San Francisco Cityscape

A wacky and colorful San Francisco cityscape illustration to celebrate a city I’ve spent many weekends vending at and occasional meals and and hangouts with friends. This piece is inspired by commissioned work I created for SF New Deal for their Vacant to Vibrant program that’s revitalizing downtown San Francisco. Vacant to Vibrant supports small businesses, arts and cultural organizations to activate vacant storefronts with unique pop-up experiences. You can learn more about it at vibrantsf.org.

I’ve included as many landmarks, neighborhoods, iconic food items, and colorful buildings as I could to emulate those “I Spy” books I remember from childhood.

Some elements included in the San Francisco illustrated map:

• SF landmarks and icons: Ferry Building, Coit Tower, Salesforce Tower, Transamerica Building, Lombard Street, Ghirardelli Square, Chinatown Dragon Gate, Painted Ladies, Twin Peaks, Sutro Tower, Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, Chrissy Field, Palace of Fine Arts, Mile Rock Beach, Ocean Beach, SF Giants hat, sea lions, MUNI, cable cars

• Neighborhoods: Chinatown, North Beach, Russian Hill, the Marina, the Mission, Japantown, Inner Richmond, Inner Sunset, Outer Sunset, Lower Haight

• Food: Pizza, oysters, cioppino, egg tarts, donuts, noodles, sourdough bread, croissants, chocolate, cookies, Mission burritos, tacos, dim sum, pineapple bun with guava butter, Dutch crunch deli sandwich, tea leaf salad, ice cream, drip coffee, craft beers, garlic fries, crab, wine, fresh fruit and vegetables from the farmer’s market, sardine tin from a specialty deli.