Friday Likes 571

Although not oil projects today are tied together by any particular trait, we got some stunners with work from New York, Verona, and Graz. Sooki by The Collected Works Sooki is a brand of premium Korean sesame oil made with sesame seeds that are “roasted at a lower temperature than most commercial oils — about ten degrees cooler — allowing the natural sweetness and nutty aroma to develop without bitterness”. The packaging, designed by New York, NY-based The Collected Works, is as delicately (yet also punchy-ly) layered as the sesame oil with a groovy wordmark, a vintage-esque depiction of Sooki — the founders’ mom whose nickname is Sooki — and a more contemporary comic book hero named Sooki Boy who has sesame oil bottles instead of arms. (You can learn more about him here.) The gener