Moore Rabinowitz Law × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
An August study.
Moore Rabinowitz Law is a South Florida boutique that began in the summer of 2018, when Sheryl Moore and Adam Rabinowitz walked away from two big firms where the bureaucracy had worn thin, and set up a practice close enough to its clients to answer the phone. They put both surnames on the door and hinged them with one small two-tone diamond. The line from their own pages that stayed with us is a plain one about the team: “Their hearts are in it.” They also say they keep in touch with clients after the litigation ends, which is a quietly radical promise for a litigation firm to put in writing.
The mark, as found
A tall gray M over a burgundy R, joined at their shared center by a small diamond, and beneath them the motto in full: “GUIDED BY TRUST ♦ POWERED BY EXPERIENCE®”. The wide lockup is the one we pressed.
Pressed
The motto lockup runs long, so it takes the long axis of a lengthwise luggage tag. We pressed it blind into deep wine and warm mid-gray, the two colors the mark already owns – the burgundy of the R and the cool gray of the M, each name keeping its own leather. The third tag is true black, and black carries the gold: the same lockup foiled on the one leather that takes it.
The compass
Their motto reads like a bearing taken before a long matter: guided first, powered second. So we drew the firm an instrument. GUIDED BY TRUST arcs across the top of the ring and POWERED BY EXPERIENCE across the bottom, the two phrases parted east and west by small diamonds, and at the center of the four-point star sits their own diamond, split light and dark exactly as it sits between the M and the R. The needle points where the firm says it always has.
On the keychains the compass takes the fob in deep wine and in warm mid-gray – one leather for each half of the diamond, one for each name on the door. A key is the most daily of objects, and a bearing is a good thing to carry with one.
The catchall tray gives the same rose room to open up, pressed generously into golden tan leather that photographs a shade brighter than life. Keys and whatever else the day emptied out land inside the ring.
The colophon
Printers used to close a book with a colophon, a small honest mark recording who made the thing and when. A firm that drafts for a living deserves one of its own. Ours sets MOORE RABINOWITZ over the split diamond, with EST 2018 beneath – the summer two partners decided a smaller firm could be the better one.
The colophon works as a corner mark. On the dopp kits, a true black bag over a deep brown one, it sits low in the right corner, blind on both leathers; deboss on black reads as a shadow, which suits a firm whose confidence is quiet.
The journals take it larger, still anchored in the lower right, in deep wine and deep brown – the wine for the scholar, the brown for the boardroom. Legal pads win the day in most conference rooms; a wrapped journal is for the notes a lawyer keeps for years.
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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