
Ikea ditches print brochures for a digital era
For 70 years, Ikea produced a printed brochure featuring the mega furniture store’s catalogue of products. Then, it went digital.

For 70 years, Ikea produced a printed brochure featuring the mega furniture store’s catalogue of products. Then, it went digital.

Flippy PDFs are not better than normal PDFs. They might actually be worse.

Did you know that Argos no longer prints a catalogue, and hasn’t done so since 2020? What puzzles me is how the prospectus has slipped under the radar and managed to remain largely unchanged for half a century.

Print is great - at the right time and right place. But at the beginning of the recruitment cycle, it's neither of those things.