Secrets behind the Tiki Crawl 9 website

Jun-1-10, 3:12 pm by Hanford
File under: fun, Tiki

For the last nine years, I've hosted a public event known as the San Francisco Tiki Bar Crawl. Last year I did a new logo for it. Here it is, shrunk down:

I haven't looked at the crawl's website in a while, but when checking it out a huge smile came to my face as I remembered the specifics of drawing it. Here's the lowdown on the city-in-silhouette at the top of the page.

The skyline is rendered from the perspective of someone (with fish-eyes) sitting across the Golden Gate Bridge, looking back on the land so that the East Bay is to our left with San Francisco in the middle, as the Peninsula stretches off to the camera's right.

Here's the left side.

We start off in the Oakland hills, home to two of our crawl stops: Conga Lounge and Kona Club. Emeryville's waterside Trader Vic's is represented an exaggerated A-frame silhouette even though the real building looks nothing like it.

I made sure that Alameda, which is an island off the edge of Oakland, got it's own spot on the map, since it's home to Forbidden Island. How many towers does the Bay Bridge have? I don't know, but I knew that anything more than two would scream "not the Golden Gate" to people who know the area.

Here's the second part: