introduces a variety of printing techniques such as block printing, stencil design and more.

Paste Paper Workshop

Paste Paper Workshop

Big River Bindery

This paper decorating technique has been used historically for book covers and endsheets. A paint and paste mixture is applied to paper with brushes, then patterned with an assortment of combs, tools, and stamps.

Sashiko Embroidery: A Slow Stitch Workshop

Sashiko Embroidery: A Slow Stitch Workshop

Stitch & Salvage

Learn traditional Japanese sashiko embroidery and start your visible mending journey. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: Traditional sashiko stitch Visible mending basics Cultural history

Past Events

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

Zines 4 Democracy

The Art of Stoneground Watercolour: Meet, Test & Connect

Linocut & Letterpress Posters

(Re)Weaving: A Tapestry Making Workshop

Create your own Mahjong tile workshop

Good Friends Market

AccessFest 2026

Summer Tenugui Towels: Fireworks, Fireflies, and Yōkai Monsters

Things from the Future - Speculative Design with AI

Designers Upcycled Craft Night Social

Ligatures Talk Series #6

Design Talk: Stephanie Yung & Ryan Crouchman

Livecoding Workshop: Music + Visuals On-the-fly

Gwartzman's Under the Neon Palm

Graphic art with promarkers

Kensington Market Art Fair

Toronto Prop Expo

Drum Leaf Binding Workshop

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