Dreams Come True Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Dreams Come True Travel works out of Doylestown, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and states its record plainly: “Making Vacation Dreams Come True Since 2010.” Sixteen years on, the line still holds. Stacie Palma opened the agency as a luxury travel service with a single agent and grew it into what she calls her “Dream Team,” serving clients from Pennsylvania down to Alabama. She came prepared, with a degree in Hotel Restaurant Management and years in both leisure and corporate travel. She is also a Certified Autism Travel Professional, a credential that says a great deal about which dreams she considers worth the extra planning.
The logo earned this study on its own. At left, a turquoise suitcase with a top handle; tucked into its lower half, two blue wave bands and a yellow half-sun, so the case already holds the seaside it is bound for. Bold connected teal script spells the name, and a small gray line beneath reads “Making Your Dreams Come True One Vacation at a Time.” We press marks into luggage tags for a living. A suitcase with the vacation packed inside is about the plainest invitation our practice ever receives.
The mark, as found
Pressed lengthwise
Two leathers come straight off the mark, turquoise for the pale sea-blue of the case and its script, and indian-summer for the honeyed warmth of that half-sun. Black takes the same press under gold foil. We left the small gray line off the stamp itself; foil rewards a mark that breathes, and a full sentence of six-point type would only clog it.
The dream, packed
For the companion piece we drew the daydream stage of the trip, a thought bubble holding a packed suitcase, waves and sun riding its face, set above the words DREAMS COME TRUE. The tag runs portrait so the bubble gets room to float. We hesitated over that bubble, since a device this gentle can tip a stamp toward cartoon; in the end it stays, because it turns the suitcase into a wish somebody is still having.
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.
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