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OCAD U’s annual Design Career Fair is one of Toronto’s largest events for talent recruitment and careers in design. Each year we invite top design firms from a variety of disciplines including Graphic Design, Illustration, Advertising, Industrial Design, Material Art & Design, Environmental Design, Expanded Animation, Digital Futures, Inclusive Design, Design for Health, and Strategic Foresight & Innovation. OCAD U students and alums bring their portfolios to meet with the top firms and learn about their hiring strategies.
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Registration for employers
Whether you're hiring immediately, reviewing candidates for future opportunities, building a freelance roster or boosting awareness of your company on campus, reserve your booth today. Space is limited.
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Schedule of Events
2026 Design Career Fair Preparation Webinar: Tips for Building an Impactful Portfolio Website with Format.com
Thursday, January 15, 2026 | 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
This webinar will be led by Stanzie Tooth from Format.com
2026 Design Career Fair Speaker Series
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
115 McCaul Street, Level 3, Toronto, ON, M5T 1W1
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM | Your Work is Already Enough: Building a Portfolio You’re Proud to Share
This workshop will be led by Christopher Miller, an OCAD U alum (Illustration) and Senior UX Designer at Electronic Arts | Frostbite.
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM | Transition from Student Life to Working in Design
This workshop features designers from Interac, BMO, RBC, and Relay.
2026 Design Career Fair
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
OCAD University, Great Hall, 100 McCaul St. 2nd Floor
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2026 exhibitors & speakers
Salt XC
Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.
Our mission is to "Earn The World's Attention" and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients' audiences. We've structured our agency to do what's right for our clients - to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.
We're committed to living up to the values in our name. "Salt of The Earth" means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We're looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what's right for our clients.
Shutterb
Shutterb is a gig platform that connects event hosts and businesses with smartphone content creators-aka shutterbz-to capture authentic moments with nothing but their phone. We help event organizers, brands, creators, and communities stay present while still getting the content they need to share online. As a shutterb, you'll get paid to capture events and grow your creative skills. We provide the training, tools, and network to help you level up your content game and turn your love of storytelling into paid opportunities.
ChangeMakers
ChangeMakers is a leading independent agency specializing in building purpose-driven brands and strategies that make a meaningful impact. With deep roots in brand strategy, creative, marketing, communications, and Indigenous engagement, our team works across Canada and beyond to help organizations grow and thrive in meaningful ways.
Government of Canada - Public Service Commission of Canada
Promoting and safeguarding a merit-based, representative and non-partisan public service that serves all Canadians, in collaboration with stakeholders. We also manage GC Jobs, providing applicants and managers with a single portal to access all public service job opportunities.
Rethink
Rethink is more of an idea than it is a business. Rethinking changes everything. It's how we see the world. Which is why we're constantly rethinking what's been done in pursuit of setting the standard for the industry.
We're a creative ideas agency that relentlessly pursues work the world talks about. Rethink is fiercely independent and owner-operated, meaning we can work with the people and brands we believe in.
We're a full-service ideas agency that partners with the world's biggest brands. Providing 360° campaigns, strategy, design, digital, production, and public relations.
Umbra Ltd/TCH
We're Umbra...A leading global design company, inspired and driven to perform. We share a vision of creating original, modern, casual and affordable design for every room in the home. We are a privately owned, Canadian company with 40 years of industry experience. Led by one of our founders, our designs can be found in over 120 countries across five continents. Our global success is attributed to our entrepreneurial nature and a desire to push ourselves, and each other, beyond our limits.
Who We Are...TCH is a distributor of ATA-cases, electrotechnical and industrial hardware selling to North American original equipment manufacturers as well as a supplier of foam packaging. TCH fulfills customer requirements from it's warehouse facilities in Buffalo, Calgary, Dallas, Montreal and Toronto.
Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
Intellectual Property (IP) is about more than trademarks and patents. It's about protecting and supporting the things most important to us: our ideas. And as an IP professional, you don't just have a front-row seat to a world of innovation, you're playing a crucial role.
A career in IP industrial design sits at the intersection of creative product design and intellectual property (IP) protection. It's ideal for people who enjoy both aesthetics/functionality and the legal/strategic side of making designs commercially valuable.
Scotiabank
Launch your career at Scotiabank! Our internships and development programs offer students and new graduates the chance to gain hands-on experience, build valuable skills, and connect with industry experts - all while making a meaningful impact across the Bank. Kickstart your professional journey and set yourself up for long-term success.
Intuit
Named one of the Best Companies to work for year after year, Intuit attracts the world's top talent to help power prosperity for approximately 100 million customers globally. Individuals in our entry-level jobs get added support during their first year, while focusing on supporting projects that have a 'real world' impact. Our programs are built to make your transition into your dream career as seamless as possible.
Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Rakuten Kobo is a technology, publishing, and e-commerce company based out of Toronto, Canada. We are a global company, with offices in Toronto, Canada and Darmstadt, Germany, from which we serve 30+ million customers in almost 190 countries. Furthermore, we currently offer 30+ co-op and internship opportunities in technology, business, publishing, and more. Our roles can be worked remotely or in a hybrid manner.
The focus of our organization is to be a company built by booklovers for booklovers. We believe people should be able to read anywhere in the world, on any device, and in any language. We offer our own e-reader devices, a collection of millions of eBooks and audiobooks, and offer a self-publishing platform for thousands of authors.
Community
Community is a multidisciplinary creative agency located in Toronto. Our clients range from small start-ups to international brands. Our solutions are strategically driven and creatively executed.
Kitworks Inc
Unboxing should feel like a party-and we're the ones bringing the confetti. At Kitworks, we believe every package should spark joy, create connection, and make brands unforgettable. Because when people feel something, they remember it. That's why we don't just make stuff, we make moments.
The kind that get unboxed with excitement, snapped for socials, and talked about long after the tape is peeled back. Whether it's an influencer drop that steals the spotlight, a media kit that makes waves, a branded experience that turns heads, or a VIP gift that actually feels VIP-we make brands impossible to ignore.
Red Nucleus
At Red Nucleus, our purpose is advancing knowledge to improve lives. We are the premier provider of medical communications solutions for the life sciences industry and provide our clients with unique insights and creative solutions that support them in their journey to improve the quality of patient's lives.
At Red Nucleus, we believe in providing a rich working environment that pushes us to innovate in ways that engages our employees to be their best selves. Our culture is about meaningful work, a true sense of community, and fun. We love to celebrate our people and we are proud to have been Internationally recognized as a "Great Place to Work".
DesignAgency
DesignAgency is an award-winning international design studio that draws on over two decades of expertise in interior design, architectural and landscape
With studios in Toronto, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Barcelona, DesignAgency has developed a global reputation for creating exceptional environments
Key to our success is the strength of collaboration. Our talented design teams are informed by curiosity, international perspectives, and a drive for innovation.