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A trio of restaurants with very different feels this week, with work from Auckland, Seoul, and Mérida. Oji by Seachange Oji, which translates to Uncle in Japanese, is a sushi bar from renowned chef Yukio Ozeki with two locations in Commercial Bay, a new retail, hospitality, and commercial district in Auckland, New Zealand. The identity, designed by local firm Seachange, introduces a slice of sushi, in non-sushi colors and with eyes in its center as its main visual. Who? Why? What? These are all valid questions that I wish had an answer to but at the same time I find the visual extremely appealing in its awkwardness as a representative of food, especially with its dubious eyes, like, it’s a piece of sushi that don’t trust the world. Part of what makes the piece of sushi palatabl