Channel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
An August study.
For Channel.
The ring of connected circles and the CHANNEL letters, pressed faithfully and run lengthwise along the tag. Golden tan is the yellow of the mark gone to leather, and warm gray answers the charcoal of the wordmark. On the black tag the whole logo goes down in gold – their yellow was already most of the way there.
The mark was a ring before it was a logo. On the fob it sits an inch from the steel ring that holds the keys – two rings, one job. On the black fob the ring is pressed in gold; on the golden tan it goes in blind.
The companion mark takes the company's name at its word. Every circle of the ring becomes a source letting down its own current; the currents find one another on the way down, and past the confluence a single channel carries everything – many partners, one source.
On the toiletry bags the confluence sits small in the lower corner, golden tan over deep espresso brown.
A golden tan catchall tray, the confluence pressed generous at its center. A day scatters things; the channel gives them one place to end up.
Their team page says the people here "create their own currents," and a journal is where a current starts. One in black, one in pale greige, the mark pressed deep into the lower corner of each.
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 Channel and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.