Around the World Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Around the World Travel has arranged worldwide trips from Gorham, Maine since 2005, two decades of sending neighbors past the town line and out over the horizon. Group travel runs under Tricia's hand, and her specialty is Italy; Rome and Sicily get named on her pages the way a cook names the dishes she is genuinely proud of. Cruises and escorted tours fill out the rest of the book.
The name promises a circumnavigation and the mark keeps the promise. A sea-green globe sits under a thin, tilted orbit, and across the foreground runs a deep-blue banner lettered in white hand-drawn capitals. Lettering like that is a gift to a stamping die. Every wobble in those letters was put there by a person, and a press is faithful enough to keep each one.
The mark, as found
Pressed lengthwise
We ran the globe with its orbit, and the banner beneath, along the length of the tag. The original banner reads AROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL, LLC; we tried holding onto the suffix, and at tag width the letters shrank past legibility, so the stamp keeps AROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL while the incorporation stays on the paperwork. Blueberry follows the deep blue of the banner and its orbit line, while turquoise picks up the sea-green water of the globe. Black carries the gold foil.
The suitcase in orbit
The companion swaps a suitcase into the globe's old seat and lets it ride the orbit. One airplane follows, three dashes marking its wake. AROUND THE WORLD sits beneath in the same hand-lettered spirit, and the design runs portrait so the orbit has room to swing.
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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