From the makers of the OCD cook book with all those orderly confections, here’s a bunch of crisp new videos on the Art of Cooking directed by Carl Small. Check ‘em out for hot minimalist cooking action! Read more »
If IKEA’s Homemade is Best cookbook’s perfectly organized, neat neat neat pastry ingredients made you happy, see what they look like baked. Ohhh.
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If you love baked goodies and things organized neatly, you’ll salivate over IKEA’s fresh cookbook Hembakat är Bäst (Homemade Is Best) with photography by Carl Kleiner. See pastries and tarts deconstructed into art-directed march of almonds and red currants, geometrically fractured logs of butter, neat flour pyramids and sugar trenches… ooh.
BANKSY Releases New Canned Catchphrases
The latest suspected spraypainting by street art millionaire BANKSY has popped up in Croydon, south of London. Stressing the challenge of turning IKEA’s flat-packed furnishings into anything functional, the new stenciled painting features a young punk puzzling over assembly instructions for one “Large Graffiti Slogan.”
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Font Nazis Unleash Their Moronic Wrath Upon Ikea
A disclaimer: I’ve never really understood, despite my best efforts to wrap my brain around it, how some people are so passionate about typography. So it goes without saying that some font-obsessed folks calling for the public execution of certain Ikea executives after they decided to make the transition from Futura to Verdana is something I find, um, mildly perplexing. Read more »
Artists Design DIY Guillotine
“Are you increasingly annoyed by all those criminals, immigrants and petty people who should just be got rid of?” Earlier this month, social carpentry shop Designer Contestatori debuted their new cutting edge work, a “low-cost product designed specifically for all those citizens who are so interested in Do-It-Yourself Justice.” Taking aim at recently enacted illegal immigration laws which make permit more vigilantism, the Sokkomb guillotine was unveiled outside an Italian IKEA, where it shares similarities to the Swedish furniture inside: somewhat easily assembled and relatively cheap at $140. After the jump, a video of the spruce decapitator, allegedly “tested for over 100 performances a day.” Read more »
Weeks after even the Post stopped wasting words whining about the temporary furniture and plastic bollards in car-free Times Square, the Times mounted their own attack. Susan Dominus critiques the pedestrian space, a work in progress, saying it has “a rough, slipshod feel” and “looks a little unworthy of New York.” It’s the same analysis that could be made of Atlantic Yards, the World Trade Center, as well as every partially-finished construction project in the city. And she has a solution: Read more »
In the Washington area, the Swedish furnishings retailer has pathetically and unashamedly attached itself to president-elect Barack Obama’s historic ass like a starving lamprey. These D.C. transit posters direct you to the website embracechange09.com. There, two animated men walk into an empty Oval Office and remove a last white sofa. The site’s clock is counting down to four days before the inauguration when, apparently, Ikea’s “Oval Office planner” will be up and running.. My prediction: you will be able to decorate the office with your choice of a limited selection of Ikea kräp…which is a pretty audacious scheme since none of the un-American rickety stuff would last four fucking years. When it comes to exploiting political events Ikea, take a lesson from ebay.
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With the Brooklyn IKEA store making itself more of a resource to residents—free ferry rides, shuttle buses, an esplanade—rather than just a commercial obstacle, the newly opened store in Red Hook is winning some of the hearts and minds of its Brooklyn neighbors. And now the build it yourself furniture seller is looking to spread some more of that joy to the rest of the world. The company reportedly plans on investing $77 million in green technologies, eventually leading to the development of “solar panels, efficiency meters, and energy efficient lighting.” This could be good news for the environment and eco-shoppers alike, given IKEA’s reach according to Inhabitat:
Despite claiming to be cool with non-shopping New Yorkers using their free bus shuttle service, IKEA has begun “quietly hand stamping customers to ensure they get first crack at the free boat rides.” This of course has got some Red Hook residents pissed, many arguing that IKEA made a deal with the city to accommodate non-customers too. |NYP|
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