Many of us are eager to return to enjoying art outside our homes, live and in-person now that the COVID clouds are starting to part. For the London Design Museum, the return to IRL art exhibitions is close but not soon enough, and they recently converted their store into a grocery market, giving art fans a taste of normalcy a little early while also commenting on all the design that surrounds us.
The SUPERMARKET installation, which offers legitimate pantry staples such as cans of beans, baked bread, fresh produce, and home goods, is a fun pop-art immersive shopping experience. SUPERMARKETâs unique, bright, and colorful visual style is the vision of designer Camille Walala with support from gin brand Bombay Sapphire. To design the labels and packaging for products, the selected emerging artists Amy Worrall, Charlotte Edey, Holly Warburton, Isadora Lima, Jess Warby, Joey Yu, Katherine Plumb, Kentaro Okawara, and Michaela Yearwood-Dan, with a specially designed Bombay Sapphire bottle by Ruff Mercy.
