This week, IKEA revealed collaborations with designers including Virgil Abloh and Teenage Engineering, while Kanye West was back in the headlines with various new creative projects.
IKEA previewed a number of upcoming collections this week as part of its annual Democratic Design Days conference. These included space-travel-inspired furniture developed with NASA, a rug that looks like a huge receipt by Virgil Abloh and a speaker and light system by Teenage Engineering.
Kanye West expected to begin Yeezy Home architecture venture with social-housing project
Also this week, visualisations were posted online that are believed to show Kanye West's first architecture project.
The 41-year-old rapper also unveiled Takashi Murakami-designed artwork for his new album Kids See Ghosts, while his Yeezy design brand moved into a brutalist-inspired studio in California. Eindhoven to build "world's first" 3D-printed houses that people will live inside
Elsewhere, in what is being described as a world first, Eindhoven University of Technology has announced plans to 3D print a series of concrete houses that will be made available to rent, expected to complete in 2019.
Another technological advancement was in the headlines, as researchers at US university Carnegie Mellon developed a new self-repairing electrically conductive material, which could open up the possibility for humanoid robots with sensor-laden skin.
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