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Our 17th annual awards party celebrates the very best in design—and we throw a great party too!

The winners of our 17th annual celebration honouring the best designers in Western Canada.

Join us Thursday, September 12, to celebrate the winners—and our design community.

The deadline is extended to enter our 2024 Designers of the Year Awards: enter by April 15!

Have a question regarding our Designers of the Year awards? Chances are, we've been asked before. Check out our FAQ below and then get ready to enter!

Plus, new awards this year! DEADLINE EXTENDED to April 15, 2024.

WL Designers of the Year judge Dan Lam wants you to love colour as much as she does. With her bold and beautiful sculptures, it’s pretty easy to come on board.

The winners of our 16th annual celebration honouring the best designers in Western Canada.

You have until August 15 to lock in the early-bird rate for the design party of the year.

Enter the 2023 Designers of the Year competition by April 3, 2023.

The winners of our 15th annual celebration honouring the best designers in Western Canada.

Our 15th Annual WL Designers of the Year Awards Party takes place on Tuesday, September 13 - and you're invited.

Treana Peake of the Obakki Foundation is budgeting $20,000 weekly towards supporting Ukrainians.

Our 2021 winners share how being named Designer of the Year buoyed up their business.

Enter the 2022 Designers of the Year Awards!

From eggs to Louboutins, our Designers of the Year share the objects that spark a nod of admiration.

Our awards will stream on Facebook Live on Thursday, September 23.

Our Designers of the Year look back at the early clues that design was their destiny.

Add these designer-approved books to your own bookshelf this fall.

And the winners are...

The clock is ticking!

The awards were live on October 8, 2020, but it's not too late for you to watch these top designers Zoom in from their studios and home design projects.

Our annual celebration of Western Canada's best designers is online this year... and you're invited.

Tomorrow is the big day—snag a ticket while you still can.

And the winners are...

Get your tickets now to Western Canada's premier design celebration—happening September 19.

Take a sneak peek at the Willow and Stump-designed awards that our 2019 DOTY winners will receive this September.

Deadline for entries is April 1, 2019!

We brought the party. You brought the style.

Hundreds of entries, 20 judges and just nine winners. From a pair of unabashedly modernist architectural designers to a creative director bringing Vancouver’s bridal fashion scene to the international stage to landscape architects who create symphonies for their clients: here are the 2018 Western Living Designers of the Year.

Submit by April 13, 2018, for Western Living's 11th annual design competition.

Calgary's MoDA designs a trophy that celebrates both the designer and their support network.

We celebrated 10 years of Designers of the Year awards this past week (and we have a sneaking suspicion it was our best party yet). Here's a look at your photos from the big night!

Inside the studio with Steven Pollock, 2016 Furniture Designer of the Year—and maker of this year's sleek trophies.

To celebrate our 10th annual Designers of the Year awards, we chat with past winners about how far they've come since taking home the DOTY trophy—and what's next on the horizon.

The entries came pouring in from all across Western Canada for the 10th anniversary of our design competition. We're delighted to present the cream of the crop.

This year's DOTY winners share their unique perspectives on hoarding great wood, turning fabrics inside-out and crafting quilts out of clay.

Revisit the best of Alberta design.

Your snaps from our favourite night of the year.

Designer Sholto Scruton talks about the design process behind the ruler-inspired award.

Meet the DOTY class of 2016, as selected by our panel of internationally renowned judges.

Designer Kelly Deck steers this year's new category for Makers.

Celebrating the 2015 Designers of the Year Awards in style.

We chat with this year's winners—architects, fashion designers and furniture designers alike—about their dedication to the details.

Looking good, Vancouver.

Designer awards call for a designer award.

From modernist architects to a menswear designer, this year’s winners are at the forefront of the West’s ever-changing, always thrilling design scene.

Designers of the Year would not be possible without the support of our generous sponsors.

This year’s winners have battled against hundreds of other entries before dozens of judges to proudly lay claim to the title Designer of the Year.

Western Living celebrated its 6th annual Designers of the Year Awards on September 12 with 500 designers, architects, local celebrities, media and more at Vancouver's spectacular London Aviation Centre