What Design Can Do launches design challenge to create solutions for refugees
Dutch organisation What Design Can Do has launched an international competition to help find solutions for refugees facing a wide variety of challenges. More
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We've reached "peak home furnishings" says IKEA sustainability chief
Business news: IKEA is aiming to double its sales by 2020 despite demand for home furnishings reaching a peak, according the company's head of sustainability. More
IKEA's Copenhagen research lab investigates the future of the meatball
IKEA's future-living research lab Space10 has launched a visual exploration into what the next 20 years of food design might hold for the meatball, including artificially-grown animal flesh and crispy insect protein. More
IKEA launches Space10 innovation lab to explore the future of home design
Furniture giant IKEA has launched a research hub and exhibition space in Copenhagen to test product prototypes and ways of boosting consumers' wellbeing (+ slideshow). More
Piet Hein Eek begins long-term collaboration with IKEA
Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek is creating a collection of limited-edition furniture for IKEA, set to launch in 2017, as part of a wider collaboration with the Swedish company. More
Shredded IKEA catalogues used to stuff Charles Kaisin's Küss cushions
IKEA is inviting consumers in Belgium to recycle their old catalogues into stuffing for a geometrically patterned cushion designed by Charles Kaisin. More
CHA:COL creates a live-work space in LA using hacked IKEA products
American studio CHA:COL has incorporated modified IKEA products into a unit that serves as an office and apartment for two visual artists in Los Angeles. More
13 of Dezeen's favourite IKEA designs and hacks
This month, Swedish furniture giant IKEA launched its first collection with British designer Ilse Crawford in stores and saw its modular kitchens hacked by some of Denmark's best architects. We've collected together 13 of our favourite Ikea designs and hacks from Dezeen's archive – from furniture for space-poor hipsters to a bar made from storage boxes. More
IKEA kitchens hacked by Danish architects including BIG
Danish architecture studios BIG, Henning Larsen and Norm have hacked IKEA flat-pack kitchens for Danish company Reform (+ slideshow). More
All-in-one digital table for IKEA suggests recipes based on leftover ingredients
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: a team of students have created a concept kitchen table for IKEA, which acts as an integrated cooking hob and dining table and can suggest recipes based on ingredients you put on it (+ movie). More
IKEA Temporary presents kitchen concepts at Milan pop-up
Milan 2015: IKEA has collaborated with designers to create kitchen installations focused on children, disabled people and the future of cooking at a pop-up space in Milan (+ slideshow). More
IKEA faces legal action over alleged copyright infringement
American furniture brand Emeco is to sue IKEA for damages for allegedly copying a chair designed by Norman Foster. More
IKEA's flat-pack refugee shelters go into production
IKEA is producing 10,000 of its flat-pack temporary shelters designed for refugees made homeless by conflict and natural disasters (+ slideshow). More
IKEA launches furniture that wirelessly charges smartphones and tablets
News: Swedish furniture giant IKEA has incorporated induction-charging stations into products from its latest collection, which will allow users to wirelessly charge their smartphones. More
"IKEA works in a very different way to everyone else" says head of design
Interview: IKEA's design manager Marcus Engman explains how a team of just 20 designers oversees the creation of 2,000 affordable products each year at the world's largest furniture company, in the second part of this exclusive interview. More
"I want to bring the surprise back to IKEA" says head of design
Interview: in this exclusive interview, IKEA's design manager Marcus Engman reveals how the Swedish furniture giant is using design to overhaul its reputation for "doing cheap stuff". More
IKEA launches "deliberately low key" collection by Ilse Crawford
Stockholm 2015: furniture giant IKEA has collaborated with London designer Ilse Crawford to launch a range of cork and natural-fibre homeware products. More
IKEA's refugee housing is "unusually sensitive and intelligent" says Alice Rawsthorn
News: IKEA's flat-pack refugee shelters, which have now been tested in Ethiopia and Iraq, have been described by design critic Alice Rawsthorn as being part of "one of the most important design developments of the past decade" (+ slideshow). More
Form Us With Love designs plastic seating range for IKEA
Stockholm studio Form Us With Love has created "the most affordable objects" in its repertoire: a pair of moulded plastic chairs for Swedish furniture brand IKEA. More
Dift utilises doomed Belgian school to create Eyes/Nights Only hotel
Interieur 2014: Belgian creative agency Dift has enlisted furniture brands including Artifort and IKEA to turn the rooms of a school set for demolition into temporary hotel suites during Biennale Interieur 2014 (+ slideshow). More