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Ikea Heights

cashman — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:50:28 -0800

Ikea Heights is an online video series (secretly shot inside the Burbank Ikea Store). Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4. Via.

Design Within Reach?

geoff. — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:36:23 -0800

Beijing loves IKEA - but not for shopping. "Every weekend, thousands of looky-loos pour into the massive showroom to use the displays. Some hop into bed, slide under the covers and sneak a nap; others bring cameras and pose with the decor. Families while away the afternoon in the store for no other reason than to enjoy the air conditioning."

Ikea de-Futurafies

joeclark — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:26:20 -0800

Ikea de-Futurafies. You may have noticed something at once familiar and unfamiliar about the 2009 Ikea catalogue: The company switched from a custom variant of Futura to the font you stare at all day in your browser, Verdana. And type nerds are losing their shit! Verdana is now being used company-wide – even for double-page newspaper ads and illegal urban graffiti campaigns. “They want to be able to give the same visual impression both in print and the Web,” says a report.

Milkcrates are also okay

The Whelk — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:41:14 -0800

20 Brilliant Bookcases via ( mightygodking )

BÅB, The Ikea Baby

Pants! — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:01:23 -0800

BÅB, The Ikea Baby (pdf) [via mefi projects]

Life at Ikea, via Flickr

mrbula — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:49:38 -0800

Life at Ikea: Pretty much like life every where else.

Flat-Packed

chuckdarwin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:29:28 -0800

Affordability for first-time home buyers in the UK has fallen by 351% over the last 10 years. Never fear; through a deal with the Hyde housing association, Paramount Homes and Scandinavian partner Skanska, Ikea has introduced the BoKlok into the British housing market. These prefab homes will start at just £70,000 (including a voucher for some free furniture) and will probably be built on the fringes of London, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool. Previously

Don't skimp on the lingonberries

iviken — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:52:32 -0800

Living in a big box store: Comedian Mark Malkoff gave the world Li'l Gn'R, he took the Starbucks challenge, and today, he moves into IKEA in Paramus, N.J., for one week. (This is also news in Sweden.) Not a new idea, though.

Surprisingly, you can't buy the in-room robes

mkultra — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:18:11 -0800

Tired after wandering the aisles all day? Want to get a head start on all those shoppers the next morning? An IKEA near Oslo has opened a free, 30-bed in-store dorm. The company says it's also equipped with "a bridal suite, a luxury suite, as well as family and tourist rooms". A company spokesman claimed that "guests stayed awake to watch the night workers refill the shelves", then went on to point out that many of them also stayed awake through sunrise, unsure whether the sun would come up otherwise.

Flash based Ikea catalog

jonson — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:15:30 -0800

This flash demo for IKEA's kitchen stuff is kinda fun to play with. Takes a bit of time to load, when it does, click the mouse & hold down on the right or left halves of the photo, it's interesting. Note - the flash stuff contains audio, so careful with speaker volume

Some Guy's Blog, Plus Coke and Ikea

Gator — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:00:09 -0800

Minor Tweaks. No biggie, it's just some guy's little blog, with some hit-or-miss funny stuff and a few running features that are vaguely reminiscent of McSweeney's. The Ikea Dialogues and the Coke Dialogue are worth a chuckle. Note: Anna and Hank really do talk like that; I encourage you to go and harrass them (click "Ask Anna") yourselves. Start by asking if they're married, and take it from there.

A machine for living in

pieisexactlythree — Thu, 12 May 2005 21:42:59 -0800

BoKlok: Flat-packed boxes + alan wrench = home! With these relatively attractive six-plexes, Ikea seems to have made a reality of Le Corbusier's dream of mass-produced housing.

What kind of dining room set defines me as a person?

grabbingsand — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 07:34:39 -0800

(Project) Mayhem? The IKEA "nesting instinct" strikes London. I am Jack's Complete Lack of Surprise.

Ikea comes to Red Hook

Armitage Shanks — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:21:51 -0800

Red Hook is New York's perennial next-year neighborhood, perenially held back by huge housing projects and bad transportation, despite some ambitious proposals. Ikea's proposed store has been the subject of a long battle between "it'll bring jobs" and "it'll destroy the neighborhood". It's finally going to happen, and soon these buildings will be a parking lot.

Remember Design Takes Time

armage — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 05:55:29 -0800

Elite Designers Against IKEA

I'll have a double decaf half-caf on the rocks with a twist of lemon.

Vidiot — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:33:06 -0800

In Defense of Ikea and Starbucks. "[If] you're so desperate for your own soixante-huit moment that you can sit there with a straight face and tell me that you're being oppressed by flat-packable pine furniture with goofy pseudo-Scandinavian names, I'd advise you to spend a few days working with child slaves in the Sudan, or something." MeFite adamgreenfield pleads for "a little sense of scale."

You start this world armed only with a UNIVERSAL FURNITURE-ASSEMBLY ALLEN WRENCH

turbodog — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:15:10 -0800

Ikea Walkthrough: Now you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. A skeleton, probably the remains of a luckless consumer, lies here. Beside the skeleton is a rusty SKARPT high-quality steel knife with hard plastic handle and a shopping cart. Search the body. Take the IKEA GIFT CARD (still has $43 on it). Take and eat the SWEDISH FISH for sustenance. Now go: S, E, D, D, E, SW, W, SW, D, W, U, S

Wes Anderson

tomplus2 — Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:58:32 -0800

What has Wes Anderson been up to since The Royal Tenenbaums?

...a few unböring tv spots for IKEA's unböring ad campaign. There is a nice site about him which was updated March 18 announcing his fourth film starring, again, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Gwenyth Patltrow, Jason Swartzman and also Nicole Kidman and Robert Musgrave. Of course Mark Mothersbaugh has supposedly signed to do the score.

Tissue-san!

hulette — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:32:09 -0800

Tissue-san! In direct contrast to the recent IKEA ad campaigns, Japan seems to embrace the concept of product as person, with the same end result -- consumers buy more stuff at an accelerated rate. Both routes utilize the same tact though, using Anthropomorphism to grab the viewers attention. Is this the natural progression of things to come? (link via boing boing)

The short fuse of malice.

The Jesse Helms — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:37:30 -0800

Bombs found at Dutch IKEA stores. New terror against Ikea's child labour practices?

adrober — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:52:29 -0800

Spike Jonez's hilarious new IKEA ad (click the TV to watch it, you'll need Quicktime)... ...and here's the Slate.com article that led me to it.