Wo Hing General Store
By Catherine Dimalla “Following on from our work for The Slanted Door, Charles Phan enlisted Manual to create an identity for his new restaurant, Wo Hing General Store, situated at the epicenter of the Mission district. The restaurant’s name pays homage to a small grocery store that Phan’s uncle and father owned in Vietnam after [...]
Mash Curry House
As you know, we are big fans of a little cultural fusion here at Piquant. I was instantly smitten by the work of James Eccleston for British curry house Mash located in Buenos Aires. Elements of the identity are a literal mash such as the custom decoupage like pattern of elephants, telephone booths, and religious [...]
Santa Cruz
Though it’s not the least bit sunny in my part of San Francisco, I’d like to honor Cino de Mayo with some new Latin flavor from Mexico’s lauded Anagrama. It’s not the first time, if you recall I featured Bermellon not long ago. Though no one quite holds the candle to the U.S. design scene, [...]
Fat Cow
“Fat Cow is a beef-specialty restaurant employing the Japanese way of picking, cooking and serving beef. Drawing inspiration largely from the Japanese aesthetic – Wabi Sabi with traits that include simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty and the appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes, wood is used primarily as the platform of this [...]
