Studio M Hospitality × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Studio M Hospitality.

For the warm-up, we put the Studio M Hospitality logo on the luggage tags, lengthwise, the way that wide lockup wants to lie. The trio runs from pale greige through deep wine to black – their own monochrome with the wine of their portraits let in. The black tag carries the gold.

Studio M Hospitality logo in white on a charcoal field

Studio M Hospitality logo pressed on black, wine and pale greige luggage tags

Next, the room key. We drew the tag that once hung behind every front desk, old bit key still on its ring, and lettered it EVERY ROOM TELLS A STORY – a studio that writes design narratives for a living may as well say so on the thing that opens the door. On the black fob the press goes down in gold, the way brass tags were once lettered; the deep wine fob takes it blind.

Every Room Tells a Story vintage hotel key tag die artwork for Studio M Hospitality

Every Room Tells a Story pressed on black and wine leather keychains

Then, the toiletry bags. A banded bar of hotel soap under COMPLIMENTS OF THE HOUSE – which is exactly what a gifted kit is. Warm gray over dark espresso, pressed blind in the corner.

Compliments of the House hotel soap die artwork for Studio M Hospitality

Compliments of the House pressed on gray and dark espresso toiletry bags

For the passport covers, we rang the front desk bell – CHECKING IN, caught mid-strike. A studio that builds hotels in other cities spends a fair share of its life arriving. Deep wine and pale greige. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Checking In front desk bell die artwork for Studio M Hospitality

Checking In bell pressed on wine and pale greige passport covers

The catchall tray became a drawing sheet: a guest room plan, door swing and all, with EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE in the title block. The tray's evening duty and the space planner's creed turn out to be the same sentence. Pressed into the golden tan.

Everything in Its Place guest room plan die artwork for Studio M Hospitality

Everything in Its Place guest room plan pressed into a golden tan catchall tray

And finally, the one we liked the most. A journal is a room with work going on inside, so the cover hangs the sign – DO NOT DISTURB, DESIGN IN PROGRESS. Black beside warm gray; on the black cover the blind press reads as a quiet shadow relief. It looks genuinely beautiful.

Do Not Disturb Design in Progress door hanger die artwork for Studio M Hospitality

Do Not Disturb Design in Progress pressed on black and warm gray leather journals

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 Studio M Hospitality and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.