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A couple of visually overloaded projects book-end a simpler one this week, with work from Antwerp, Lisbon, and Stockholm. Black & Yellow by eltipo Black & Yellow is a coffee shop in Antwerp, Belgium, with as much attitude as caffeine. The identity, designed by local designer eltipo, is perhaps unsurprisingly served up in a palette of black and yellow and breaks away from the chic/rustic coffee shop trend with a more… metal graphic language that looks and feels so good. I love pretty-looking design but this over-the-top, take-it-or-leave-it, sign-of-the-horns-hand-sign aesthetic is such a welcome approach. The “B” doubling as a lightning bolt is great and the illustration of the dragon snake wrapping around the espresso machine’s portafilter is epic. \m/_ See