From golden syrup to golden shoes, this week’s Design Line ponders how the language of design is being co-opted for political messages, as well as including stories about material tracing, manufactured outrage and un-radical retrofitting.

This week, Design Line includes a call for biodiversity in emojis, designs for healthy homes from Ikea and harmful products from Amazon. Also featured is a spat about app monopolies, a collection of possible futures from MU Hybrid Art House and some much needed festive cheer.

This week’s Design Line brings an assessment of Skateboard at the Design Museum; a conference at Aalvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium; the Design Council’s Design for Planet programme; and RIBA announced the winner of the 2023 Stirling Prize.

Tremaine Emory quits Supreme, Space 10 closes down, and iFixit takes on the always-broken McFlurry machine in this week’s Design Line.

Claude Dutson employs technology to snoop around the secretive headquarters of Silicon Valley, probing the methodological limits of proprietary architecture.

The Disegno team has arrived in Milan for the city’s annual design week, with highlights from the first day including installations from Google, Robert Stadler and ECAL.

Pepsi bids a sweet farewell to sugar with its rebrand, a Pantone-matched Ketchup-red tattoo ink from Heinz, and a fashionable AI hoax all feature on this week’s Design Line.

Fashion for dogs, a smart tech solutions to a solar power problem, and a failed rocket launch all feature in this week’s Design Line.

The passing of Marcus Fairs, a car design from Kanye West, and Google’s move to protect abortion-seekers’ data feature on Design Line.

The Crit is back with discussions about Salone del Mobile, the shocking findings of the Bartlett investigations, and the claimed sentience of Google’s LaMDA chat bot.

A new director for the AA, a campus for Google, accessible computer accessories, and a pavilion for Melbourne all feature on this week’s Design Line.

The Design Line is back, because chairs have been on television, NFTS have invaded a Fijian island, and doctors have genetically engineered a pig’s heart to make it fit for a man.