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Annual Report 2019–2020 Annual Report 2019–2020 DesignTO Festival is Canada’s leading (and largest) annual design festival that celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making, with over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week each January. 10 Over the past decade, we welcomed over 600,000 visitors, Years worked with 4,500 artists and designers, and reached 15 million users through print and digital media. At the 2020 Festival, we presented 100+ exhibitions, talks, tours, 100+ free events and exhibitions and installations across Toronto. DesignTO is about creativity, community, and experimentation. Since 2011, DesignTO has been bringing communities together to celebrate design, by taking art and design out of the studio 160K+ 800+ and into the urban realm. visitors artists & designers Featuring the work of hundreds of designers each year, the Festival showcases locally made furniture, lighting, products, graphic and experiential design, interiors and architecture, Digital Audience art installations, and more. As a non-profit arts organization, the festival emphasizes collaboration and the expression of personal values and 24K+ 26K+ 15K+ identities through the creative process. Facebook followers Instagram followers E-newsletter subscribers We are Toronto. 160K visitors annually 17 DesignTO Team members Creative 88% of the DesignTO Team and 43% of visitors work in the design industry Diverse 71% of the DesignTO Team and 53% of visitors identify as either a visible minority, person of colour, LGBTX, person with a disability, youth, or indigenous Youthful 59% of the DesignTO Team and 56% of visitors are 34 or under Educated 94% of the DesignTO Team and 82% of visitors have a college or university degree “DesignTO does so much for designers; they have been able to bring a lot of different people in the creative industries together. They’ve also made design in Toronto more accessible, not just for people in design but for people who want to discover design.” Christian Lo, Co-founder, Anony A Long Story II by Lauren Pirie. Festival Map The 2020 DesignTO Festival presented 100+ events across the city of Toronto, reaching as far as Eglinton Avenue to the north, Queens Quay to the south, Main Street to the east, and Weston Road to the west. Venues included galleries, building lobbies, storefront windows, and showrooms. Legend: Subway Exhibitions Events Window Installations 37 40 13 44 24 Yonge + Yonge + St. Clair St. Clair Ave. W. St. Clair St. Clair Ave. E. 18 21 Delisle Ave. Junction 30 8 2 2 Wallace 27 7 St. Clair Ave. W. Dundas St. W. Emerson 26 29 43 6 46 35 22 10 14 Dupont St. Dupont St. Yorkville 14 63 1 32 8 Yonge St. Yonge Yonge St. Yonge Yonge St. Yonge Yonge St. Yonge Davenport Rd. St. Yonge Line 1 Subway Line 1 Subway Line 1 Subway 15 Line 1 Subway 4 Mount Pleasant Rd. Bloordale Mount Pleasant Rd. Keele St. Keele Keele St. Keele Quebec Ave. 39 39 Dufferin St. Dufferin Dufferin St. Dufferin Village St. Dufferin Dundas W. St. Dundas W. St. Dundas W. St. Dovercourt Rd. Dovercourt Dovercourt Rd. Dovercourt Dovercourt Rd. Dovercourt Koreatown The Annex 24 Christie Pits 35 36 Bloor St. W. Bloor St. W. Bloor St. W. Danforth Ave. Line 2 Subway Line 2 Subway Line 2 Subway Line 2 Subway 23 34 Harbord St. Harbord St. 6 Wellesley Ave. E. 52 Pape Ave. Pape Brockton Little University Ave. Pape Ossington Ave. 11 Ossington Ave. 38 Gladstone Ave. Gladstone Ave. Gladstone Ave. Sterling Rd Sterling Sterling Rd Sterling Sterling Rd Sterling Village Italy of Toronto Riverdale 26 27 Ossington Ave. College St. Carlton St. 1616 Cabbagetown 58 27 20 22 42 12 Roncesvalles Gerrard St. E. Gerrard St. E. Dundas St. W. Kensington 51 13 OCAD Shaw St. Shaw St. Grace Shaw St. Shaw St. St. Grace Grace Village St. Shaw High Park Bathurst St. Bathurst Bathurst St. Bathurst Bathurst St. Bathurst Market University 17 Yonge St. Yonge Yonge St. Yonge Yonge St. Yonge McCaul St. McCaul St. McCaul St. Beverley St. Beverley Beverley St. Beverley Beverley St. Beverley Ryerson Spadina Ave. Spadina Ave. Line 1 Subway Line 1 Subway Line 1 Subway University Ave. University Line 1 Subway University Ave. University Line 1 Subway Artscape 59 17 53 Ave. University Line 1 Subway 14 Leslie St. Leslie Leslie St. Leslie Little 7 5 University Regent Park St. Leslie Carlaw Ave. Carlaw Carlaw Ave. Carlaw 67 Youngplace Ave. Carlaw 24 Portugal Dundas St. W. 19 Dundas St. W. Dundas St. E. 22 68 25 Parkside Dr. Parkside Parkside Dr. Parkside Parkside Dr. Parkside 11 18 19 62 29 Broadview Ave. Broadview Broadview Ave. Broadview Roncesvalles Ave. Roncesvalles Ave. Lansdowne Roncesvalles Ave. Roncesvalles Roncesvalles Ave. Roncesvalles Ave. Lansdowne Lansdowne Ave. Lansdowne 6 Chinatown 39 Ave. Broadview Don Valley Pkwy. Don Valley Don Valley Pkwy. Don Valley 4 Pkwy. Don Valley 41 61 Church St. Church Jarvis St. Church St. Church Jarvis St. 15 23 50 36 31 1 45 9 17 70 St. Church Jarvis St. 5 Parliament St. Parliament Parliament St. Parliament Parliament St. Parliament Sherbourne St. Sherbourne St. Queen St. W. Queen St. W. Sherbourne St. KingKing East East Design Design District District Gardiner ExpresswayGardiner Expressway 19 23 88 Parkdale 71 Queen West Gladstone 31 31 Hotel Richmond St. W. Richmond St. W. 3 48 57 12 St. Parliament Parliament St. Parliament Parliament St. Parliament Peter St. Peter Peter St. Peter Ave. Bayview Bayview Ave. Bayview Peter St. Peter King East Ave. Ave. Bayview Sherbourne St. Sherbourne St. Sherbourne St. 47 12 Jarvis St. Jarvis St. 9 9 Adelaide St. W. Dufferin St. Dufferin Dufferin St. Dufferin Dufferin St. Dufferin 16 25 26 Design AdelaideAdelaide St. E.St. E. 47 District 3737 10 9 10 309 King St. W. King St. W. 30 4 20 25 2121 65 652 102 Bay St. Bay Bay St. Bay 15 St. Bay 25 11113333 5 King King St.King E. St. E. 10 Harbourfront 6969 Liberty West 18 Centre Front St. E. Liberty St. stackt Village Front St. W. 21 28 54 Mill St. Niagara St. Niagara Niagara St. Niagara Niagara St. Niagara market 60 1 34 20 13 Strachan Ave. Strachan Strachan Ave. Strachan Strachan Ave. Strachan 16 32 55 Union Station 33 56 64 28 Gardiner Expressway Gardiner Expressway Gardiner Expressway 3 7 49 Lake Shore Blvd. W. 38 66 QueensQueens Quay Quay E. E. Festival Hot Spots Mjolk 10yr Anniversary in the Junction. Themselves Exhibition at stackt market. Come Up To My Room. Photo by Simon Liao Photo by Breanne Jeethan Photo by Hannah Nguyen Gladstone Hotel Junction & Junction Triangle stackt market 3 events and exhibitions, including ‘Come Up To My 5 events and exhibitions 7 events and exhibitions, including the group Room’, a founding exhibition exhibition ‘Themselves’ Inverted Valleys by Interspatial Art & Design Collective. When it Gets Dark, I Have Shallow Breath by Laura Kay Keeling They Feed Off Buildings at Bulthaup Toronto. Photo by Jiin Park at Dying.exhibits in Artscape Youngplace Photo by Harry Choi Yonge + St. Clair Artscape Youngplace King East Design District 7 events and exhibitions 4 exhibitions 13 events and exhibitions Funders + Partners Major Funders Program Partners Partners Media Partners after modern.lab visual commun- ication Association Partner Supporters Cultural Partners Toronto Presented by “Toronto is an extraordinarily diverse city, our Indigenous communities, our black communities, our POC communities, our queer communities … there are so many communities that are able to use the festival as a platform to have their perspectives embraced. That’s very unique.” Dori Tunstall, Dean of Design, OCAD U Dark Curves by Djuna Day. Photo by Jiin Park 10th Anniversary Projects DesignTO Youth New DesignTO Website New DesignTO iOS Mobile App Launch Party The must-attend bash kicked off the 10-day Festival, hosting 1,000 VIPs, designers, architects, artists, and design- lovers in the historic Berkeley Church in Old Town Toronto. The party featured a site-specific installation conceptualized by Mexico- based multidisciplinary design studio Anagrama and lighting installation by Salex. DesignTO Launch Party. Photo by Huy Tran Future Retropsectives ‘Future Retrospectives’ featured the work of eleven local and international artists and designers, unified by a shared methodology: using the past as a lens through which we imagine the future. The exhibition asked, “what will the future look like, and how did we get there?” Artists and designers were Graysha Audren, Mia Cinelli, Hannah Claus, Cassandra Ferguson, Tsēmā Igharas, Andreas Krätschmer, SHATTERED MOON ALLIANCE, Studio Björn Steinar, Adhavan Sundaramurthy, Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart, and Jessica Thalmann. Future Retropsectives Work/Life Responding a significant issue of contemporary urban life: “Spaces are getting smaller, but what we need them to do for us is only growing larger,” ‘Work/Life’ showcased new prototypes. The fifth year of the exhibition showcased the work of ten Canadian designers and studios including Annie Tung Creative, Castor Design, Department of Unusual Certainties, Joseph Zhuang, Keillor MacLeod, Mezzaluna Studio, Mickey LaForge, Plural, Radical Norms, and Studio Node. Loop Light by Plural, Work/Life winning design. Photo by Huy Tran PLATED Guest curated by Catherine Osborne for DesignTO, ‘PLATED’ was a celebratory feast of local design. Hosted at the home of DesignTO co- founder Shaun Moore, guests enjoyed cocktails, wine pairings by Trail Estate Winery, and a multiple-course dinner by The Tempered Room, where every dish, bowl, and drinking vessel was crafted by Canadian artists and designers. Participating designers included Castor Design, Dear Human, FELT Studio (Kathryn Walter), Vanessa Lee Jackson, April Martin, meilen, Talia Silva, Kristian Spreen, Jamie Wolfond, and Patrick Yeung, with flowers by Emblem Flower Studio (Todd Caldwell). PLATED. Photo by Christine Lim Design to Play DesignTO held its first-ever event focused on puzzles and play at the global headquarters of Spin Master, where in-house game designers oversaw gaming stations, guided play and provided insight on their design process.
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