We invited artist Camille Walala to fill a TUMI 19 Aluminum Suitcase with design-focused treasures that reflect her London-based home.

Our City in a Suitcase series takes a closer look at the art, design and architecture through the eyes of four international cities and creatives who live and work in them. Each will pack a TUMI 19 Degree suitcase full of items that they feel best represents their city?s culture. Take a look:

East London has always been full of a diverse mix of creative people. Often the first settling place for immigrants fleeing religious persecution or coming to seek their fortune on streets ‘paved with gold,’ it received influxes of French Huguenots in the 17th century, Ashkenazi Jews en route to America in the 19th century, and people from all over the world into the 20th and the 21st centuries, making it one of the most vibrant, multicultural and dynamic parts of London. One of its latest arrivals is French-born Camille Walala who is (literally) painting East London her own inimitable brand of colorful. Describing herself as a “purveyor of powerfully positive print,” she graduated in textile design from the University of Brighton and established her eponymous brand in 2009. Inspired by the Memphis Movement, the Ndebele tribe and Optical Art master Vasarely, she also says much of her work is driven by a simple desire to make people smile. Over the past 17 years she’s been putting smiles on faces e...