Storefront design, hand painted and gilded signs on fascia and glass for Chess Club Coffee, Chicago, using branding by designer Christopher Martin-Givens, 2025.
Door logo in 16k pale gold leaf mirror outlines with sign enamel centers in maroon, ivory and custom pink. Applied to second surface of glass.
A modified version of the client’s word mark was used on the fascia name
Original hand-lettering (a classic sign painter’s “Thick N Thin”) for the fascia callouts
More original lettering on the window valences—16k pale gold leaf mirror outlines with maroon enamel centers and an additional pale pinstripe enamel outline
One side of a full chess set was extrapolated from the client’s logo and hand painted in maroon enamel outlines, then gilded with 16k gold leaf in a two-tone finish
Rendering from the storefront design process