The 2013 Toronto Design Offsite Festival

The 2013 Toronto Design Offsite Festival, “TO DO” returns to Toronto in late January.

What TO DO about the Toronto Design Festival? Attend and Enjoy

"Toronto Design Offsite 2013" detail from the TO DO web site (modified by Mike DeHaan)
“Toronto Design Offsite 2013” detail from the TO DO web site (modified by Mike DeHaan)

The third annual TO DO Festival runs Jan. 21-27, 2013. It features the best Canadian designers working independently in graphic design, industrial design and interior design. It’s become an important and popular annual winter event in Toronto for aficionados, students and practitioners of design.

Note that many of their art exhibits will remain on display beyond the end of the TO DO design festival itself.

Visit their site to learn the schedule and venues for the 42 events (by my count), which include art installations, exhibitions of the designers’ works, lectures and related activities. I’ve noticed that almost all events say “admission is free“, but there are exceptions.

Several events caught my attention about this festival of design.

I noticed “Ash out of Quarantine…” because I own some ash furniture, and because I’ve written several articles about the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect pest of concern to the designers, Brothers Dressler. See the exhibit at ARTiculations, at 2928 Dundas St. West (just west of Keele St.) from Jan. 19 through Feb. 17.

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A short walk away, Smash will host a free reception and product launch at 2880 Dundas West at Keele on Jan. 19 only. They base their industrial design for bookshelves on 19th century library shelves.

Tables, Chairs and Other Unrelated Objects” will be displayed in the Student Gallery at OCAD from Jan. 16 through Feb. 9, 2013; but only Wednesdays through Saturdays from noon to 6pm. OCAD, at 52 McCaul Street, is one of the best design schools in Canada.

The Trade Toronto Show requires admission by barter. It’s on Jan. 21 at the Centre for Social Innovation (215 Spadina Ave., 4th floor); and Jan. 23, 25 and 26 at Graven Feather (906 Queen St. West at the west border of Trinity Bellwoods Park). Trade School Toronto provides educational opportunities on a barter basis. The official TO DO schedule page provides more information.

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