This week saw French designer Philippe Starck and American imaging company Kodak both venture into smartphone design.
Starck's Mi Mix for Chinese electronics company Xiaomi features a ceramic body and an edge-to-edge display that covers 91 per cent of the phone's front surface area.
This week, Kodak released its Ektra smartphone targeted at photographers
Meanwhile Kodak targeted photographers with the Kodak Ektra, a handset designed to mimic the capabilities of a DSLR camera.
Kodak also rebranded with retro-style logo
Kodak also ditched its typographic logo for a retro-style design this week, while New York's Museum of Modern Art added the original set of 176 emojis to its permanent collection.
Apple redesigned the MacBook Pro to include a touch-sensitive second screen In other tech news, Apple launched the first update to its MacBook Pro laptop since 2012, which includes a secondary display between the keyboard and screen.
MAD unveiled competing Lucas Museum designs for San Francisco and Los Angeles
In architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled its winning design for an archaeology centre in Saudi Arabia, and MAD revealed competing Lucas Museum designs for San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Peter Zumthor said he doesn't like the LACMA renderings
Peter Zumthor admitted that he doesn't like the visualisations for his new Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which proved controversial with Dezeen readers when published earlier this year.
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