Still Golden – a Golden, Colorado leather collection
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world logos.
A September study.
Volume I-D – Gift-Fit Independent Study.
This one is for Golden, Colorado. We designed Still Golden, a small leather collection drawn from the town's own stories, running from luggage tags to leather journals.
First, we drew the Washington Avenue arch the way it greets everyone driving in, mountains waiting at the end of the street, and set the arch's own promise underneath – WHERE THE WEST LIVES.
It looks genuinely beautiful.
The black tag takes the design in gold foil. A town named Golden earns that pass.
Next, the Table Mountains that hold the town between them. Golden was the last flat place before the Rockies, where wagons took on supplies ahead of the climb, so the mesa's flat cap carries the phrase itself – THE LAST FLAT PLACE.
A toiletry bag gets packed the night before the climb, so the stamp rides in its corner like a supply note – here on golden tan over chestnut.
Then, the catchall tray. Clear Creek was first called Cannonball Creek for its round stream stones – the Armory downtown took 3,300 wagonloads of them. We ringed the old name in those cobbles, so the tray can hold the small round things your own day washes up.
And finally, the one we liked the most. Golden was Colorado's capital from 1862 to 1867, until Denver took the title by a single vote. The journal cover casts that ballot one more time and lets the town have the last word – STILL GOLDEN.
It comes in warm amber and in deep espresso brown, and the espresso one reads like a courthouse ledger.
We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this Golden, Colorado 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'd like anything from Still Golden made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.
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