IKEA Designers DVD

IKEA Designers DVD
A new teaching DVD gives pupils a unique insight into how the Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA develops its designs from drawing board to shop floor.

Students taking design and manufacture courses can use the interactive DVD to learn how two members of IKEA’s design HQ developed a new product range. The DVD will be available to every school in the UK.

A team of co-workers from the IKEA’s Edinburgh store and a group of local teachers from Midlothian Council have worked together on the teaching tool after travelling to Sweden to film the IKEA DESIGNERS DVD.

The team interviewed designer Maria Vinka and product developer Liljana Kusibojoska to explain the process of design in relation to just a few of the 10,000 products the company designs and makes.

The DVD also examines the history and evolution of IKEA with an interactive walk-through the company’s museum in Almhult in Sweden. The museum houses roomsets of classic furniture products from the IKEA range over five decades, focusing on changing styles and tastes.

The DVD has been produced as a result of partnerships between Midlothian Council and local businesses – IKEA, ZOT Engineering, Alexander Pollock Ltd, Charles Laing and Sons and McLaren Plastics.

IKEA Edinburgh has worked closely with a number of local schools, especially Lasswade High School th