How Well Do You Know Your Swedish Furniture and Death Metal Bands?

Gatesman + Dave - Ikea product name or Death Metal band name

A quick trip to get new meeting room furniture at a local Ikea store has turned into worldwide exposure for Pittsburgh ad agency Gatesman+Dave. Sam Panico, Senior Copywriter at the agency (and a big metal fan) joked with Associate Creative Director Jeff Barton, how Ikea’s product names resembled the name of death metal bands.

The joke developed into an online game they dubbed “Ikea or Death“, in which visitors must guess whether a word is an Ikea product name or a death metal band. Panico leaked the game to a few friends on social media sites and posted it to Reddit, where it attracted thousands of users in the first few hours.

The game released on Wednesday, October 9 has attracted more than 428,000 Likes in just 3 days. I sadly scored only 11/20, which according to the developers is average.

[read more at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

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