MCR Branding × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For MCR Branding and the Global Foundation for Peroxisomal Disorders.

For the warm-up, we put the MCR wordmark – dots and all – on the luggage tags, and let the dots pick the leathers. A pale sea-blue tag answers the cyan dot, and a vivid magenta tag answers its namesake. The third goes golden tan, after the yellow.

The official MCR Branding mark with its six colored dots, prepared for a custom leather stamping study.

Three leather luggage tags in pale sea-blue, vivid magenta, and golden tan stamped with the MCR Branding wordmark.

Next, the dots themselves. A stamp speaks only in black and white, so we translated the six colors into six fills – each circle carries a different pure-black pattern – and set SIX WAYS TO SAY IT beneath the row. That is a branding partner's whole trade in one line.

A black-and-white leather stamp design turning MCR Branding's six dots into six distinct graphic patterns above SIX WAYS TO SAY IT.

On the toiletry bags the die sits in true black over deep espresso brown, the wordmark's own register. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black and deep espresso leather toiletry bags stamped with the SIX WAYS TO SAY IT design for MCR Branding.

The keychains take the same die in dusty lavender and deep pine green – and with those two, every dot in the logo has now found its leather somewhere in this study.

Dusty lavender and deep pine green leather keychains stamped with the SIX WAYS TO SAY IT design for MCR Branding.

Then, one for the Foundation. A catchall gathers small things into a single ring, so we drew a crowd of small centers held inside one circle – among them a single open circle, the rare one, kept at the middle – with RARE above and TOGETHER below. The tray comes in golden tan.

A black-and-white leather stamp design for the Global Foundation for Peroxisomal Disorders with one open circle held among many beneath RARE TOGETHER.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with the RARE TOGETHER design for the Global Foundation for Peroxisomal Disorders.

And finally, the journals. MCR says its work begins with listening, and a journal is where what was heard gets written down – so the cover carries a small point with sound arcs arriving at it, and LISTEN FIRST beneath. One journal in true black, the other in pale warm greige, the wordmark's own field. It turned out genuinely beautiful.

A black-and-white leather stamp design with sound arcs arriving at a point above LISTEN FIRST for MCR Branding.

Black and pale warm greige leather journals stamped with the LISTEN FIRST design for MCR Branding.

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 MCR Branding or the GFPD and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.