Furniture and homewares brand IKEA has topped Dezeen Hot List 2017 of the 500 people, brands and organisations our readers most wanted to read about this year. Retailer Muji takes second place while Peter Zumthor is the highest placed architect. More about Dezeen Hot List 2017: IKEA is the most newsworthy force in design, ahead of Muji and Peter Zumthor
IKEA's external innovation lab Space10 has created an online platform for researching and developing concepts for future shared living spaces. More about IKEA lab Space10 launches website to "revamp" co-living for 2030
Reclaimed wood chips and recycled plastic were both used to create this IKEA chair, designed by Swedish studio Form Us With Love. More about Form Us With Love uses recycled wood and plastic to create sustainable IKEA chair
IKEA's first furniture collection designed specifically for pets includes a treehouse-like cat hideaway, and a bowl that encourages dogs to eat slowly. More about IKEA launches first range of furniture for cats and dogs
IKEA's innovation lab Space10 presented a pop-up farm during this year's London Design Festival, growing tiny greens that were used to prepare 2,000 nutritional salads. More about IKEA lab Space10 creates pop-up hydroponic farm for growing extra-healthy salads
IKEA employees can "go bananas writing on every wall" inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. More about IKEA's Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling
IKEA's external innovation lab Space10 has worked in collaboration with three young architects to create a four-metre-high bioreactor dome for growing microalgae. More about IKEA lab Space10 creates algae-producing pavilion in Copenhagen
IKEA has shared instructions for turning its rugs into luxurious fur capes, following revelations that Game of Thrones costume designers used the brand's home accessories to dress their actors. More about IKEA instruction manual shows how to make your own Game of Thrones cape
IKEA is expanding its solar panel offering with a battery-storage solution, which it claims could help homeowners cut their electricity bills by 70 per cent. More about IKEA launches solar battery packs to rival Tesla's Powerwall
IKEA, Habitat and Heal's are among the brands named in PETA's first Vegan Homeware Awards, which recognise the best cruelty-free designs for the home. More about PETA awards IKEA, Habitat and Heal's for vegan design
IKEA and Hay have released a set of images that show the full range of furniture and homeware products from their collaboration. More about IKEA and Hay reveal full collaborative Ypperlig collection
What Design Can Do has teamed up with Autodesk Foundation and IKEA Foundation to launch the Climate Action Challenge, a competition inviting designers to come up with proposals responding to climate change. More about Climate Action Challenge asks designers for proposals to tackle climate change
Two of the most influential brands on the planet, Apple and IKEA have revealed that they are working together on a new AR-based shopping app that is slated to launch in autumn 2017. More about IKEA teams with Apple to create a "game-changing" AR-based shopping app
This new Pinterest board features creative repurposings of IKEA products, from cabinets used to create a live-work space to stools that make under-floor storage. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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The Space10 innovation lab has teamed with open-source manufacturing platform Opendesk to create workspace attachments for IKEA's Delaktig system by Tom Dixon. More about Space10 and Opendesk are among the first to "hack" Tom Dixon's modular bed for IKEA
Note Design and Afteroom are the latest studios to hack IKEA products for Danish brand Reform, with both taking cues from their Scandinavian origins to create minimal sideboards. More about Note Design and Afteroom hack IKEA kitchens to make living room furnishings for Reform
IKEA has announced it will work alongside fashion designer Virgil Abloh to produce a collection aimed at millennials moving into their first homes, which could also include his take on the brand's iconic blue Frakta bag. More about IKEA to collaborate with Virgil Abloh for millennial-focused furniture collection
IKEA is set to produce a collection of space-saving furniture that draws on the logistics of space travel to find innovative solutions for shrinking living spaces. More about IKEA looks to space travel for new micro-living furniture collection
Following on from the blue bag's recent viral moment, IKEA has released a short film celebrating the Frakta tote and its multitude of uses. More about IKEA releases film in ode to its beloved blue bag
IKEA's blue bag is the perfect pop-culture reference for a generation stuck in a rotation of rental flats, says Will Wiles in his latest Opinion column. More about "IKEA's Frakta has broken through into design consciousness"