A Wave From It All Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
A Wave From It All Travel is the planning practice of Robin Demoy, its founder and principal, and the name made us smile before the logo did: a wave of the hand, and the old wish to get away from it all. Robin plans by relationship, learning what worked and what failed on a family's past vacations and carrying those lessons into the next booking, whether that is a cruise or a safari. The site greets you with “PERFECT MEMORIES START HERE.” and asks you to “Be a Traveler, Not a Tourist”. We picture the whole operation in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, up in the lakes, which suits a firm named for water.
The mark earns the study on its own. A thin teal line draws a low sun behind two rolling crests; beside them, brush script says a wave, with FROM IT ALL TRAVEL in small, patient capitals underneath. Thin script is the honest test of a stamping die, and the source we captured is wide but only 103 pixels tall, so we redrew the sun and the crests by hand before trusting anything to brass. Twice, actually; the first pass lost the spring in the script.
The mark, as found
Pressed lengthwise
Two leathers answered the palette: Turquoise, which is the wave's own medium teal, and Blueberry, whose deeper cast steadies the turquoise where it presses pale. Black carries the lockup in gold.
A wave back
The companion takes the pun at its word. A hand waves, and its motion lines curl over into three cresting waves above A WAVE FROM IT ALL in the same patient capitals. Goodbye and water in a single gesture, which is the whole business, really.
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.
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