Now Departing Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Now Departing Travel is Debbie’s luxury travel practice in Colorado, and the name is the sound of a gate agent picking up the microphone. Debbie spent more than forty years as an international flight attendant; she was already flying before she finished college, so the departure board has been her weather report for most of a working life. These days she leads escorted small-group journeys, and luxury river cruising and small-ship sailing fill out the calendar.
The mark earned this study on geometry. A teal N and a D share one spine, and exactly two horizontal wave strokes cross the joint where they meet, water standing in for a crossbar. Below, wide capitals spell NOW DEPARTING over a smaller, tracked TRAVEL. Two waves are a promise a die can keep. Her own line for all of it reads “Discover the world, rediscover yourself.”
The mark, as found
Pressed lengthwise
Lengthwise, because the wordmark is wide and the tag is long, and both facts were settled before we arrived. Two leathers came straight from her pages, a pale sea-blue answering the teal of the monogram and a gray-sand taken from the site’s quiet paper ground. Black carried the gold. We pressed the monogram alone at first and it looked orphaned on all that length; the wide capitals wanted back in, so the full lockup went on.
Ready to depart?
Her site closes its pitch with the question “Ready to depart?”, and a question that good deserves a picture. We drew an airplane lifting off, its two contrails bent into the same waves that cross the monogram, with READY TO DEPART? set beneath in matching wide capitals. The waves carrying over is what keeps the two tags reading as a set.
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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