Vivian Marino × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies in leather.

An August study.

For Vivian Marino.

First, the luggage tags. In property law, a house is real property and anything you can carry is personal property – so we drew a house you can carry, with a suitcase handle rising straight off the roof ridge, and set PERSONAL PROPERTY beneath it.

The black-and-white Personal Property house and suitcase-handle stamp design created for Vivian Marino.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather. Two tags run warm tan and warm red, pressed blind. The black tag carries the design in gold foil.

Black, warm tan and warm red leather luggage tags stamped with the Personal Property design for Vivian Marino.

Next, the keychains. We set BIG TICKET as an actual ticket, scalloped punch ends and all, with ADMIT ONE underneath – which is exactly what a key does.

The black-and-white Big Ticket Admit One stamp design created for Vivian Marino.

One fob is golden tan. The black fob carries the gold.

Black and golden tan leather keychains stamped with the Big Ticket design for Vivian Marino.

Then, the toiletry bags. A newsroom overnighter is written after dark so it can make the morning edition. A suitcase knows the other kind. We pressed a crescent moon over a small valise into the corner of the stack – a black bag over a deep brown one, blind – with THE OVERNIGHTER beneath.

The black-and-white crescent moon and Overnighter stamp design created for Vivian Marino.

Black and deep brown leather toiletry bags stamped with The Overnighter design for Vivian Marino.

After that, the catchall tray – the one we liked the most. We drew a floor plan into the golden tan base: a small flat where KEYS takes the foyer and PHONE gets the parlor, under a title block reading A HOME FOR EVERYTHING. Whatever lands in the tray at night has an address by morning.

The black-and-white Home for Everything floor-plan stamp design created for Vivian Marino.

A golden tan leather catchall tray stamped with the Home for Everything floor plan for Vivian Marino.

Next, the journals. STET is the proofreader's mercy – dots under the word, let it stand. On the front of a blank book it reads as a promise to the first draft.

The black-and-white Stet Let It Stand proofreader stamp design created for Vivian Marino.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather – one journal in deep wine, one in pale greige.

Deep wine and pale greige leather journals stamped with the Stet design for Vivian Marino.

And finally, the passport covers. We set PRESS between two stars inside a double rule, like a card tucked into a hatband, and pressed it at the size a monogram would take – one cover in navy, one in deep green.

The black-and-white vintage Press credential stamp design created for Vivian Marino.

Navy and deep green leather passport covers stamped with the Press credential design for Vivian Marino.

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