design

There’s this thing called Independent Bookstore Day which I only know about because my day job is at an independent bookstore. Every year, there’s an official t-shirt design (spoilers: this isn’t it), and every year, our store owner offers to buy one for whomever would like. I haven’t liked any of the designs in the few years that I’ve been there, so this year, I designed myself a shirt to wear instead.

The joke is that the shirt presents independent bookstores as a D&D quest location, where players might send their characters to trade or ask the NPCs for information, because working as a bookseller is surprisingly like role-playing as an NPC. What I didn’t expect was that when I took my shirt to show my co-workers, they were impressed. And then people wanted to buy one, and then the store owner bought one for all my co-workers, and then I made $50 from a tongue-in-cheek project about working at a bookstore.

I feel like I might have accidentally scammed everyone.