Rickert & Beagle Books

A good friend of mine back in Pittsburgh kind of...fell into being an awesome bookstore owner of an awesome bookstore. Even more awesome, she co-owns it with Peter S. Beagle, the author of the infamous Last Unicorn: 

And then, she thought *I* was cool enough to design the corporate identity for the new store name, Rickert & Beagle Books. 

So, here are some sketches: 

She loved the sketches and said I totally got her vibe -- she liked a) Victorian inspired stuff and b) vintage scifi stuff -- and that they were fantastic, and so the next step was to make some more complete versions digitally of her favorite designs: 

And then fiddling with the hand-drawn lettering:

Trying some embellishments and variations in typeweight:

And then, finally: 

look how official!

  

Down the line we are hoping for me to design some tshirts as well! Yay!