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Interesting IKEA BEKANT desks via AOC U3277PWQU 4K 32″ monitor.

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/21

via [WayBack] Trying out a new AOC U3277PWQU 4K 32″ monitor. (31.5″ to be exact). It definitively looks like a keeper :)I am actually using it at 100% font size atm… – Lars Fosdal – Google+

Interesting desks: IKEA BEKANT:

You can electrically adjust the desktop height seamlessly from a low sitting to a high standing position.

--jeroen

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CGSociety – Building 3D with Ikea: “Those natural-looking photographs in the IKEA catalogues are amazing. I can’t believe they’re mostly CG. It’s incredible.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/29

Wow. Just wow:

“Those natural-looking photographs in the IKEA catalogues are amazing. I can’t believe they’re mostly CG. It’s incredible.”

--jeroen

via CGSociety – Building 3D with Ikea.

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Why IKEA’s font switch from Futura to Verdana mattered (via: National Post)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/14

The point made by Simson Garfield below reminds me I haven’t been at IKEA for a long long while (:

Verdana was everywhere, and now it was in one more place. It was becoming a non-font that we don’t even register. Which is precisely why it was so effective, and exactly why it was chosen.

--jeroen

via: Why IKEA’s font switch from Futura to Verdana mattered | National Post.

PS: for people that also missed it and want to see the differences:

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IKEA into the Hotel Business (via: nu.nl – De Jager)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/07

Today, Gerrit de Jager again had a brilliant comic. This time on Marriott pairs with IKEA for its first budget hotels | Reuters.

Translates it says

IKEA gets into hotel business

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