Ontario Design System documents combobox first
October 16 and 20, 2026
Version 2.11.0 added combobox guidance—design only for now, without ready-made code. It also clarified navigation and notification documentation and adjusted the Back button’s internal spacing. The subsequent 2.11.1 fixed broken global styles: a reminder that small design-system patches deserve attention too.
Source: designsystem.ontario.caCricut Design Space updates its desktop version
October 19, 2026 · version 10.8
Cricut published a note about Design Space for Desktop 10.8. For digital graphics later cut or applied to a material, the working app’s version is part of the production chain. Read the release notes alongside your project and chosen device, especially before repeating saved work.
Source: help.cricut.comShapr3D explores organic surfaces
October 22, 2026 · Fill in beta
Shapr3D 26.190 introduced Fill, which creates smooth surfaces with controlled transitions to adjacent faces while retaining the parametric model’s editability. Boolean operations also became available in Sweep and Loft through a separate icon. It is a step from a set of primitives toward freer forms.
Source: support.shapr3d.comPurista 2.0: revisiting familiar geometry
October 22, 2026
Suitcase Type Foundry presented a complete reworking of Purista almost two decades after its first release. The family did more than add styles: its letters were redrawn with revised proportions and details while retaining their technical character. The author’s article shows the difference between strict geometry and optical balance.
Source: www.suitcasetype.comEXT 8000 appears in the Sandberg program
October 22, 2026
The Sandberg Instituut calendar lists a showing of EXT 8000 on October 22. Events at schools and independent educational venues offer entry points to practices that have not yet become familiar commercial formats. The program page provides the specific project and its context.
Source: sandberg.nlDutch Design Week opens in Eindhoven
Opened October 17, 2026 · program through October 25
DDW 2026 opened a nine-day program of design projects across Eindhoven. Instead of a single exhibition theme, the festival offers many scales of observation, from materials and typography to technology and social relationships. Several independent projects from the program follow in this issue.
Source: ddw.nlWays of Seeing invites visitors to compose a color scene
DDW October 17–25, 2026
The installation by NCS Colour, Other Degree, Rive Roshan, and Cooloo turns color from an object of observation into a material for action. Visitors are invited to move among color, light, and materials, rearrange elements, and find their own composition. The shift from choosing a ready-made palette to a physical experience of perception is the interesting part.
Source: ddw.nlDeconstruction of Type breaks letters into 24 elements
DDW October 17–25, 2026
Mare Knegt turned her letters into 24 three-dimensional geometric modules. They can form the entire lowercase alphabet and other typographic shapes. The project refers to Bauhaus and constructivism, but invites us to read typography primarily as a spatial system as well as a carrier of text.
Source: app-api.ddw.nlFrom Field to Refuge connects materials and sensory comfort
DDW October 17–25, 2026
The Vilnius Academy of Arts research center shows how biomaterials can contribute to a calm, neuroinclusive space. The starting point was conversations with researchers and practitioners about the shortage of purpose-designed sensory rooms. This is design research into environments, not a claimed medical effect.
Source: ddw.nlResidue explores how events shape collective behavior
DDW October 17–25, 2026
The sound and spatial installation draws on two waves of panic buying of salt in China: after Fukushima in 2011 and the release of treated water in 2023. Through this story, the project examines how nuclear events continue to live in public memory. Panic is the subject of the research, not a recommendation for behavior.
Source: ddw.nlAmong Strangers makes strangers co-authors
DDW October 17–25, 2026
In a hotel lobby, refugees, local residents, designers, and visitors bring stories, objects, and images. Social Label De KoekjesClub brings them together in a work that changes over the week. It has no single author or predetermined ending: its form emerges from participation.
Source: ddw.nlSlow & Small AI looks at smaller systems
DDW October 17–25, 2026
The exhibition at MU Hybrid Art House gathers research into local AI systems, interactive installations, and experimental search tools. Instead of racing toward ever larger models, the authors propose a bounded, understandable context and knowledge of a particular place. Small scale becomes a way to discuss a system’s structure and assumptions.
Source: app-api.ddw.nlDesign Week Lagos unfolds its program
October 18–25, 2026
Design Week Lagos offers a distinct view of the city’s contemporary design scene. Building an international calendar around more than familiar European capitals changes both our visual references and the questions we ask about objects and spaces. The event website presents its program and participants.
Source: designweeklagos.comFIT discusses the designer’s role alongside AI
Opened October 16, 2026 · through November 8
Architecting the Future of Creative Intelligence at FIT examines a shift from executing production details to formulating ideas and coordinating systems. The exhibition asks what designers can imagine and organize in collaboration with AI agents. This is a curatorial view of the profession’s future, open to discussion.
Source: events.fitnyc.eduThe Met shows drawings from Tiffany studios
Opened October 22, 2026 · through February 7, 2027
Designing the Gilded Age brings together nearly 120 works and shows the path from sketch to stained glass, lamp, or interior. The exhibits include preserved design drawings and related objects. The exhibition brings attention back to the studio’s collective work and what the finished object usually conceals.
Source: www.metmuseum.org