From golden syrup to golden shoes, this week’s Design Line ponders how the language of design is being co-opted for political messages, as well as including stories about material tracing, manufactured outrage and un-radical retrofitting.

This week’s Design Line reports on a new tool from Arup that models Urban Heat Islands, the first period product tests to use actual blood, and England’s attempt to outlaw unisex public toilets.

MIT’s design for a wearable ultrasound, a Roblox-enabled app for The Met, and Walthamstow FC’s William Morris kit all feature in this week’s Design Line.

Helen Gonzalez Brown reviews the Apple Watch Ultra and grapples with anxiety, mortality, and the cult of wellness for Design Reviewed #1.

Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has developed a powder-to-liquid soap to cut down on plastic waste.

Photographer Alastair Philip Wiper documents the rigorous testing processes at Worlds Best Condom Factory in Denmark.

As UK restaurants are legally compelled to include calorie counts for their dishes, Georgina Bronte lays out the risks of redesigning menus.

From Disegno #25, Tamar Shafrir goes beyond the banal, circle-heavy interfaces of period-tracking apps to examine the profitable industry of harvesting fertility data.

As the NHS prepares to roll out the IUB Ballerine, Helen Brown explores the uncomfortable history of design for contraceptive intrauterine devices.