BAB, the IKEA Baby

Aubrey Clayton made “BAB, The Ikea Baby” [PDF] for an expecting friend, which shows how to assemble a flat-pack baby with IKEAesque instructions. [via MeFi Projects]

1. [Kobie]

   And as far as I can tell, all the translations on page 2 are real. Good work!

2. [vamidus]

   Aubrey Clayton can expect to hear from IKEA’s legal department. I hear they are very touchy when it comes to their instruction manuals or anything that looks like one.

3. [spazzm]

   Look, the IKEA product names are not made up random strings: They are actual Swedish (sometimes Norwegian or Danish) words and places.

   So BAB is right out. May I suggest “Bäbis” (which means “baby”) instead?

4. [LX]

   @#4, even the Ikea Legal department can’t change international copyright law, which explicitly allows for persiflage.

   Great Work, Aubrey Clayton!

5. [Doomstalk]

   How is babby formed?

6. [HAL9000]

   What delivery methods does Ikea offer? Stork?

7. [tubgull]

   My baby is missing a critical part.

8. [Anonymous]

   Here’s a must see IKEA based instruction.
   http://kottke.org/06/12/ikea-dick-in-the-box