Menu Collages

I was asked to put together a menu design for a restaurant in Mexico recently. Actually, it was the second time I'd designed their menu, the first time way back in 1990 or so -- back in the days when we used to hand-letter and draw with those awful refillable pens.

The restaurant's name is Madre Tierra, and its clientele mostly consists of weary tourists in search of "normal" comfort food, like brown rice, meltable cheese, and home baked bread. My idea was to make each page of the menu a graphic mix of the Mexican and the foreign — a Mother Earth collage.

The restaurant's owner decided that he only wanted Mexico to shine on Mother Earth, so these collages didn't get used. Still, I had fun doing them and thought they were interesting. You can see the finals over at Print and Publish.