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No connecting thread at all this week, with work from Ho Chi Minh City, Transylvania, and Sydney. Bakes Flagship by The Lab Saigon Bakes is a French patisserie and bakery with three locations in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, that has been creating delightful pastries since 2015. For the opening of a new flagship store in the Thao Dien neighborhood, local firm The Lab Saigon, created a new packaging system as well as (not pictured but definitely worth perusing at the link) the signage and interior design, down to the plants selection. It’s the packaging in particular that caught my attention, with its unique gradient treatments, applied in different ways. First there is the use in defining the contours of some illustrations placed on top of a grid of rounded-corner rectangles, which crea