Friday Likes 370
Black and white permeate all three projects this week, with work from Porto, St. Petersburg, and Oslo. NOLA Kitchen by Carla Almeida and Bernardo Braga NOLA Kitchen — where “NOLA” stands for “No Labels” — is a restaurant in Porto, Portugal, serving healthy dishes using only natural foods and ingredients. The identity, designed in collaboration by Portuguese designers Carla Almeida (based in Hong Kong) and Bernardo Braga (based in Porto), reflects the ingredient simplicity of the restaurant through a strict use of a single weight of Acumin used in a fairly basic treatment — flush left, uppercase, with horizontal rules. In principle this isn’t “fun” but the commitment to the typographic style across every touchpoint, from cups to signage to menus to