Three luggage-tag studies for DreamCatchers Foundation
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world organizations.
An August study.
Meeting halfway, making time, and turning a wish into something real
DreamCatchers Foundation develops young people as compassionate leaders by creating intergenerational connections and fulfilling end-of-life wishes for people in hospice care. Founder and president Caitlin Crommett began the work through hospice volunteering as a teenager. The current organization works with student chapters, volunteers, hospices, agency partners, donors, and corporate sponsors.
The public identity uses lavender, periwinkle, deep navy, white, large serif headings, a loose handwritten accent for “Dreams,” and photographs of younger and older people sharing an experience. Its logo includes a culturally rooted dreamcatcher symbol, so these independent studies deliberately do not reproduce, simplify, remix, or decorate with that mark, feathers, webs, or related sacred imagery. They also avoid hospice beds, halos, clocks, savior narratives, and sentimental depictions of frailty. The surrounding mission structure becomes two footsteps approaching a bridge, two equal chairs sharing one table, and a written wish transformed into the ribbon around a finished parcel.
As leather luggage tags, the studies could be considered for approved student chapter leaders, agency partners, board or staff retreats, sponsor thank-yous, volunteer recognition, and a specific travel-related Dream team. The visual emphasis remains on relationship and shared action: both sides move toward the middle, both chairs have equal weight, and the gift is something made real rather than an abstract promise.
Leather and treatment
Soft lavender, deep navy, and natural tan leather follow the public warmth while leaving the sacred logo untouched. Tonal impressions keep the scenes intimate. A restrained antique-brass line on tan offers one commemorative treatment suitable for a partner or completed Dream without turning the object into official merchandise.
The three concepts
1. Meeting Halfway
A small arched footbridge receives one footprint from each end, both aimed toward the still-open center. It reads first as a crossing and then as DreamCatchers’ central idea: generations taking equal steps toward one another.
2. Two Chairs, One Table
Two matched chairs face a small table holding one open card; a cane rests quietly on one chair. The first read is a visit ready to begin, while the second places two generations around the same shared space without making either person the hero.
3. The Ribbon Loop
A plain parcel is tied with one generous continuous-loop bow. Its flowing line borrows the energy of the handwritten “Dreams” accent, turning a wish written down into an object prepared for delivery.
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.
If you’re DreamCatchers Foundation and you’d like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.