Mass General Brigham × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Mass General Brigham.

For the warm-up, we pressed the Mass General Brigham logo lengthwise along the luggage tags – the navy and pale sea-blue tags take it blind. The black tag carries the gold.

Mass General Brigham official logo used as the source artwork for a leather stamping study

Mass General Brigham logo blind debossed and gold stamped across three leather luggage tags

Next, we drew a compass rose for the system itself. 16 points. 1 for each member institution. And at the center, the four lobes of their own mark – every point radiating from the same shared middle.

It looks genuinely beautiful stamped into the leather.

Black and white sixteen-point compass rose die designed for Mass General Brigham

Sixteen-point compass rose blind debossed on two leather toiletry bags for Mass General Brigham

Sixteen-point compass rose blind debossed on blue and green leather keychains for Mass General Brigham

Sixteen-point compass rose blind debossed inside an arizona leather catchall tray for Mass General Brigham

And finally, the journals. The cover asks WHAT COMES NEXT IN MEDICINE and leaves one blank line beneath the question – the pages are where it gets answered.

Black and white What Comes Next in Medicine journal die designed for Mass General Brigham

What Comes Next in Medicine blind debossed on blue and pale warm greige leather journals for Mass General Brigham

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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