Fink × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Fink.

For the warm-up, we put the fink wordmark on the luggage tags, lengthwise, the way the brush drew it. Two tags wear the colors of the vinyl editions – deep fern green and honeyed gorse russet – and the third is the black of the record itself.

The black tag carries the mark in gold, like gorse in bloom on a dark hedge.

Black, forest-green and Indian Summer leather luggage tags stamped with the official Fink wordmark.

First, we took the cover's quiet reversal – on the sleeve it is the land, and only the land, that does the erasing – and cut it as a stamp. A resting figure's outline fills with gorse until the field has nearly finished the job, and beneath it stands MEMORISE YOUR SENSES.

Black stamp artwork of a resting figure filled with gorse above the words MEMORISE YOUR SENSES.

A journal is where a memorised field goes before the city can overwrite it. One cover in deep fern green for the field, one in warm mid-gray for the town.

Forest-green and country-gray leather journals blind debossed with the MEMORISE YOUR SENSES design for Fink.

On the toiletry bags – a winter-gorse stack, honeyed russet over dark earth – the stamp sits small in the lower corner, pressed blind. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Indian Summer and dark espresso leather toiletry bags blind debossed with the MEMORISE YOUR SENSES design.

Next, TWO MAGPIES. Two birds on one bramble with buttercups underneath, for the softest song on the record.

Black stamp artwork of two magpies on bramble above the words TWO MAGPIES.

The keychains come as a pair in the magpie's own plumage – one true black, one pale greige.

Black and gray-sand leather keychains blind debossed with the TWO MAGPIES design for Fink.

And on the golden tan tray, the birds keep watch over the small shiny things a pocket carries home from the road.

An Arizona leather catchall tray blind debossed with the TWO MAGPIES design.

Then, the line we kept coming back to: NO POINT DYING OF PATIENCE. We set it under a long Cornish horizon where a single streetlamp has just broken the skyline – the first light of the coming city, and every reason to get moving.

Black stamp artwork of a Cornish horizon and streetlamp above NO POINT DYING OF PATIENCE.

A second trio of luggage tags carries the line lengthwise – field-dark espresso and pale mist greige, with one golden tan tag for the blue-sky days.

Dark espresso, gray-sand and Arizona leather luggage tags stamped with NO POINT DYING OF PATIENCE.

And finally, the same line on a pair of keychains – warm road tan and pale sea-blue, the lane and the morning sea – so it gets read every time the keys leave the tray. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Caramel and turquoise leather keychains blind debossed with NO POINT DYING OF PATIENCE for Fink.

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 Fink and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.