Grand Explorations × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Grand Explorations is Rene Prasad’s Virtuoso-affiliated boutique travel practice in Westport, Connecticut, founded in 2015. Years of technology-sales travel had left her well acquainted with placeless chain hotels, and the practice she built afterward seeks out properties with a strong sense of place – among them a family-run inn outside Cortona, held for seven generations. Her own tally now stands at forty-four-plus countries across all seven continents.
Her site carries one line we kept returning to: “You Know the Difference Between a Trip and a Journey.” We came away from this month’s visit with the name in plain type and that sentence, and the sentence turned out to be enough, because it hands a stamp maker a picture almost fully drawn.
As found
The mark this study proposes
Two lines travel between the same pair of points, set lengthwise above GRAND EXPLORATIONS in open capitals. The upper line runs straight and dashed, the way a trip gets drawn on an airline map. The lower one wanders. We considered lettering the words trip and journey beneath each line, and decided the tag says it without help.
Pressed
We pressed the study into a deep navy-blue of our own choosing and a pale gray-sand that suits the quiet of the plain type. Black carries the gold.
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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