Universal Cafe. San Francisco
This is the most recent tinybuilding in my granddaughter's collection. She has, at 4 months, already dined there at least twice.
This is one of the rare situations where the graphics of the restaurant's business card do not do the restaurant justice. The design, service and food and wine at Universal Cafe are much more sophisticated than this ugly card. I mean, why the red and blue; and why that nasty distorted star?
So, I had a rather hard time convincing myself to make a structure from it. If the restaurant didn't have such a presence in the SFO family's lives, I would never have bothered. My response was to make a little visual joke: the shape of the tinybuilding is reminiscent of a church - the Universal church. hahaha.
But here it is. The Universal 'church' is about 1-1/2 inch tall.
c. 2007
1 comment:
that is so funny that you'd mention how off universal's identity is. i think that every time we walk in...it's almost as if they created the logo at some point in the late-eighties when they got their first copy of Word Perfect on their Apple IIc.
the actual space is so wonderful in person (i think south park fabricators did the interior) and they make my favorite brunch in the city. if only they didn't have that damned clumsy identity.
your bldg is perfect though as it attempts to capture back some of the sophistication that the restaurant has and the mark doesn't...
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