Christopher Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

A July study.

Christopher Travel is Mary and Rick Stephens' boutique cruise agency in Anchorage, Alaska – luxury sailings with a particular love for Alaska, the South Pacific and full world cruises. Their monogram is an antique key embraced by a calligraphic C, and their motto explains it in Latin: RECLUDIMUS MUNDUM. We unlock the world. A brand that keeps its promise in a dead language is our kind of brand.

The mark, as found

Christopher Travel monogram - an antique key embraced by a calligraphic C

Pressed

Navy blueberry for the dark water their gold was made to sit on, sicilian brown for the bronze end of that gold, and black – where an antique key belongs.

Christopher Travel leather luggage tags - blueberry, sicilian brown and gold on black

The world, unlocked

Then the second die, taking the motto at its word: a padlock whose body is the globe, their key already in it, mid-turn.

We-unlock-the-world design made for Christopher Travel - a globe padlock with its key mid-turn

Christopher Travel unlock leather luggage tags - blueberry, sicilian and gold on black

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 Christopher Travel and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.