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Some Italian, some Japanese, and some Indian to get your glands salivating this week with work from New York, Toronto, and Charleston. Speedy Romeo by Saint Urbain Speedy Romeo is a pizza joint in Brooklyn, NY, serving neo-neapolitan-style pizza from its locale that used to be an auto parts shop and named after one of the co-founder’s family-owned horse in the 1970s. The identity, designed by Saint Urbain, is a medley of “elements of auto racing and horse racing, infused with a 70s rock and roll influence”, which yields some bitchin’ design elements and a broad design language that is super entertaining. The main recurring element is a unicase wordmark that looks straight out of a 1970s magazine ad or race track signage — I could have done without the extensions on the “S” and “Y” bu