Thank you Christophe for this informative link.
It's totally true. I had seen, a while ago, a report on the designers who work for them. In freelance (subcontractors) of course, it costs less and if you want to work for Ikea, we will have to adapt:
- Use of minimum quantity of materials
- Use of the cheapest materials (produced by small hands at the other end of the world?)
- manufacturing thought to be ultra-simple to achieve (solidity is far from being the priority)
- limitation of the creativity of designers to stay in the "trendy" style ie as "stripped" as possible (that's good it cuts costs and it's trendy).
In short ... It's not new ... Competitiveness at a cost:
Providing oneself at the lowest prices by working in the Third World implies incessant and disastrous road, sea transport and the environment, not to mention the human cost. De - en - of local employees, a maximum of subcontractor designators who are pushed to the extreme competition between them in order to lower their rates. Formatted products that self-destruct and need to be renewed often ...
Grrr ... I remember their latest pub that I find scandalous: remember ... A death on the top floor of a building, neighbors and help on the stairs ... then we discover that the death is nothing but a lamp (which seems to be too old) and is deposited ... on the sidewalk! It was necessary to change it for sure! This ideology of overconsumption they try to pass revolt me!
That's it ... I calm down ...
Finally, two little quotes I love Charb:
- "Sorting the waste, that's not what will prevent manufacturers from imposing useless crap on us which will end up in the trash"
- "Being a citizen is not knowing how to sort waste, it is avoiding buying it."
EDIT: uh ... my "waste" them, are for sale.