Gulliver's Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Gulliver's Travel of O'Fallon, Missouri has been sending people places since 1988 – the kind of small shop where the reviews mention agents by first name and clients count their loyalty in decades. Their mark is pure monochrome: a bold G with a jet banking up through it, then the name in classic serif. Thirty-eight years, and not once have they made the joke sitting in their own name. We admire the restraint. We also couldn't resist.
The mark, as found
Pressed lengthwise
A pale sea-blue for the Caribbean water they sell most, caramel for a steamer trunk's worth of heritage, and black for the gold pass.
Gulliver's luggage
The second die goes to Lilliput: one big suitcase, tied down with four little ropes and staked to the ground – because in that country, even the luggage gets the Gulliver treatment. A literary wink, thirty-eight years in the making.
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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