Tiki's on Trader Joe's Shopping Bags - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Mar 20, 2007 3:00 PM I'm back in L.A., and my local Trader Joe's gave me my first Tiki grocery bags today :) : Trader Joe's Burbank has had Tikis on their hand drawn price labels, and Danny Gallardo has carved extensively for T.J.s store in ...the South Bay (?), they are startin' to become more "Tiki" than Trader Vic's! :) A little Tiki revival history: Two of the Tikis on the bags, the Ku and the PMP mug, are taken from the House Industries TIKI TYPE font kit, which came out around 1999, and which majorly contributed to the re-introduction of the Tiki image into pop culture. The icons that accompanied their fonts have since appeared on countless products from greeting cards to MTV books. They were hand-drawn, based on owner Andy Cruz's mug and Coco Joe collections. I used a modfied version of their "Tiki Island" font on the cover of the BOT, and will use two of their other type faces on the Tiki Modern cover. The Cruz Brothers were early appreciators of Tiki: They are the rock stars of the hand drawn theme font revival, having toured Europe and Japan as speakers, and have published three magazines and a fine art book of their work. Their latest contribution to the graphic world is called "Burbank":

I'm back in L.A., and my local Trader Joe's gave me my first Tiki grocery bags today :) :

Trader Joe's Burbank has had Tikis on their hand drawn price labels, and Danny Gallardo has carved extensively for T.J.s store in ...the South Bay (?), they are startin' to become more "Tiki" than Trader Vic's! :)

A little Tiki revival history:

Two of the Tikis on the bags, the Ku and the PMP mug, are taken from the House Industries TIKI TYPE font kit, which came out around 1999, and which majorly contributed to the re-introduction of the Tiki image into pop culture.

The icons that accompanied their fonts have since appeared on countless products from greeting cards to MTV books. They were hand-drawn, based on owner Andy Cruz's mug and Coco Joe collections.

I used a modfied version of their "Tiki Island" font on the cover of the BOT, and will use two of their other type faces on the Tiki Modern cover. The Cruz Brothers were early appreciators of Tiki:

They are the rock stars of the hand drawn theme font revival, having toured Europe and Japan as speakers, and have published three magazines and a fine art book of their work. Their latest contribution to the graphic world is called "Burbank":

Post #293353 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Mar 20, 2007 3:00 PM