Three luggage-tag studies for BCEDC
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world organizations.
An August study.
A bridge crossed, a landscape kept, and a beam set true
Bucks County Economic Development Corporation is a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization established in 1958 to support economic growth in Bucks County. Its public resources connect businesses with financing, site selection, research, education, workforce development, international trade, and a broad network of economic-development partners. The current staff page identifies Kelly Doughty as Executive Director.
The live visual system is unmistakably civic without being ceremonial: deep navy and bright blue, a circular county seal, an aerial river-town landscape, planning documents, maps, and the direct invitation to “Build it in Bucks.” These independent studies do not reproduce the seal, its initials or lettering, the county outline, a map, or any public-agency insignia. Instead, a circular construction becomes a bridge and its reflection, a steady perimeter rhythm becomes a fence on a hill, and the site’s sturdy display type becomes a beam being placed on two columns.
As leather luggage tags, the ideas could be considered for approved board or partner appreciation, site visits, recognition dinners, conference groups, trade missions, lenders, brokers, or year-end thanks. Each picture is ordinary before it is organizational: parcels crossing a bridge, a fence following the land, and a crane finishing one stage of a build. Their second reading belongs to the county’s connected business landscape, but the objects remain quiet enough to travel.
Leather and treatment
Deep civic navy, bright cyan-blue, and natural tan leather carry the public palette into a restrained travel set. Tonal impressions keep the first two versions useful and discreet. Antique-brass foil on tan gives the third tag a small recognition note without imitating an official seal or award.
The three concepts
1. Full Circle Bridge
An arched bridge carries three small parcels over a river, while its reflection completes a broken circle below. It is first a plain scene of goods moving from one bank to another; the circular rhythm and river-town setting quietly return the organization’s civic construction.
2. Fence on the Hill
A split-rail fence marches evenly over one broad hill. The picture belongs immediately to a local landscape, while its repeated posts and curved ground borrow the cadence of lettering around a circular seal without copying a single official element.
3. Raising the Beam
A crane lowers one strong beam onto two waiting columns. The familiar construction moment makes “building” literal, and the beam’s sturdy flanged profile carries the weight and cadence of the organization’s public display type into a real object.
These are independent design studies for appropriate team, partner, collaborator, adviser, vendor, volunteer, or client occasions. No affiliation, approval, or endorsement is implied. Every image is a render used to test the object before cutting a physical die.
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.
If you’re Bucks County Economic Development Corporation and you’d like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.