Logo sought

You can't have it all, can you? Melbourne's biggest little bookstore has gone from strength to strength since we threw our legs open to you, the public, on May 18, 2008. Some businesses have "Est. 1808" et cetera above their door - it will be 2208 before we can lay claim to that sort of prestige and we may very well be dead at the time. We compensate by thieving archaic inscriptions from musty old books. You'll find them stuck to our walls all over the shop. This lends our cosy store a real sense of history, once you get past the sleek laptop and our post-modern, borderline avant-garde shelving arrangements. 

For a long time we've been mulling over the need for a logo. To take our store to the next level (world domination), we feel this aspect of the brand is necessary. We have a number of ideas:

• A red hand holding a quill
• A raven
• A dagger and a quill
• A flaxen-haired nymphmaniac snorting a line of cocaine from the hairy belly of Charles Bukowski, in sepia
• A raven in a tree
• A raven snorting a line of cocaine from the hairy belly of Charles Bukowski, in black and white
• A faux Penguin bookcover, circa 1960s, with Poets & Thieves as the title
• Just stealing Borders' logo and installing an information point in the store (if you've seen Black Books, starring Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey, you'll know what we mean)

The point is, we don't have a logo, and we'd like one. Here's where you or your more talented friend come in. Send us sketches, ideas. It could be anything so long as it fits, and we'll know when it fits. We can come to some sort of arrangement, be it books, money, alcohol, goodwill or even "favours" (you'll need to speak to Marius about that - he's on most weekends.)

We are, of course, as ever, serious about this logo business and don't wish to get our hopes up for nothing. All you welfare-loving, scruffy, substance-abusing Artists out there pondering your place in this corporation-controlled world and how you can best represent it on canvas using fish scales, aluminium foil and the knotted hair from a dead dog's scrotum need some direction. We're not going to ask you twice! 

A logo for Poets & Thieves! Let's do lunch. Your people could call our people. Hop to it, sweety, toot suite.