ISR Fort Worth × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For ISR Fort Worth.

First, the warm-up. We pressed the polar bear exactly as he floats, and dressed the luggage tags in colors from his own picture – pale sea-blue and navy for the water, dusty lavender for the shirt.

The illustrated ISR Fort Worth polar bear floating through an aqua water splash.

Three leather luggage tags in pale sea-blue, navy, and lilac stamped with the ISR Fort Worth polar bear mark.

Next, the companion die. Every lesson here begins from the same first move – when the water surprises you, roll onto your back and breathe. So we set a small swimmer resting on the waterline inside a ring, under two words that hold up just as well on dry land.

A black-and-white FLOAT FIRST stamp design showing a swimmer calmly floating on a waterline for ISR Fort Worth.

On the keychains, pale sea-blue and navy – the surface and the deep. This one rides in a parent's pocket.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

Pale sea-blue and navy leather keychains stamped with the FLOAT FIRST swimmer design for ISR Fort Worth.

Then the toiletry bags, navy over deep espresso brown – the bag that goes wherever the water is.

Navy and deep espresso leather toiletry bags stamped with the FLOAT FIRST swimmer design for ISR Fort Worth.

The catchall tray takes the same stamp at a generous size, in golden tan. A catchall is where the day's cargo finally comes to rest, which is rather the point of the words.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with the FLOAT FIRST swimmer design for ISR Fort Worth.

And finally, a design just for the journals. The full course is ten minutes a day, four lessons a week – twenty-four short sessions, and the water becomes a solved problem. We drew the whole course as a grid of twenty-four small squares and filled in day one. The covers are dusty lavender and navy.

A black-and-white TEN MINUTES A DAY practice-grid stamp design for ISR Fort Worth.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Lilac and navy leather wrap journals stamped with the TEN MINUTES A DAY practice grid for ISR Fort Worth.

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