Akin × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world logos.

An August study.

For Akin.

First, for the warm-up, we pressed the akin wordmark just as it is, lengthwise along the luggage tags – deep green and pale greige from their own palette, with a third tag in golden tan for the pale yellow their pages carry.

The official lowercase Akin wordmark

The Akin wordmark blind debossed on forest green gray sand and arizona leather luggage tags

Next, the name. Akin means kin – what everyone on the road to parenthood shares, alongside what stays uniquely their own. So we drew a wreath of six sprigs, each from a different plant, tucked stem under leaf into a single ring, with AKIN at the center.

Black and white Akin kinship wreath stamping die artwork

The toiletry bags carry it in warm gray over deep espresso. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

The Akin kinship wreath blind debossed on country gray and dark espresso leather toiletry bags

Keychains in deep green and pale greige.

The Akin kinship wreath blind debossed on forest green and gray sand leather keychains

Then the catchall tray in golden tan, the wreath at generous size – a ring made to hold things, pressed on a tray that does the same.

The Akin kinship wreath blind debossed on an arizona leather catchall tray

And finally, the moons. Akin holds the whole arc from getting pregnant through postpartum, so we set seven moons waxing to full above EVERY PHASE.

Black and white Every Phase moon sequence stamping die artwork

The journals come in black and pale greige – one for the questions that arrive at 3 a.m., one for the morning that answers them.

Every Phase moon sequence blind debossed on black and gray sand leather journals

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're Akin and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.