Red Rocks Church × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Red Rocks Church.

For the warm-up, we pressed the Red Rocks Church logo on the toiletry bags – a blind deboss on black over dark espresso, so the mark reads as a quiet shadow relief.

The Red Rocks Church logo blind-debossed on stacked black and dark espresso leather toiletry bags.

First, the welcome. "No matter what, you're welcome here" – so we built it a door. The door stands open, woodcut light raying out of it, WELCOME on the mat and NO MATTER WHAT overhead. A door felt right on the thing that carries your keys.

The black-and-white open-door stamp design created for Red Rocks Church.

The black fob carries the doorway in gold foil.

Black and poppy-red leather keychains stamped with the open-door welcome design for Red Rocks Church.

The same door travels on the toiletry bags, warm tan over chestnut.

Caramel and Sicilian leather toiletry bags stamped with the open-door welcome design for Red Rocks Church.

Next, the name itself. Two tilted slabs of sandstone and the sun coming up in the gap between them – RED ROCKS arched above, CHURCH beneath.

The black-and-white sunrise and sandstone stamp design created for Red Rocks Church.

On the catchall tray, the golden tan leather does the sandstone's work for it. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

An Arizona leather catchall tray stamped with the sunrise sandstone design for Red Rocks Church.

Keychains in golden tan and deep brown wear it just as well.

Arizona and dark espresso leather keychains stamped with the sunrise sandstone design for Red Rocks Church.

Then the path, drawn as a path. A trail climbs the mountain in switchbacks – KNOW GOD at the trailhead, LIVE ON PURPOSE on the long middle leg. GO CHANGE THE WORLD crests the summit and keeps going, off the far side.

The black-and-white switchback mission stamp design created for Red Rocks Church.

A journal is where living on purpose gets written down. One in deep pine green, one in warm tan.

Forest green and caramel leather journals stamped with the switchback mission design for Red Rocks Church.

After that, the map. Six campuses set as stars in a single constellation – the Colorado four clustered tight, then one long line reaching down to Austin and across the water to Brussels – over the words ONE CHURCH.

The black-and-white campus constellation stamp design created for Red Rocks Church.

We put it on night-sky navy toiletry bags, for the people who move between campuses.

Blueberry and dark espresso leather toiletry bags stamped with the campus constellation for Red Rocks Church.

Then we let the third line of the mission leave the state. A small figure walks the crown of the globe, the route starting in the mountains and dropping out of sight past the horizon – because the going keeps going where the eye can't follow.

The black-and-white sent-walker globe stamp design created for Red Rocks Church.

Luggage tags are the honest home for a design about being sent.

Caramel, blueberry and forest-green leather luggage tags stamped with the sent-walker globe for Red Rocks Church.

It lands on journals too, in the identity's own black and red, for planning the trip.

Black and poppy-red leather journals stamped with the sent-walker globe design for Red Rocks Church.

And finally, the one we liked the most. "We exist to make Heaven more crowded" – so we drew the rows between the rocks, every arc packed shoulder to shoulder, and left the top row empty. The empty row is the mission. Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

The black-and-white empty-row amphitheater stamp design created for Red Rocks Church.

The black tag carries it in gold foil.

Black, poppy-red and gray-sand leather luggage tags stamped with the empty-row amphitheater for Red Rocks Church.

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