Three luggage-tag studies for EY Tax Technology teams
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world organizations.
An August study.
A door held open, one square shared, and a notebook ready
EY Tax Technology and Transformation describes work that brings together tax knowledge, operating models, data, technology, and managed services. Its public material speaks to connected functions, transformation, implementation, and the teams responsible for moving complex change into everyday operation.
The current EY system pairs a sharply rising yellow wedge with a compact white or black wordmark, dark charcoal-violet fields, modular content panels, generous white space, and a prominent spiral-staircase image on the service page. These independent studies do not reproduce the wedge-and-name lockup, letters, slogan, audit marks, or tax symbols. The wedge becomes a doorstop holding a door open, the modular field becomes a chocolate bar with one square shared, and the staircase’s coil becomes the binding of a work notebook.
As leather luggage tags, the ideas could be considered for approved project teams, implementation milestones, workshops, new joiners, offsites, client or alliance events, and year-end recognition. The designs stay human and useful: access held open, a small thing shared, and a place to capture the next decision.
Leather and treatment
Deep charcoal-violet, vivid yellow-ochre, and natural tan leather carry the visible contrast into a restrained travel family. Deep blind impressions keep the first two treatments professional; antique-brass on tan gives the third a modest recognition finish.
The three concepts
1. Held Open
An ordinary door swings open above a small wedge-shaped stop. The immediate message is access and welcome; the practical wedge transforms the most recognizable part of the current mark into something that enables passage rather than signs the object.
2. One Square Shared
A neat chocolate bar has one lower corner square snapped free and offered apart. It reads as a familiar act of sharing, while the repeated modules and one shifted unit translate the site’s panel system into a small human gesture.
3. Spiral Bound
A simple spiral notebook lies ready with a pencil across the page. The everyday work object comes first; the repeated binding coils borrow their upward rhythm from the spiral-staircase image on the current service page.
These are independent design studies for appropriate team, partner, collaborator, adviser, vendor, volunteer, donor, educator, 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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