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A three-course meal of restaurants with some exuberant designs, with work from New York, Athens, and Istanbul. Bacàn by Pentagram Bacàn is an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, NY, offering “Venetian light bites, daytime caffè, dinner and grand drinks”. The identity, designed by New York, NY-based Pentagram’s newest partner, Andrea Trabucco-Campos, takes a cue from the restaurant’s name that in Northern Italy that stands for, as explained at the project link, the “loud sound of a great dinner party”. It’s also a nod to Italian Futurism and in particular to Fortunato Depero’s black and white, geometric work as it expands that visual language through contemporary means by creating a variable, custom typeface with a geometric foundation that can go from bold to way