Landscape Architecture Practice × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

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

An August study.

For the landscape architecture practice.

The identity as it stands is plain type: the name, then the discipline after the comma. We pressed it first, exactly as found.

Plain-type identity for the landscape architecture practice

For the proposed mark we borrowed the practice's own drawing language. Thin contour lines run the width of the field and bow apart around the name, the way a grading plan eases its lines around whatever is going to stand there. The mark runs wide, so it lies along the length of the tags; deep forest green over golden tan reads as canopy over open ground, and dark espresso closes the section as soil.

Proposed contour-line identity mark for the landscape architecture practice

Forest green, golden tan and dark espresso leather luggage tags with a contour-line landscape architecture mark

One note on a planting plan carries the force of law: EXISTING TREE TO REMAIN. We cut it for the keychains, because keys are the other small things a person is determined to keep – deep forest green for the canopy, mottled chestnut for the bark.

Black and white Existing Tree to Remain stamp design

Forest green and Sicilian brown leather keychains blind debossed Existing Tree to Remain

A north arrow keeps to the corner of the sheet, and our maker's mark keeps to the corner of the bag, so the two conventions agree. TRUE NORTH rides the kits that get packed for site visits, a warm stone gray stacked over chestnut, blind debossed.

Black and white True North drafting-arrow stamp design

Country gray and Sicilian brown leather toiletry bags blind debossed True North

The tray takes a grading plan of its own: closed contours climbing to a spot elevation, with HIGH POINT written inline in the outermost line, the way a label rides its contour on a working drawing. Whatever lands in the golden tan at the end of the day settles somewhere on that slope.

Black and white High Point contour stamp design

Golden tan leather catchall tray blind debossed with High Point contours

Drawings leave the office at one inch to twenty feet; the site happens at full size. The journals carry a graphic scale bar reading SCALE 1 TO 1, pressed generously in the corner – field notes at the scale of the ground, one in deep forest green and one in warm caramel.

Black and white Scale 1 to 1 graphic scale stamp design

Forest green and caramel leather journals blind debossed Scale 1 to 1

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