Socialite Auctions × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Socialite Auctions.

For the warm-up, we put the Socialite Auctions wordmark on the toiletry bags, pressed blind into navy over deep brown.

Blueberry and deep brown leather toiletry bags blind-stamped with the Socialite Auctions wordmark.

Then the auction itself, one beat per product. First, the paddle goes up. We laid its face out like a coin, the wordmark arched around 2010 – the year the bidding began.

Black-and-white auction paddle stamp artwork created for the Socialite Auctions leather study.

The black tag carries it in gold. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black, navy and pale greige leather luggage tags stamped with the Socialite Auctions auction paddle design.

Next, the hammer comes down. A key changes hands the moment it does, so the fob carries the gavel mid-strike over the one word that seals a sale.

Black-and-white gavel and SOLD stamp artwork created for the Socialite Auctions leather study.

The black fob takes the gavel in gold; on warm tan it presses blind.

Black and warm tan leather keychains stamped with the Socialite Auctions gavel and SOLD design.

Then the catalog. We pressed a lot card into the base of the tray, LOT 1 above their own words, "Forever pieces, timeless style." Whatever lands in it at day's end gets catalogued.

Black-and-white LOT 1 catalog-card stamp artwork created for the Socialite Auctions leather study.

An arizona leather catchall tray stamped with the Socialite Auctions LOT 1 catalog-card design.

And finally, provenance – their word for whose hands a thing has passed through and how well it was kept. The journals carry a collector's swing tag stamped with it in the cover's corner, because a journal is where the provenance of one's own days gets written.

Black-and-white PROVENANCE swing-tag stamp artwork created for the Socialite Auctions leather study.

In deep wine and pale greige. It looks genuinely beautiful.

Deep wine and pale greige leather journals stamped with the Socialite Auctions PROVENANCE tag design.

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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