Vandre Travel × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world marks.
A July study.
Vandre Travel is Kyle Rose’s advisory in Denver, a Fora-affiliated shop and a Virtuoso member, planning upscale hotels, off-the-beaten-path journeys and so on. The name reaches back to a college semester in Copenhagen – his first time outside the United States – and his About page explains that vandre is Danish for “to wander.” By his own count the wandering now stands at sixty-four countries on six continents, which suggests the semester took.
The site sets the name in warm, restrained type and stops there. A Danish verb of walking abroad, dressed that plainly, seemed to ask for a path drawn under it, and we wanted to be the ones to draw one.
As found
The mark this study proposes
We set VANDRE above an underline that wanders – a slow rise and dip that ends in a small arrow – with TRAVEL beneath in spaced capitals, the whole mark run lengthwise for a tag. Our first pass let the line drift too far and it read as a doodle; the drawing here wanders once, then commits to its arrow, which is roughly what a good trip does.
Pressed
Caramel answers the warm tan the site gives the name, and gray-sand holds the pale, quiet ground its pages rest on. Black carries the gold. The wandering line takes the deboss well; a groove that turns is still a groove, and the arrow survives at tag scale.
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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