Contributors past and present reflect on the festival’s impact and how it captures Canadian design today
Every winter, the team behind Toronto’s city-wide festival, DesignTO, endeavour to beat the winter blahs by amplifying the exuberance of contemporary spaces, furniture, objects and art. Since its founding in 2010 , DesignTO has welcomed over a million visitors. According to Jeremy Vandermeij, the festival’s co-founder and executive director, they keep coming back because of its commitment to the three values being highlighted at the 2025 event: sustainability, social justice and joy.
“Our studio was in its infancy when we started doing DesignTO; we launched in 2011 and first participated in 2013. We used a client’s giant warehouse space to create an immersive installation that explored light and sound, to see how they could shift people’s emotions and memories during the show. On the day-to-day, we work with clients and there are always constraints to each project.
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