Ninety One × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Ninety One.

For the warm-up, we put the Ninety One logo on the luggage tags – golden tan for the amber upper fields, dark espresso for the ochre below. The third tag is black, and on black the press turns to gold foil.

Three Ninety One logo luggage tags in golden tan, dark espresso and black leather

Next, we took their purpose – "Investing for a better tomorrow" – and kept the word that does the work. A sun half-risen over the horizon, TOMORROW beneath it.

Black and white TOMORROW sunrise stamping die design for Ninety One

On the toiletry bags it sits low in the corner of a golden tan and dark espresso stack – the logo's own two warms, in leather.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Ninety One TOMORROW sunrise stamped on an amber and dark espresso leather toiletry bag stack

The journals carry the same sun, in honeyed russet and dark espresso; a better tomorrow gets written down somewhere first.

Two leather wrap journals stamped with the Ninety One TOMORROW sunrise design

Then, the keychains. Ninety One says it began "in a year of extraordinary change" – so we let one field of their square turn. Three squares hold their posts; the fourth is caught mid-rotation, and the year stands beneath.

Black and white 1991 turning-grid stamping die design for Ninety One

The duo runs golden tan and black. Black carries the gold.

Black and amber leather keychains stamped with the Ninety One 1991 turning-grid design

And finally, the one we kept coming back to. The catchall tray carries heartwood – a growth ring for every year since 1991, closing on 91 at the core.

Black and white heartwood rings and 91 stamping die design for Ninety One

It looks genuinely beautiful.

Arizona leather catchall tray stamped with heartwood rings around 91 for Ninety One

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