One More Life – a leather collection for Eastern Market, Washington, DC

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

An August study.

Eastern Market has held its corner of Seventh Street in Washington, DC since 1873, and a Saturday there still ends the old way – flowers under one arm, some small found thing in a pocket. We pressed that world into leather and called the collection One More Life.

First, the hall itself. We drew the gable front with its arched windows and its round attic window, set EASTERN MARKET over the roofline and SINCE 1873 beneath the base – the hall burned in 2007 and reopened in 2009, so the collection's name is partly the building's own.

The Market Hall stamp design for the One More Life leather collection rooted in Eastern Market, Washington, DC.

It looks great when stamped onto the luggage tags.

Three leather luggage tags stamped with the Market Hall design from the One More Life collection in Eastern Market, Washington, DC.

Next, the flower stall. A paper cone of market blooms with SATURDAY across the wrap – the whole weekend ritual at pocket size. The keychains wear it in pale rose and pale sea-blue.

The Saturday flower-stall stamp design for the One More Life leather collection in Eastern Market, Washington, DC.

Two leather keychains stamped with Saturday market flowers from the One More Life collection in Eastern Market, Washington, DC.

Then the journals. We tied a parcel in string and set NO PEEKING under the bow, because a journal is a wrapped parcel by nature – it stays one for everyone except the hand that writes in it. On the warm tan leather the paper reads as kraft; deep green stands beside it.

The No Peeking parcel stamp design for the One More Life leather collection in Eastern Market, Washington, DC.

Two leather journals stamped with the No Peeking parcel from the One More Life collection in Eastern Market, Washington, DC.

And finally, the design that named the collection. A struck match, and where the flame should be, a sprout – one more life. It looks genuinely beautiful.

The match-and-sprout stamp that names the One More Life leather collection in Eastern Market, Washington, DC.

We gave it the golden tan catchall tray, the dish where the day's small finds end up.

A leather catchall tray stamped with the namesake design from the One More Life collection in Eastern Market, Washington, DC.

The same die sits in the lower corner of the toiletry bags – golden tan over chestnut.

Two leather toiletry bags stamped with the namesake design from the One More Life collection in Eastern Market, Washington, DC.

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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