Papaya Travel and Company × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Papaya Travel and Company has been furnishing escapes from Utah since 2004 – owner Marc Neves is a hapa Hawaiian with all seven continents behind him and a signature line to the South Pacific, Tahiti above all. His wordmark is a friendly thing: bold rounded lowercase blue with AND COMPANY tucked underneath in gold. It runs long, so we ran it lengthwise.
The mark, as found
Pressed lengthwise
Navy blueberry for the deep Pacific in his brand blue, a pale sea-blue for the lagoon it lands in, and black for the gold pass.
The papaya canoe
Then the second die, for the name itself: a papaya halved and rigged as an outrigger canoe, seeds aboard like passengers, two calm waves under the hull. Pack your bags – the fruit is seaworthy.
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 Papaya Travel and Company and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.