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A range of food-festive and strong-type projects this week, with work from Moscow, Mexico City, and Vancouver. AGON by Korotich AGON is a BBQ restaurant located inside the City Hall building of Yekaterinburg, Russia, and whose literal centerpiece is its smoker, placed in the middle of the restaurant. “AGON” in Russian, as Moscow-based Korotich explains, “means ‘fire’, and also briefly calls something ‘really cool'”. Which is two things that this identity is: fire and really cool. The identity has a familiar BBQ joint aesthetic with the flames and the industrial typography but it also has some really unexpected details like the flames emanating from the tail of an undisclosed bird and the industrial typography cast on blocks of concrete (which you k