Філософський факультет ЛНУ імені Івана Франка × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Філософський факультет ЛНУ імені Івана Франка.

For the warm-up, we redrew the faculty crest in high resolution and pressed it on the luggage tags – the crowned lion keeps his crown and both ribbons still read exactly as they should, down to NOSCE TE IPSUM. The black tag carries it in gold.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

The verified crest of the Philosophy Faculty of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, redrawn for a leather stamping study.

Black, turquoise and fuchsia leather luggage tags stamped with the Philosophy Faculty of Lviv crest.

Next, the motto from the bottom ribbon, spoken in Ukrainian. ПІЗНАЙ СЕБЕ circles a small round mirror, and the mirror stays empty – blank leather, since knowing yourself is the one part a stamp must leave to you. We put it on the toiletry kits, the bag you carry to an actual mirror every morning.

A black-and-white ПІЗНАЙ СЕБЕ mirror stamp design for the Lviv philosophy faculty.

Two gray and dark espresso leather toiletry bags stamped ПІЗНАЙ СЕБЕ.

The same die went onto a keychain duo that borrows the shield's own two fields – magenta and pale sea-blue.

Fuchsia and turquoise leather keychains stamped with the ПІЗНАЙ СЕБЕ mirror design.

Then a fob for the keys themselves: a question mark whose dot is cut as a keyhole. It hangs on the ring as the one key that opens everything else. The black fob takes it in gold.

A black-and-white question-mark keyhole stamp design for the Lviv philosophy faculty.

Black and Arizona leather keychains stamped with a question-mark keyhole.

The crowned lion then stepped down from his blue field and set his forepaws on an open book, with ФІЛОСОФІЯ beneath. Keychains with the little lion look just awesome.

A black-and-white crowned lion, open book and ФІЛОСОФІЯ stamp design.

Blueberry and caramel leather keychains stamped with the crowned philosophy lion.

The journals took three dies of their own. The first belongs to Socrates, seated the way he sits on the faculty's homepage, above the most honest line ever offered to a blank book – Я ЗНАЮ ЩО НІЧОГО НЕ ЗНАЮ. Every empty page inside proves him right.

A black-and-white Socrates journal stamp reading Я ЗНАЮ ЩО НІЧОГО НЕ ЗНАЮ.

Gray Sand and black leather journals stamped with Socrates and Я ЗНАЮ ЩО НІЧОГО НЕ ЗНАЮ.

The second is a dialogue – two profiles face one another, and the white space between them turns out to be a question mark. ДІАЛОГ ІЗ СОБОЮ, a dialogue with yourself, which is what a journal is for.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

A black-and-white two-profile stamp reading ДІАЛОГ ІЗ СОБОЮ.

Blueberry and turquoise leather journals stamped ДІАЛОГ ІЗ СОБОЮ.

The third takes the faculty's strategy at its word about the change the city is owed: a pen nib whose ink line rises until it becomes the Lviv skyline. ДУМКА СТАЄ ДІЄЮ – thought becomes action.

A black-and-white pen-to-Lviv stamp reading ДУМКА СТАЄ ДІЄЮ.

Forest green and caramel leather journals stamped ДУМКА СТАЄ ДІЄЮ.

And finally, the catchall tray in golden tan – four paths, one for each discipline taught under this roof, meeting in one open centre. Everything in your pockets ends the day in the same place; so do the four of them.

A black-and-white four-paths stamp for philosophy, psychology, cultural studies and political science.

An Arizona leather catchall tray stamped with four academic paths meeting in an open centre.

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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