So my friend showed me this, and I thought I'd share it here. The man does some amazing photo-realistic manipulations, and here are some of my favorites. Also, here is the man's site: http://alltelleringet.com/
Wow. Those are fantastic! I love art like this and these definitely rule. That third one, I bet you could remake that using 3d street art
but... ive never done anything with photoshop and i could do that one. theres gotta be something we aren't noticing
Yeah, he either drew the car or vectored it in Illustrator. He also added a steering wheel and hub cap in the bottom of the picture and, and probably blurred the picture it create depth (most stocks don't have as much depth as this has).
I am pretty sure he added the car parts, and manipulated the booklet. Also, I added his site (alltelleringet.com) to the original post.
I don't think the Manip was supposed to show great skill, but more show a point through creativity. IKEA products are notorious for being hard to put together. It seems to me that he's saying that IKEA's products are as hard to assemble as assembling a car from scratch. I could be wrong, but other than that I don't see a reason for making that manip.