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My Ikea Collage The other day I found a huge stack of Ikea catalogues in the lobby of my apartment building. It sort of bugged me because “Like everyone else, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.”

So, in response to this I decided to pick up one of the catalogues and analyze what was being sold. To my surprise I found some particularly ironic, shocking and disturbing slogans printed in bold lettering in the catalogue. These include : “Power and Control”, “coordinated necessities”, “why thinking differently makes a big difference”, “Open to work, close to relax”, “affordable dreams (5X)”…

So I decided to make my own Ikea Catalogue from cutouts from this one catalogue I picked up. You can see it here…