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.

Petulant politicians, quiet architects, a WALL-E lookalike and an architect changing social values one bra at a time – this weeks Design Line is full of all kinds of characters. Read on to meet them.

The Crit is back for a Milan Design Week special, where our hosts pick out a couple of events, installations and themes that caught their eye – both for better and worse

Day three of Disegno’s time in Milan takes in Knoll, Ikea, Droog, and a new material library

Pharrell Williams gets the nod from Louis Vuitton, Jony Ive’s new heraldry, and the 15-minute city moral panic all feature on Design Line this week.

Join us on a journey through this week’s Design Line, with stop offs at England’s plastic ban, Sabine Marcelis’s new collection for Ikea, NASA’s scheme to redesign the airplane wing, and much more.

Netflix enters the video gaming arena, IKEA raises its prices on flatpack furniture, and the death toll mounts for a desert megacity in this week’s Design Line.

Here comes the Design Line, featuring news from 3 Days of Design, the story of the scandal rocking The Bartlett, and the discovery of worms that eat plastic waste.