The fonds documents Andrew Tomcik's career as a professor, graphics designer and consultant. It includes correspondence, writings, design examples, design work and posters created by Tomcik for corporate clients and York University, such as silkscreen and lithographic pieces. Also included are prints, notes, clippings, conference material, student projects, slides, teaching files for his history of design course, design books and magazines.

Collection consists of examples of Canadian commercial and industrial design, previously part of the permanent collection of the Design Exchange, a cultural design centre based in downtown Toronto. These objects form the core of "The xDX Project: Documenting, Linking, and Interpreting Canada's Design Heritage" a research project that was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2023 to reconstitute the Design Exchange's design museum through a digital repository and linked open data.