El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company.

First, the warm-up. We pressed the masked outlaw on the luggage tags, in the leathers nearest the mark's own colors – pale sea-blue for the halo, pale warm greige for the parchment letters. The black tag carries the gold.

The official masked outlaw mark of El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company in black, parchment white and turquoise.

Three leather luggage tags stamped with the El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company outlaw logo.

Next, the getaway. "Clean getaway" is their own phrase, so we cut a passport exit stamp that fails at its one job – the dashed route slips between two highland agaves and breaks clean through the border, arrow out.

The black and white Clean Getaway stamp design for El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company, with a route escaping an oval border.

On the tags it runs lengthwise, in golden tan and pale sea-blue. The black tag carries the gold.

Golden tan, pale sea-blue and black leather luggage tags stamped with the Clean Getaway design for El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company.

Then the toiletry bags, black over deep espresso, the stamp kept low in the corner. On black the deboss reads as pure shadow – the right register for a getaway.

Black and deep espresso leather toiletry bags stamped with the Clean Getaway design for El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company.

Keychains in pale sea-blue and black. The black fob carries the gold.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Pale sea-blue and black leather keychains stamped with the Clean Getaway design for El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company.

A passport cover felt obligatory here – a spirit raised in the Jalisco highlands knows its way across a border. Pale sea-blue and black, blind deboss.

Pale sea-blue and black leather passport covers stamped with the Clean Getaway design for El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company.

The catchall tray in golden tan – where the keys land after a clean getaway.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with the Clean Getaway design for El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company.

Journals in deep espresso and pale greige, the stamp low on the cover.

Deep espresso and pale greige leather journals stamped with the Clean Getaway design for El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company.

And finally, the slow one. Blue Weber agave stands eight years in the highland ground before it earns the stone ovens, so we ringed the rosette with eight countable rings, one for each year.

The black and white Eight Years in the Ground agave stamp design for El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company.

We pressed it on journals in deep green and warm tan – eight years is fair patience for anything worth writing down.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Forest green and caramel leather journals stamped with the Eight Years in the Ground agave design for El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company.

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 El Bandido Yankee Tequila Company and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.