Ikea Suite

I assembled an Ikea shoe cupboard for our foyer at home. It was a complicated exercise but nevertheless successful, thanks to the illustrated assembly instructions provided in this mass-produced flatpack product.


These drawn instructions are quite elegant. They communicate intricate information using simple images, for millions of people to understand: remove something from the images and the instructions don’t make sense, add something and they would be confusing; a reductive, economical visual language.


I am using image fragments from these minimal, elegant, how-to-assemble instructions in the "Ikea Suite". All of the “Ikea Suite” drawings are in graphite (with a little colour) on 50.0 cm x 65.0 cm polyester drafting film.