IKEA Instructions by Mike Sacks

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IKEA is known for their unusual instruction booklets that come in just about every assembly-required item that you buy from the store.

If you’ve seen any of these instruction booklets before, you’ll know that IKEA tries it’s hardest to illustrate the process rather than explaining it in words. In fact, sometimes the instructions don’t have any words at all. This is done on purpose of course to emphasize just how easy (and cheap) it is to construct IKEA furniture (this probably saves on translation costs too).

Anyway, sometimes those instructions can be an utter failure at communicating just how you need to build something. This comic by Mike Sacks appeared in the June 2006 issue of Esquire magazine and illustrates the “deadly” problem that can arise because of these illustrated booklets. [via]