“Anybody else get a kick out of pointing out IKEA products on TV shows? They show up on sit com sets all the time. My husband is quite impressed with my talent! I can’t think of a particular show at the moment… but I go to IKEA so often that I recognize and know the names of a lot of their stuff. I thought it would be fun to see if all you IKEA lovers could keep an eye out for IKEA products on the sets of TV shows, see where they show up, and post them here..”

YES!! I so do that!!! My husband is good at it too! IKEA stuff is on decorating shows, TV, and movies!!! I can’t help but notice everything. lol

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A recent interview I had with The New York Times’ Rob Walker is now posted in his personal blog, “Murketing“

“The Naming Business: Unraveling the IKEA product naming mystery”
A Hundred Monkeys

LINK

[via Apartment Therapy]

Photo: “Truth in advertising” by somenordic-based guy @ IKEA Lovers/FLICKR
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Psychedelic rug from IKEA. That place sure does have great, cheap, kiddy stuff!

“Charlotte at 11 months and 10 days old”
by Laura Howard @ IKEA Lovers/FLICKR
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“IKEA Sundsvall was the first IKEA store north of Stockholm in Sweden.
It opened forty years ago and people from all over the northern parts
of all of Europe (at least Norway, Sweden and Finland) have been buying
their IKEA stuff here. Before the building complex housed IKEA and a
small shopping mall. In April of this year IKEA opened a separate house
for their store, next to the old mall, and built in the standard blue
and yellow IKEA style. Coming autumn a new IKEA store will open in
Haparanda-Torneå, the border twin towns between Sweden and Finland.

IKEA is the most important and popular tourist attraction of Sundsvall.
And the IKEA parking lot is a very popular camp site (!) for people
with mobile homes and caravans! Holiday-makers stop here for a couple
of days’ of shopping, mostly people from further north who are on their
way home after vacation in the south (Sweden is a long country). “

By northofsweden
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[Thanks Jen!]

Melmikell @ IKEA Lovers/FLICKR

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“I am wondering if you or your readers have the answers to a couple of questions:

1.  Are shoppers still being approached in-store and asked not to take photos?  I see so many pictures tagged “ikea” on flickr.com, it just must be that cameras are now ubiquitous that IKEA has stopped approaching everyone.  I was always approached and warned in the past.

2.  Does IKEA offer any of its logo merchandise for sale?  I’m talking about hats/visors, pens, pencils, shirts*/tshirts, backpacks, beach towels or office supplies in general?  If not, I can’t figure out why they don’t want their logo plastered on everything that we can buy. *I don’t mean shirts similar to what workers wear.”

Karen Breen-Bondie
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We’ll ask IKEA about this – ABF

“My son peruses the Ikea catalog”
By Kirida @ IKEA Lovers/FLICKR

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IKEA Hacker has a FLICKR slideshow of the 2007 line.

Check it out

“fiona and ikea trains”
By Mathowie @ FLICKR

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