Toronto Design Week

Toronto Design Week is the unofficial name of the events and exhibitions hosted by DesignTO, formerly known as the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. It is a design showcase in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where numerous design exhibitions take place over a period of approximately one week towards the end of January.[1][2][3]

DesignTO (formerly Toronto Design Offsite Festival)


Concurrently, the annual not-for-profit Toronto Design Offsite Festival (DesignTO) hosts over 100 design-related exhibitions, events, talks and workshops at various venues across Toronto, including the TO DO Festival Symposium, the Interior Design Show, Outside the Box, Living Well, TO DO Festival Party, Gladstone Hotel's Come Up To My Room, an established annual alternative showcase for local design in its own right.[3][4] Schools with design programs, including OCAD University, Ryerson University, Sheridan College, and George Brown College also organize student exhibitions during the Festival.[5][6][7][8]

Interior Design Show


The biggest self-produced event during the festival is the annual Interior Design Show with over 50,000 visitors, the largest consumer fair of its kind in Canada.[9][10]

References
  1. "Toronto Design Week 2010". Wallpaper Magazine. 4 Feb 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  2. Nathalie Atkinson (28 Jan 2011). "Retail Therapy: Canadian design at MADE at Home". National Post. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  3. Andrea Carson (21 Jan 2014). "Toronto's Alternative Design Week: TO DO Festival". Huffington Post Style. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  4. "Toronto Design Offsite Festival on now!". Canadian Architect. 20 Jan 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  5. OCAD U celebrates Design Week with TC+OUO3 Archived 2014-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Toronto Design Week Features SID Student Designs Archived 2014-03-04 at Archive.today
  7. Sheridan furniture students exhibit in downtown Toronto during Design Week
  8. Lots to see and hear during Toronto Design Week
  9. Tory Healy (27 Jan 2012). "IDS 2012: Highlights from Studio North & Prototype". Azure Magazine. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  10. Jean Grant (24 Jan 2014). "Slideshow: the 21 coolest home products on display at the Interior Design Show 2014". Toronto Life. Retrieved 31 March 2014.


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