Sound Travels × Leatherius Woodman – a Phoenix leather collection
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world logos.
An August study.
Sound Travels is a small leather collection for Phoenix – for the Valley, where the Sonoran Desert and a city full of music share one horizon. Five designs, pressed into luggage tags, journals and their companions.
First, the design that named the collection. A single line crosses the die the way sound crosses the Valley – it enters as a waveform and lifts into a mountain ridge, then runs out flat and quiet past a lone saguaro. We put SOUND TRAVELS on a trio of luggage tags in golden tan and deep green, with a true black third. The black tag carries the design in gold.
It looks genuinely beautiful.
Next, the monsoon. We hung six strings from a cloud, and halfway down they give up being strings and fall as rain. Anyone who has stood in the desert when the creosote opens up knows what to call it – SMELLS LIKE RAIN, pressed into a stack of toiletry bags, navy over chestnut.
Then we drew what a saguaro has quietly been all along – a tuning fork with both arms raised, holding its note for two centuries. PERFECT PITCH, on keychains in deep green and true black. The black fob takes the stamp in gold.
Looks great when stamped onto the leather.
A catchall tray is the one instrument everybody plays – keys land in it every evening, and it rings. So the tray says DROP A NOTE, an eighth note settling into its own ripples, pressed into golden tan.
And finally, the one we liked the most. A fermata is the mark for a silence held as long as you please. Drawn at desert scale, its dot becomes the sun and its arc the sky over one low ridge – BEFORE THE FIRST NOTE, which is exactly what a blank page is. Journals in pale warm greige and deep wine.
Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.
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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