CR Electric & Supply × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
An August study.
CR Electric & Supply is an electrical contractor in Dripping Springs, out in the Texas Hill Country. The operation is woman-owned and small in the best sense: a master electrician on the license, a ranch road for an address, and a stated mission of “excellent workmanship and complete customer satisfaction from start to completion of a project.” Their reviews read the way you hope an electrician's reviews will read – prompt arrivals and repairs that hold.
We liked them for a plain reason. A company that stakes its reputation on “service, safety, and quality, regardless of how large or small the project” is describing follow-through, and follow-through is the whole physics of a circuit. Power moves only when every connection is made. That idea carried the study.
The mark, as found
We looked hard for an official mark and came up empty. The company's web domain was dark when we checked, and the one directory that mentions a logo never let us see it properly. So we begin where the public record begins: the name, set straight, in plain type.
The mark this study proposes
Our proposal is a roundel built like a circuit. The ring holding the name is drawn as a wire, and at the bottom it breaks into two terminals bridged by a small closed knife switch – the loop is complete, the current can flow. Inside, the initials stand in sturdy slab capitals, with two lone stars keeping the whole thing anchored in Texas. What the initials stand for is the company's own story to tell; we pressed them exactly as they sign themselves.
Pressed
The proposed mark stands upright on a trio of luggage tags. Golden arizona tan carries the Hill Country sun, and deep espresso brown grounds the emblem the way an established trade outfit deserves. The black tag takes the one gold pass in the study, and the foil reads like polished brass fittings – the hardware register of the work itself.
The last connection of the day
The companion design leaves the emblem and goes out to where the work happens. Inside a thin wire ring, a line runs pole to pole across rolling hills and comes down to a small house at the edge of the frame, one window lit, one star high in the sky. Beneath it, DRIPPING SPRINGS TEXAS in small capitals. It is the end of a working day seen from the road: the power made it home.
On the keychains the scene presses into honeyed russet, the color of drawn copper, and into deep navy beside it. Both are blind deboss. A fob like this ends up on a truck key, which is exactly where we would want it.
The toiletry bags stack warm caramel over deep espresso, the classic luggage pairing, with the scene pressed small and blind in the lower right corner of each bag. A quiet maker's mark for the people who keep a small operation moving.
The catchall tray comes in golden arizona tan, and here the design takes its most generous size, centered on the base where keys and pocket brass land at the end of the day.
The journals pair deep forest green with caramel – live oak and limestone country, in leather – with the scene pressed generously in the lower right corner of each wrap cover. A field notebook for a trade that still writes things down.
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 CR Electric & Supply and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.