Swampscott High School × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For Swampscott High School.

For the warm-up, we put the Swampscott High School logo on the luggage tags – navy and pale sea-blue for the water it faces, sand for the shore where the water lands.

The official Swampscott High School blue path and open-book logo.

The Swampscott High School logo blind debossed on navy, pale sea-blue, and sand leather luggage tags.

Next, we took "Navigating Paths to Success" at its word and set it around a compass. The needle that finds north is a pen nib – here, writing is how you get where you are going.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

Black and white pen-nib compass stamping die artwork for Swampscott High School.

On keychains in the school's two blues, navy and pale sea-blue.

The Swampscott High School pen-nib compass blind debossed on navy and pale sea-blue leather keychains.

The same compass rides the toiletry bags, navy over warm brown, and the golden tan catchall tray.

The Swampscott High School pen-nib compass blind debossed on navy and warm brown leather toiletry bags.

The Swampscott High School pen-nib compass blind debossed on a golden tan leather catchall tray.

And finally, the one for the English rooms. An open book, and a swell rising out of it that crests like a wave – a poem is written in the quiet first, then said out loud.

Black and white open-book and rising-voice stamping die artwork for Swampscott High School.

On journals in navy and sand – ink and page. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

The Swampscott High School Out Loud design blind debossed on navy and sand 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 Swampscott High School and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.