Friday Likes 500

Before getting into it, a pat on the back to ourselves and to the designers behind the 1,500 projects that we’ve featured since 2012 after 500 editions of Friday Likes. 🎉. This week, we have another trio of food establishments with Italian and French culinary influences tying them all together, with work from Athens, Austin, and Bordeaux. Baldo by Soul Baldo is a small, quick service restaurant in Athens, Greece, offering fresh pasta dishes in what they describe as the “coolest, freshest, Italianest pasta place” in the city. The identity, designed by local firm Soul, introduces a charming yet somewhat expressionless tomato — is it happy? sad? content? smug? — as the primary element paired with a single typeface, NB Grotesk Pro Mono, and a super simple color palette of red, green, an