BÆBEL
<p>Single pages from IKEA furniture-assembly instructions were mixed together and renumbered. The result is an instructions manual of about 700 pages.</p> <p>“BÆBEL’s name suggests both staggering ambition—and if you followed its instructions, and assembled all IKEA furniture into a single fixture, what could that be but a tower to god?—and its promise of universal comprehension: IKEA’s power is predicated on communicating across languages, which is why its manuals eschew words entirely for these severe and elegant images.”</p> <p>– Julia Pelta Feldman</p>
Authors: Gregor Weichbrodt