Channel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Channel.

For the warm-up, we put the Channel logo on the luggage tags – golden tan for the yellow of the mark, warm gray for the wordmark. The black tag takes the logo in gold foil.

Channel logo pressed across black, golden tan, and warm gray leather luggage tags

Next, Channel's own words. The team says it creates its own currents, so we drew exactly that: five streamlines flowing together, and one that breaks away to cut its own path – CREATE YOUR OWN CURRENTS.

CREATE YOUR OWN CURRENTS black and white stamping die designed for Channel

In gold on the black fob, with a golden tan sibling beside it, it looks genuinely beautiful.

CREATE YOUR OWN CURRENTS stamped on black and golden tan leather keychains for Channel

The same current rides in the corner of the toiletry bags, golden tan over deep espresso.

CREATE YOUR OWN CURRENTS blind debossed on golden tan and deep espresso leather toiletry bags for Channel

Then the tagline. Channel's name is a waterway, so we drew it as a lake chart: two open waters joined by a narrow passage, and a small boat making the crossing – YOUR PARTNER IN FUNDING. The partner is the passage.

YOUR PARTNER IN FUNDING lake passage black and white stamping die designed for Channel

Pressed at a generous size on the journals – one black, one warm gray – it reads like a page torn from that chart.

YOUR PARTNER IN FUNDING lake passage blind debossed on black and warm gray leather journals for Channel

And finally, the catchall tray, where the passage gets the whole of the golden tan base.

YOUR PARTNER IN FUNDING lake passage blind debossed on a golden tan leather catchall tray for Channel

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.