Nose High Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

A July study.

Nose High Travel is Tenaya Humphrey's luxury advisory in Colorado Springs, and the name is her résumé: she flew for the Air Force for more than twenty years, and nose high is the attitude of an aircraft at takeoff. Now she plans cruises, safaris and rail journeys – often for aviation families who hear the name and grin. Her logo draws a thin airliner over a Didone wordmark, all black, all business.

The mark, as found

Nose High Travel logo - a thin airliner over the serif wordmark

Pressed

Caramel for aviator leather, a pale sky-blue for where the nose points, and black for the gold pass.

Nose High Travel leather luggage tags - caramel, sky-blue and gold on black

Wheels up

Then the second die, for the happiest two words in flying: an airliner rotating off the runway, nose high, dashes still on the tarmac behind it. The lean-back second when the runway lets go.

Wheels-up design made for Nose High Travel - an airliner rotating off the runway

Nose High Travel wheels-up leather luggage tags - caramel, sky-blue and gold on black

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