One of the most-frequent questions I get about our house is how we like our IKEA cabinets. We’ve lived in our kitchen for more than a year, so I thought it was a good time to come back to this question in more detail. In short: I LOVE OUR IKEA KITCHEN. In fact, we love this...
Cross merchandising in home goods stores is used to create an immersive setting. Customers can walk into a product display and sit on, touch, and interact with different products that complete the room. An example of this is Ikea’s showroom. You can walk through and visualize different deco...
Swedish furniture giant IKEA is going one step further to stop using plastics altogether. The company is phasing out all single-use plastic products from its stores and restaurants, and is aiming for all its plastic products to be made using recycled material by 2020. “Simply work...
Cross merchandising in home goods stores is used to create an immersive setting. Customers can walk into a product display and sit on, touch, and interact with different products that complete the room. An example of this is Ikea’s showroom. You can walk through and visualize different deco...
How is chipboard recycled? Chipboard is not accepted in your local council's kerbside recycling bin, bag or box or residual bin.Chipboard can be recycled at your local Household Waste Recycling Centre. Is IKEA particle board toxic? There is no need to worry. Customers should always feel con...
While some may argue a logo is integral to a brand's identity, it's merely one piece of the puzzle – ask experts and they'll tell you it takes considered expertise to make a truly iconic brand. "We respond to experiences," says Ben Marshall, creative director at Landor Associates, "...
Plants are not a difficult thing to acquire, either. You can get them from supermarkets, from IKEA (currenly in 38 countries) or even just, I dunno, from plant shops. You might want to watch these exotic plants though. I met a peace corps worker in Honduras who told me that a collea...
IKEA While blue and yellow may not immediately make you think of furniture, these colors are symbolic of specific emotions. Yellow expresses happiness and joy, and blue stands for trust and stability. By using these two bold colors together, IKEA’s logo is unmistakable, and conveys their brand...
打个比方就好比每天晚上你的电脑或者手机要进入维护模式,进行磁盘碎片整理(memory 的转移和索引),安装固件更新漏洞补丁(增强免疫系统功能)之类的,喝醉昏睡过去大概就等价于强行拔掉电源——虽然两种情况电脑都黑屏了,但是第二天重启的时候立刻就会知道区别很大。而熬夜晚睡则相当于长期运行内存效率低下、没有补丁的“裸奔...
One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work as “slave labour”. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your ho...