IKEA HACKED
Exhibition design, graphic design, animations
Client: IKEA Museum (SE)
What happens when IKEA products are made into artworks or completely new design objects? Digital installations created for the exhibition ‘IKEA Hacked: Our Products. Your Ideas.’ at IKEA Museum invite visitors to explore and interact with artworks by international artists, architects and designers – all using IKEA products as materials in their work.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c5984bb4c2e64f036ca6c0606498f01adbcff8ef4f840e75c4efe5d413afba4/art_1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a3e4fba8863f356104b9c43bd5fe7a97be0884f2a126fb431612decfe73b7ed/Allen-key2.gif)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ba88d5785d4f051892c7affd8b76be98b6860d49125581dbcc1a3fe5acde98b/art_2.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ca4a742ee029e94aa25d2c9ba2856418f1545887b25e16e611c04cf65f2b9e7/art_3.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/174ed00cfbc5b57081fde94d3cc7383dfcc2969e36284aaffa07f58515730618/art_4.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fa78c2ed855157df5137fefc760386b51448459ed74b165712fdc57161f69a2/interaction_1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c2a6f808c454a5dd58d8f184bdcaa729b03f527005c7d41b249d1dbb60d14ce/merrygoround_3.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88eb2496f53acbbf1e160135103b38b526878dd96e5f0cd9df92eb6726116cc9/merrygoround_4.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a0a812ed2ba860cffafe676c404174b96395162491a77ac813a9499ccd3122f/plinth_1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/472d5e79dacfe0acffcacc58be0d84f8783f9e4fe0466950146db3656eb910fc/room_2_edit.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa9804818a4ccccbeeb10838f348264eaad2339b20474f21e0c3b235ce09b53e/ikea_hacked-booklet.png)
Credit: YOKE (Concept development, creative technology)
Developed as an Art Director at YOKE
Year: 2018
At several locations around the exhibition, visitors are greeted by interactive, colourful plinths that hold information about specific topics related to the “hacking”-phenomenon. By turning an Allen key - the tool of choice when assembling IKEA furniture - in the middle of the plinth, visitors activate different animations or texts on either a screen or a projection next to the plinth. The speed with which the visitor turns the Allen key controls the speed of the visual output which creates a physical interplay between the analogue and the digital experience.
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