Bentley Travel Design × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Bentley Travel Design is Drenda Roberts's studio in Edmond, Oklahoma, where she builds custom luxury trips with a concierge's patience and hands her clients back the hours the planning would have eaten. The name is a family inheritance. Drenda writes that her grandparents endured the loss of two sons two years apart, and that travel gave them back joy and fellowship when little else could; she says plainly that “the Bentley Travel Design name comes from my grandparents,” who instilled in her “a heart for family and adventure.” Her trips page carries a line we kept returning to while we worked: “my favorite and most meaningful trip is simply the next one.”
The crest earned the study on its own terms. A white serif B sits inside a wreath of two rising leaf sprays, and the wreath stays open at the lower center, as if the circle were still being drawn. Small pointed leaves and slim branches are exactly where a die proves whether it was cut with care, so we wanted to see how deep this one could go.
The mark, as found
Pressed
We pressed the crest into blueberry and gray sand, the deep navy her white mark lives on and the pale neutral field her site sets beside it. Black carries the gold foil.
Simply the next one
For the companion we drew a dashed travel loop with a small plane leaving through the gap, above the words SIMPLY THE NEXT ONE. We tried a closed loop first. It read as a finished itinerary, which misses her point entirely, so the gap stayed, and the plane got to keep going.
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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