HAWK Advisers × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For HAWK Advisers.

First, the warm-up. We pressed the HAWK Advisers mark on the luggage tags – navy for their deep blue-black, pale sea-blue for their teal. The black tag carries the mark in gold.

The official HAWK Advisers hawk and wordmark in black, prepared for a leather stamping study.

Black, blueberry navy, and pale sea-blue leather luggage tags stamped with the HAWK Advisers logo.

Next, the K. HAWK reads Hamilton and Wright Keystone – two agencies joined into one – so we built the arch. Both sides climb toward each other and hold only because of the wedge at the crown, with STRONGER TOGETHER set beneath it.

A black-and-white keystone arch stamp design reading Stronger Together for HAWK Advisers.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – keychains in navy and pale warm greige, and the dopp kits carry it low in the corner, navy over dark espresso.

Blueberry navy and pale warm gray leather keychains stamped with the HAWK Advisers keystone arch design.

Blueberry navy and dark espresso leather toiletry bags stamped with the HAWK Advisers keystone arch design.

Then, “Independent by Nature”. We gave the words their altitude – one hawk, high over the ridgelines of the Blue Ridge, and all that clean air in between. On the golden tan tray the whole valley fits.

A black-and-white hawk over Blue Ridge mountains stamp design reading Independent by Nature for HAWK Advisers.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with the HAWK Advisers bird's-eye Blue Ridge design.

And finally, the same hawk on the journals, pressed low in the corner where a signature would go – navy and pale sea-blue. It looks genuinely beautiful.

Blueberry navy and pale sea-blue leather journals stamped with the HAWK Advisers bird's-eye Blue Ridge design.

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