Thirsty Bird Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Thirsty Bird Travel plans journeys from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and carries a longer story than most travel firms its size. Kimber Travis founded it after a year in Besançon, France, where her palate got its schooling, and after twenty-four years building Coeur d’Alene Cellars. Her current line reads “From the Vineyard to the Voyage,” and the order of those words is biographical fact. The practice today joins wine travel with private European journeys, though the vineyard remains where the taste was trained.
The mark made the case for a study on sight. A plump sangria bird faces right on one white wing, with THIRSTY stacked over BIRD in bold black beside it. Flat color and a firm outline; a stamping die asks for little more. The white wing gave us pause at die scale, though it holds as a clean negative shape once pressed. And the name hands us a second image for free, since a thirsty bird can take a wineglass joke with feathers all its own.
The mark, as found
Pressed lengthwise
The full horizontal mark runs the length of the tag, bird leading the wordmark toward the edge. Sangria answers the bird’s own wine-dark red, while forest green remembers the vineyard that trained her hand. Black carries the gold, as it always does.
From the Vineyard to the Voyage
For the companion we let the bird do what its name promises. It tips toward a wine glass and drinks, above “FROM THE VINEYARD TO THE VOYAGE” in pressed capitals – a portrait design, built for the tall face of a tag. The winery years stand behind that glass, so the joke arrives already earned.
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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