ikea and trader joes are coming to memphis

double whammy of city living. merry christmas memphis! via via

in other news, two new walmarts are coming to murfreesboro

UPDATE:

details emerge

it's here!!!!!!11111

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important!

According to various reports, a very fashionably dressed monkey was found wandering around an Ikea in Toronto. Apparently, the monkey, who was wearing a shearling coat and a diaper, was brought to the store by his owners and left in the car while they went inside. But, as you might have guessed from his coat, this wasn't your regular, run-of-the-mill monkey, content to stay in the car while his owners had all the shopping fun. (via)

hmmmm

by now you all know about my picture problem. is Ikea's new dispoable digital the answer? also not the first disposable digital but probs is the first recyclable

ikea captions.

there's a bunch.

that is so nice. that is really nice.

if you work at ikea this bike is yours because they gave one to all of their employees.
story here.

with that amount of cats, it's....unpredictable.

100 cats released in an ikea in the UK.  yes!

(via) thx markie!!

the view from ikea.

 in brooklyn, last night.

NYT on ikea font change / mistake

They should have first taken everything out of the carton and made sure nothing was missing and that they weren’t mixing up, say, a Bjursta with a Leksvik or a Muddus. Then they should have taken a look to see how it all would fit together (serifs, strokes and counters), and only then should they have taken the many parts (stems, extenders, legs, spurs and chins) and started to jostle them into place, making sure they had enough help for heavy lifting when anything resembling pressed board was involved.

Instead they violated their aesthetic and their method: they went cheap (O.K., that’s part of Ikea’s appeal) but they also went pre-fab, ready-made. They even jettisoned their own distinctive, Swedish-owned design for something generic, multinational and bland. What good is designing furniture with coy names few outside your country can properly pronounce if you print a catalog describing those items using a font designed by Microsoft? (via)

ikea not a complete diaster

when it was announced that ikea would build it's first nyc store in brooklyn, experts and residents were concerned that an influx of automobile traffic would overwhelm the otherwise quiet red hook neighborhood. however, traffic studies conducted since the opening are showing that things are in fact better than most expected.

ikea took great care to implement alternative ways to get to the red hook location, including buses, water taxis, and shuttles. these measures seem to be working. the brooklyn eagle has a full report.

ikea car??

On April 1, IKEA will launch a new, car-shaped product in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund. (racked)