Welcome to the Tiki Central 2.0 Beta. Read the announcement
Celebrating classic and modern Polynesian Pop

Tiki Central / General Tiki / The Big Mouth-San Diego Tikis-1967

Post #695552 by tomsartproject on Sun, Oct 6, 2013 1:26 PM

You are viewing a single post. Click here to view the post in context.

Well I had the opportunity to ask Glen Guyett about the origin of the Kon Tiki Hotel sign's mask graphics. His reply was that all the artists of the time had a "vault" that they pulled art/ideas from. So his answer, although a bit unclear, was that the graphics were pre-existing. Mr. Guyett is a great artist, and I am positive he could've designed them, but it seems the mystery continues...