San Francisco artist believes new downtown food hall copied his design NBC Bay Area [Video]

A San Francisco artist says the art at the city’s new downtown food hall looks “like a carbon copy” of his own style and he doesn’t think it’s an accident.

As first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, Tim Lahan, who lives and has an art studio in San Francisco, said his phone was bombarded on Thursday with friends messaging him photos of the branding at San Francisco’s new Saluhall food hall.

The food hall, which opened this week, is run by Ingka Centres which operates the Ikea that shares the building on Market Street.

Saluhall is covered in branding which shows minimalistic outlines of eyes, ears, noses, and mouths.

“It looked almost exactly like something I would do or have done for the New Yorker for example, I did a whole series of these illustrations for them,” said Lahan of the art at Saluhall. Lahan said that no one from Saluhall had contacted him about this project or about his art.

He described …