The Long Game – a leather collection in the language of the game table

A September study.

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We spent the month designing in the language of the game table. The Long Game is a small leather collection built on the phrases a household of players trades for decades, pressed into objects meant to last about as long.

First, we set two tumbling dice above the words YOUR TURN – the oldest instruction in the house, pressed onto the thing you hand over when the driving changes hands.

Black and white die artwork of two tumbling dice above YOUR TURN for The Long Game leather collection.

One keychain in warm red for the red player, one in navy for the blue.

A poppy red leather keychain blind stamped with dice and YOUR TURN from The Long Game collection.

A blueberry leather keychain blind stamped with dice and YOUR TURN from The Long Game collection.

Next, we drew a game track that runs the whole length of the luggage tag, from a suitcase on the first square to a little house on the last. THE LONG WAY HOME rides over the bend. Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black and white die artwork of a suitcase-to-house game track for The Long Game leather collection.

The black tag carries the design in gold foil.

A black leather luggage tag gold stamped with THE LONG WAY HOME from The Long Game collection.

On deep green and warm tan, the same road presses blind.

A forest green leather luggage tag blind stamped with THE LONG WAY HOME from The Long Game collection.

A caramel leather luggage tag blind stamped with THE LONG WAY HOME from The Long Game collection.

Then we planted a small pennant over the words AWAY GAME and pressed it into the corner of the toiletry bags – navy stacked on chestnut, packed before the weekend has a plan.

Black and white die artwork of a pennant above AWAY GAME for The Long Game leather collection.

Blueberry and Sicilian brown leather toiletry bags blind stamped with AWAY GAME from The Long Game collection.

Then, for the catchall tray, we laid a chess king on its side beneath the words END OF TURN – the piece rests and the day is played. It looks absolutely gorgeous stamped into the golden tan.

Black and white die artwork of a resting chess king above END OF TURN for The Long Game leather collection.

An Arizona brown leather catchall tray blind stamped with END OF TURN from The Long Game collection.

And finally, we built a small house whose doorway is a pawn, and set it over the words HOUSE RULES in the corner of the journals – the book where the real rules get written down, amendments and all. It presses in deep green and in deep brown.

Black and white die artwork of a house with a pawn doorway above HOUSE RULES for The Long Game leather collection.

A forest green leather journal blind stamped with HOUSE RULES from The Long Game collection.

A dark espresso leather journal blind stamped with HOUSE RULES from The Long Game collection.

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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