Illustrator Sanna Mander says private-label products flatten packaging design
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- Illustrator Sanna Mander describes a supermarket as an art gallery.
- She examines the design of everyday product packaging in the stores where Finns shop regularly.
Illustrator Sanna Mander says a supermarket can function like an art gallery. In the feature, she guides visitors through an exhibition of everyday product packaging, assessing both its attractive and troubling design choices.
The setting is the Prisma supermarket in Tripla, where Mander stands with a shopping cart outside the store. The ordinary grocery market becomes the exhibition space, reflecting the products and packages that Finns encounter while doing their daily shopping.
A supermarket is like an art gallery.
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Originally published by Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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