First Impressions – a leather collection of dinosaur tracks and deep time – Volume I-D
From the Practice Log.
A September study – Volume I-D.
First Impressions is a leather collection about traces – the marks that stay after their maker has moved on. A stamp pressed into leather works the way a footprint pressed into a soft lakeshore once did, so we designed five, from luggage tags to journals, each aimed at a particular pair of hands.
First, for the traveler. A trackway of three-toed footprints walks the full length of the tag, and beneath it the leather says EVERY JOURNEY LEAVES A TRACE. We pressed it into pale greige, like tracks in pale mud, and into honeyed russet, like the red sandstone that keeps the real ones. The black tag carries the design in gold.
It looks genuinely beautiful.
Next, an identity gift for the youngest scientists we know – one slender track above the words FUTURE PALEONTOLOGIST. A keychain is the right size for a promise, in golden tan or deep pine green.
Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
Then the toiletry bags. In the corner, a fossil brush mid-sweep has half uncovered a three-toed print, above the preparation lab's standing instruction: BRUSH DAILY. Advice that holds up in a washroom too – here in honeyed russet over dark espresso.
For the catchall tray we set LET THINGS SETTLE at the center of a lakebed – ripple rings widening outward, one small footprint at the rim. Keys and pocket finds sink to the bottom the way sediment always has.
And finally, the one we liked the most. In the corner of each journal sits a small specimen label reading SOMEDAY THIS WILL BE EVIDENCE, with a single print for proof and a blank rule waiting for its catalog number. Every field notebook is a fossil bed in waiting – in pale greige and in deep green.
Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.
We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this study is one of them, and we hope the feeling is mutual. Every image is a render – how we prototype before cutting a die.
If you'd like any of these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.
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