Flick Financial and Four Boys Branding × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Flick Financial and Four Boys Branding.

For the warm-up, we pressed the interlocking F monogram, faithful to the original, into a pair of toiletry bags – golden tan over deep espresso, the gold-on-dark the brand already wears.

Flick Financial interlocking F monogram in black and white

Flick Financial monogram blind debossed on golden tan and deep espresso leather toiletry bags

Next, we remembered the essay the firm published last December about building a wonderful life in a small river town. Every wonderful life has a bridge in it, so we drew one – three arches over the water and lamps burning on the span, with BEAVER FALLS above and A WONDERFUL LIFE below.

Beaver Falls A Wonderful Life bridge stamping die artwork

It runs lengthwise along the luggage tags, in golden tan and warm mid-gray, the ochre and the slate of the brand, with a black tag alongside. The black tag carries the design in gold foil. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

A Wonderful Life Beaver Falls bridge stamped on black, golden tan, and warm gray leather luggage tags

Then, the years. A tree that took root in 1957 keeps quiet count in its rings, so we drew the stump face and set the firm's own line, TRUSTED ADVICE SINCE 1957, in a circle around it.

Trusted Advice Since 1957 tree-rings stamping die artwork

On the keychains it sits below the rivet – one fob in warm mid-gray, one in black. The black fob takes the gold.

Trusted Advice Since 1957 tree rings stamped on black and warm gray leather keychains

And at full size, in the golden tan catchall tray, where the keys land at the end of the day.

Trusted Advice Since 1957 tree rings blind debossed on a golden tan leather catchall tray

And finally, four panes for the name Four Boys Branding – the same small tree in each, carried from first buds to bare branches, every frame broken at its midpoints the way the monogram breaks its own. IN EVERY SEASON runs beneath.

In Every Season four-tree stamping die artwork

The journals wear it in the seasons' own leathers – one in deep green for the growing months, one in honeyed russet for the harvest. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

In Every Season trees blind debossed on deep green and honeyed amber leather journals

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 Flick Financial and Four Boys Branding and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.