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July 17, 2009
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State of Design Festival
Melbourne, Australia
July 15-25, 2009
Design, Complexity and Change
Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 18-20, 2009
NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2009
The best of ICFF and more!445 images
MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2009
Core77's massive galleries of all the best exhibitions, events, and parties from Milan!657 images
PICTOPIA FESTIVAL 2009
Check out the world's first ever large-scale presentation and celebration of "reduced and abstract character design and art."100 images
HOME AND HOUSEWARES SHOW 2009
Our picks from the thousands of products at the McCormick Center in Chicago.106 images
TRANSVERSALE 2009
Transversale 2009 is a wide range of objects and installations by artists, designers, and craftsmen exploring the boundaries where art and design meet.71 images
NEW YORK CITY TOY FAIR 2009
Visitors took the isles to check out over 100,000 products, and Core77 was there to bring the hottest ones right to your desktop.59 images
IMM COLOGNE INTERNATIONAL FURNISHING SHOW
Check out extensive photos from both the The IMM Furniture Show and the Passagen224 images
NORTH AMERICAN INT'L AUTO SHOW '09
The 2009 North American International Auto Show focused on product, especially high efficiency and electric vehicles. 110 images
TOKYO DESIGN WEEK 2008
Check out 'Tokyo Designer's Week' anchored by the 100% Design show and 'Designtide Tokyo'195 images
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
Now in its sixth year, The London Design Festival offers an amazing array of design and celebration.213 images
BICYCLE
A 100-day Dutch event anchored by an exhibition at the Designhuis in Eindhoven.100 images
100 PERCENT DESIGN SHANGHAI
Designers Richard Hutten, Michael Young & Patrick Jouin join creative directors Tobias Wong & Aric Chen.61 images
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is trying to make inroads in Japan by advertising in one of that country's high-traffic areas: train interiors. The Kobe Portliner Monorail will serve as a rolling Ikea catalog until May 6th; click here to check out the pictures.
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Well, IKEA certainly needs all the help they can get in Japan. It's their second try now to get into the local market, and they're making all the same mistakes as the first time - a bit of marketing isn't going to cure the fundamental problems with their attempts to sell in Japan.
I'm no furniture marketing expert but it seems pretty obvious to me that IKEA is failing (again) in Japan because:
1. City dwelling Japanese have no room for bulky, unnecessary furniture
2. IKEA shops are huge and very distant from the city centers
3. Few Japanese own cars, especially cars large enough to carry anything from IKEA
4. Japanese refuse, point blank, to pay for delivery, which every Japanese shop builds into the price - IKEA refuses to drop their delivery fee
etc etc, I could go on but you get the picture.
awesome now bums can sleep in style!! :)