Adventures of a Lifetime Travels × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Adventures of a Lifetime Travels is Suzanne Stemper’s agency in southeast South Dakota, and her site header makes the promise plainly: “Worldwide Experiences. Small Town Service.” Her father was a pilot. She says he gave her the love of flying, and the flying grew into a trade she has now worked for more than thirty years, with a tourism degree and IATA accreditation behind it. She is originally from Hawaii and has lived in Alaska twice, so the two destinations she names first among her specialties are places she has actually unpacked in.
Her device earns the study on its own. An unbordered blue oval, and across it a pale bird caught mid-flight, neck stretched long and the broad wing thrown high. We considered lifting the bird out of the oval and pressing it alone, then thought better of it; the pale body would thin to almost nothing on light leather, and the field turns out to be doing quiet work holding the bird aloft. So oval and bird went into the stamp together, the way she flies them. The source art is compact, and we watched the small trailing wing at full stamp resolution before committing; it held.
The mark, as found
Pressed
Blueberry answers the deep blue of the oval field, and Turquoise leans toward the pale bird and the water light of her two home coasts. Black, as ever, carries the device in gold.
Hawaii to Alaska
For the companion we drew the route she has lived: a dotted flight line running the long way down the tag, with HAWAII at one end and ALASKA at the other. ADVENTURES OF A LIFETIME sits beneath the line in full. Lengthwise, since a route needs runway.
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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