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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Lino Cut Workshop

Northern Contemporary

FEELS Issue 25: Hunger Launch & Ninth Birthday Party!

A Strange Beauty

Akasha Art Projects

Paperworks with Paul Dotey

Hot Pizza Studios

Screenprinting 101 Workshop

Toronto Stationary Show

Toronto Stationary Show

Featured Events

Dog Draw XI: New Year, New Ball

Northern Contemporary

This night of life-drawing has a twist - the models are dogs! Besides the cuteness factor (which will be high) you get to practice a whole different set of textures and anatomy. We’ll have a variety of different dogs and pose styles - you get a night unlike any other and you’ll go home with a stack of personal masterpieces to frame and display.

Find Magazine Issue No.2 Launch

Join us for the first party of the year (and the best so far) to celebrate the launch of Find Issue No.2: Space. Find exists as a physical expression of our connections. As a journal for the curious, it seeks to capture our conversations, investigations, and wide interest in the world around us.

Happening Today & Ongoing Exhibitions

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 Product Design

Intro to Product Design

Join us in Toronto to discuss how Product 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 Product Design is, the skills modern designers use, and how design teams collaborate with product and engineering to bring ideas to

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.

TORONTO THEORY #2: Toronto Joy, Toronto Greatness

TORONTO THEORY #2: Toronto Joy, Toronto Greatness

IRID (Institute for Relational Intelligence in Design)

This series takes seriously the idea that in order to create wonderful things—be them products, organizations, political movements, forms of art—we must first begin by understanding where we live, and how this place works. How can we learn to "build with local materials" when it comes to culture itself?

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

Ligatures Talk Series #4

Ligatures Talk Series #4

Join us on Thursday, January 15th for our next talk series featuring Jay Wall and Sean Martindale!

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

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

Climate Designers Toronto

Join Climate Designers Toronto for an online screening of "The Cost of Growth" followed by conversation about the implications for designers.

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.

Art Battle Toronto

Art Battle Toronto

Art Battle International

Join us for an epic art showdown! Watch as masterful artists craft stunning masterpieces in just 20 minutes per round. Be part of the decision-making process and vote for the ultimate champion. And don't miss your chance to own a piece of the action with the silent auction of all original works!

Find Magazine Issue No.2 Launch

Find Magazine Issue No.2 Launch

Join us for the first party of the year (and the best so far) to celebrate the launch of Find Issue No.2: Space. Find exists as a physical expression of our connections. As a journal for the curious, it seeks to capture our conversations, investigations, and wide interest in the world around us.

The UXR Morning Roast

The UXR Morning Roast

Start your morning the best way possible: with a cup of coffee, great people, and an easy way to connect with other researchers in your city. We’re roasting beans, not people, before the workday begins!

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.

DesignTO Launch Party 2026

DesignTO Launch Party 2026

Join us for the official 2026 DesignTO Launch Party at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, as we kick off our 16th Festival and celebrate DesignTO’s legacy of showcasing and sparking vital conversations about design’s role in shaping a better world.

Research Roundtable: Toronto

Research Roundtable: Toronto

Designed for seasoned IC researchers and those running research teams, Research Roundtable is part of an apply-only, five-part series of events. With small-group sessions, AMAs, and city-specific hosts Dave Chen (1Password) and Eve Cuthbertson (Loblaw Digital), these conversations are meant to surface the challenges and opportunities shaping research today.

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).

Lino Cut Workshop

Lino Cut Workshop

Northern Contemporary

Join us for a Lino Cut workshop with Yoana V., a local artist and printmaker. During the workshop. you will learn how to design, carve, ink, and create your own linocut prints.

Mindful Monoprint: Pochoir Stenciling

Mindful Monoprint: Pochoir Stenciling

inPrint Collective

Perfect for creatives of any experience level, the focus of this workshop will be to create an image using pre-made stencils and soft/chalk pastels, otherwise known as pochoir. Classically used to fill in colour for etchings and relief prints, we will use this method on it's own to develop our art.

Paperworks with Paul Dotey

Paperworks with Paul Dotey

Hot Pizza Studios

This workshop delights in the unlimited possibilities of paper. With Paul Dotey at the helm, make a journal, a cookbook, a guide to your city for visiting friends, a punk zine, a joke book, a manifesto, a commonplace book, a pocket calendar, a record of birds and plants, or whatever you can imagine.

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.

Dog Draw XI: New Year, New Ball

Dog Draw XI: New Year, New Ball

Northern Contemporary

This night of life-drawing has a twist - the models are dogs! Besides the cuteness factor (which will be high) you get to practice a whole different set of textures and anatomy. We’ll have a variety of different dogs and pose styles - you get a night unlike any other and you’ll go home with a stack of personal masterpieces to frame and display.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Past Events

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

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!

Reflective Tiles: Metal Embossing Workshop

Collage Nights

Design Walks: Designing for Joy — A Christmas Market Experience

Secret Planet Holiday Market

Holiday Market

Good Friends Market

Tatreez Wokshop

DesignX Holiday Social: Archetypes & Reflections

Cyanotype Magic: Make Your Prints & Play with Tones!

The Conté Club

Coptic Bookbinding

The Maybe Market

Secret Planet Holiday Market

Loohoo Weird Holiday Market

Holiday Market

Good Friends Market

Lego Letterpress Holiday

Letterpress Club at Open Studio

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