This week we celebrated Earth Day
This week on Dezeen, we marked Earth Day by looking at ways architects and designers are addressing climate change. Airo isn t simply another electric car that doesn t pollute the air, said studio founder Thomas Heatherwick. Instead, using the latest HEPA-filter technology, it goes further by also vacuuming up pollutants from other cars as it drives along.
Coronavirus continued to impact the design world as plans to hold furniture fair Salone del Mobile were thrown into doubt following the resignation of the fair s president Claudio Luti.
Luti resigned amid fears that the planned event in September would have few exhibitors and attendees, saying his vision this year s event has failed .
London Design Museum has opened a fully-stocked supermarket featuring essential goods with packaging designed by a host of top emerging artists. Indeed, the entire space designated for the Supermarket project was curated by Designer Camille Walala, and is open for everyone to buy their essential goods from coffee and toilet paper to rice and washing up liquid through Sunday (April 25). Each product presented the artists involved with a blank canvas on which they could produce their own take on the labels, with stunning results. The supermarket also features a message declaring Creativity is Essential in neon lights, in a context of the continued the economic fallout on the UK arts sector from the coronavirus pandemic.
Creativity is Essential
From 1981-1987, a unique design moment was taking place. It was called the Memphis movement, spearheaded by Italian architect Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007). With a style inspired by Art Deco and Pop Art, it became well-known for using bright colours, geometric shapes and bold patterns. Defined by a sense of playfulness, Memphis’ clashing aesthetics and haphazard arrangements were totally new.
The group continue to influence designers today, including London-based Camille Walala. âI grew up in the 80s and my dad was an architect â he had colourful pieces of furniture in his house, and I was always drawn by them,â she explains. âEverything around me was very sleek and grey, so Iâm always attracted by colour and black and white stripes.â This week, she unveils a new project at London’s Design Museum.
Designer Camille Walala has turned the London Design Museum s shop into a pop-up supermarket selling artist-designed foods.
Opening to the public tomorrow, the shop at the Design Museum aims to help people nourish their creativity as the UK emerges out of a three-month coronavirus lockdown when supermarkets were one of the few places to remain open.
Above: the installation will be located in the Design Museum shop. Top image: it is called Supermarket The past year has been really challenging for artists who haven t been able to show work or collaborate as normal, Walala said. Supermarket is a great way to not only support the Design Museum but also shine a spotlight on the ten brilliant young artists who through this project have a new platform for their work.
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