Hawaiian Kitchen, Los Angeles, CA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Feb 17, 2011 1:13 AM Of course we know that The Islands' graphic designer was also working in the transmission tradition with his (I believe late) menu cover, this was its predecessor: Though the Asian statues are no direct copies, their style and the whole concept of the "artifacts hovering in the mist of time cloud" was definitely inspired by this Trader Vic's menu cover. The Milan Guanko Tiki is from the older Islands covers, and the one original Tiki rendering is a quite curious combination of a Maori panel on top and Melanesian or Asian statue on the bottom, a product of pure fantasy I believe. Considering that much of the design was borrowed, I wonder where the cool B&W renderings inside the Hawaiian Kitchen menu are originally from...

Of course we know that The Islands' graphic designer was also working in the transmission tradition with his (I believe late) menu cover, this was its predecessor:

Though the Asian statues are no direct copies, their style and the whole concept of the "artifacts hovering in the mist of time cloud" was definitely inspired by this Trader Vic's menu cover.

The Milan Guanko Tiki is from the older Islands covers, and the one original Tiki rendering is a quite curious combination of a Maori panel on top and Melanesian or Asian statue on the bottom, a product of pure fantasy I believe.

Considering that much of the design was borrowed, I wonder where the cool B&W renderings inside the Hawaiian Kitchen menu are originally from...

Post #576504 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Feb 17, 2011 1:13 AM