16/10/2026
Design picks of the week 💡
Image 1: A flying saucer has landed in Helsinki. 🛸 For the first time in decades, a brand-new Futuro House has been built from Matti Suuronen’s 1968 designs, after a Facebook listing for abandoned moulds set the project in motion. Finnish brand MARIMEKKO fitted out the interior, splitting the single room into lounging, dining and kitchenette zones. It was on show at Helsinki Design Week as a proposal for future ways of living, and what happens to it next is still being discussed.
Image 2: Jaguar says it’s back. The new Type 01 is its electric four-door GT, the production version of the divisive Type 00 concept. It has a long bonnet, thin headlights, a low 1.4-metre height and no rear window, so drivers rely on cameras instead. Jaguar’s managing director says it was designed as a Jaguar first and an EV second, to stand apart from “homogenous” electric cars. It marks the start of the brand’s all-electric era.
Image 3: Mother Design has given Marks and Spencer Home and Lingerie packaging a quiet, typography-led makeover. Rather than copying other homeware brands, the studio looked to information design, using grids, hierarchy and structure to make thousands of products easier to navigate. It stripped back the sub-brands and competing claims, kept the MS London typeface in a unified three-weight system with wider tracking, and added MS London Geo, a new numeral set for key product details.
