Three luggage-tag studies for Cochise Food Network
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world organizations.
An August study.
Three plain pictures of distance being closed
Cochise County Food Network connects food pantries, nonprofits, faith communities, healthcare providers, schools, local businesses, farms, gardens, ranchers, and neighbors across southeastern Arizona. Its public partner list spans communities from Benson and Bisbee to Douglas, Sierra Vista, Tombstone, and Willcox. Current reporting identifies Wendee Grinde as Coordinating Director and shows the Network organizing a countywide drive serving twenty pantries.
The current identity uses a circular landscape made from three broad yellow, coral, and turquoise bands, a small central link, and two leaves. These independent studies do not reproduce that emblem, the organization’s name or initials, an Arizona outline, a county seal, partner or funder logos, or the usual charity imagery of empty bowls, sad children, heroic rescuers, and hearts around food. The construction becomes three roads reaching one open pantry door, three shelves filled with ordinary staples, and two people passing one grocery box of fresh food.
As leather luggage tags, the ideas could be considered for approved partner convenings, pantry coordinators, food-drive hosts, volunteer leaders, funder or site visits, community-garden teams, and year-end recognition. A small, intentional cohort is the premise—not a claim that charitable resources should be diverted to luxury merchandise. The visual tone is practical dignity: many routes coordinated, shelves made useful, and one box moving from one pair of hands to another.
Leather and treatment
Desert turquoise, warm natural tan, and coral-rust leather echo the public palette without recreating its emblem. Tonal impressions keep the scenes direct and workmanlike. Restrained antique-brass on rust supplies one recognition treatment while the tooling stays identical.
The three concepts
1. Three Roads, One Door
Three broad country roads converge on the open door of a small building. Their stacked rhythm comes from the emblem’s three bands, now made literal as routes from distant communities toward one shared pantry.
2. Full Pantry Shelves
Three sturdy shelf tiers hold cans, jars, boxes, and one plain sack. The emblem’s layered rhythm becomes the concrete result of coordinated food drives: a pantry with useful food ready on every level.
3. The Grocery Handoff
Two equal pairs of hands meet beneath one grocery box containing bread and a young plant. The meeting curve and two leaves echo small ingredients from the emblem while the first read remains neighbors passing nourishment.
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.
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