The Specialty Alliance × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For The Specialty Alliance.

First, the star. We folded one continuous band into five distinct points – the old star-knot – and set MANY SPECIALTIES above it, ONE ALLIANCE below. Independent practices tied in a single unbroken line, with a nod to Southlake.

A black stamping die design for The Specialty Alliance showing one interlaced star above the words One Alliance.

On the luggage tags the star stands upright, pressed blind into navy and into pale sand. The black tag carries it in gold.

Three leather luggage tags for The Specialty Alliance in navy, pale sand, and black, stamped with an interlaced alliance star.

It presses deep and generous into the golden tan of the catchall tray. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

An Arizona leather catchall tray for The Specialty Alliance stamped with an interlaced alliance star.

Next, we braided five strands through the middle of the run and let them leave the way they came – five separate lines, each with its own lay. Their own words sit beneath the plait: SCALE WITHOUT COMPROMISE.

A black stamping die design for The Specialty Alliance showing five strands braided beneath the words Scale Without Compromise.

On the toiletry bags, navy stacked over deep brown, the braid sits small in the corner like a maker's mark.

Navy and deep brown leather toiletry bags for The Specialty Alliance stamped with a five-strand braid.

The keychains take it in navy and in warm red.

Navy and warm red leather keychains for The Specialty Alliance stamped with a five-strand braid.

And finally, the journals. A fountain nib above the line it has just drawn, and PHYSICIAN LED beneath – the orders here are written in the physician's own hand. It looks genuinely beautiful.

A black stamping die design for The Specialty Alliance showing a fountain pen nib above the words Physician Led.

Navy and pale sand leather journals for The Specialty Alliance stamped with a physician-led fountain pen 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.

If you're The Specialty Alliance and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.