Time Travel Mart
io9 has a post up covering LA’s new Time Travel Mart. The real store with the fake items is the storefront for 826LA. 826 is a nonprofit that tutors kids in creative writing techniques with chapters in LA, NY, Seattle, and SanFran. To raise funds, 826 asks designers to do some pro-bono package design for everything from canned Mammoth Chunks to Particle Guns to Scurvy Begone. These fictional products–in actuality everything from bottled water to solar blankets–are sold in 826’s Time Travel Mart, Space Travel Supply, Superhero Supply, or Pirate Supply stores. Check out the links and some of the awesome products the designers have dreamed up (you can order most of them online as well).
