Ian Taylor / FashionBeans × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Ian Taylor of FashionBeans.

First, the arithmetic. The FashionBeans leather-gift roundup runs to 29 entries, so we made a thirtieth – off the list, under laurels, reserved for the editor who keeps the list.

Black and white 30 OF 29 leather stamp design created for Ian Taylor of FashionBeans

The tags wear editorial black and warm newsprint gray; the third takes the red of an editor's pencil. The black one carries the gold.

Black, poppy red and country gray leather luggage tags stamped 30 OF 29 for Ian Taylor

Next, the two men from your sandals piece became a pair of keychains. The Riviera playboy gets his sunglasses on pale sea-blue; the metropolitan commuter gets a furled umbrella, black on black, because he would keep it quiet.

Black and white Riviera Playboy sunglasses stamp design inspired by Ian Taylor's FashionBeans work

Black and white Metropolitan Commuter umbrella stamp design inspired by Ian Taylor's FashionBeans work

The pair looks great side by side.

Sea blue and black leather keychains inspired by Ian Taylor's Riviera and commuter style writing

Then your verdict on factory-distressed sneakers – wear has to be earned – became the stamp for the Dopp kits: a properly creased sneaker over EARNS ITS WEAR. We pressed it into a stack of honeyed russet over deep espresso, pull-up leather that scuffs and darkens the same honest way.

Black and white Earns Its Wear sneaker stamp design created for Ian Taylor of FashionBeans

Russet and espresso leather Dopp kits stamped Earns Its Wear for Ian Taylor

After that, the phrase you gave the FashionBeans reader – "time-poor, choice-rich" – found its object. A catchall tray is where the time-poor man empties his choice-rich pockets each night, so we set the words around an hourglass and gave the golden-tan tray the most generous press of the study.

Black and white Time Poor Choice Rich hourglass stamp design created for Ian Taylor of FashionBeans

Golden tan leather catchall tray stamped Time Poor Choice Rich for Ian Taylor

And finally, the one we liked the most. STET is the oldest verdict in editing – let it stand. On the cover of a journal it promises the first draft gets to exist, dots and all. We pressed it into ink black and newsprint gray.

Black and white STET leather journal stamp design created for Ian Taylor of FashionBeans

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Black and country gray leather journals stamped STET for Ian Taylor of FashionBeans

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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