Worth Keeping – a leather collection about noticing small things

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

A September study.

Volume I-B.

Worth Keeping is a small collection about the pleasure of noticing – for people who stop at the little thing and carry its story home. Every design here holds a second discovery for whoever looks twice.

First, the collection's emblem. We drew a magnifying glass and set a honeybee inside the lens, small enough that the words tell you exactly what to do about it.

A black-and-white stamp plate of a magnifying glass and honeybee made for the Worth Keeping leather collection.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather – the golden tan even lends the bee its honey.

A golden-tan leather keychain blind-debossed with a magnifying glass, honeybee and LOOK AGAIN for the Worth Keeping collection.

A forest-green leather keychain blind-debossed with a magnifying glass, honeybee and LOOK AGAIN for the Worth Keeping collection.

At its smallest, the same glass signs the corner of the toiletry bags, warm gray over chestnut.

Warm-gray and chestnut leather toiletry bags blind-debossed with a magnifying glass, honeybee and LOOK AGAIN for the Worth Keeping collection.

Next, a promise for the luggage tags. We opened a suitcase exactly one crack and let a single feather out – the best travelers come home with their pockets full of evidence.

A black-and-white stamp plate of a cracked-open suitcase, escaping feather and BRING SOMETHING BACK made for the Worth Keeping leather collection.

A forest-green leather luggage tag blind-debossed with a suitcase, feather and BRING SOMETHING BACK for the Worth Keeping collection.

A caramel leather luggage tag blind-debossed with a suitcase, feather and BRING SOMETHING BACK for the Worth Keeping collection.

A lilac leather luggage tag blind-debossed with a suitcase, feather and BRING SOMETHING BACK for the Worth Keeping collection.

Then, for the journals, we set a moth above the words HOLD STILL – the page is the one place it ever does.

A black-and-white stamp plate of a symmetric moth and HOLD STILL made for the Worth Keeping leather collection.

A sangria leather journal blind-debossed with a symmetric moth and HOLD STILL for the Worth Keeping collection.

A gray-sand leather journal blind-debossed with a symmetric moth and HOLD STILL for the Worth Keeping collection.

And finally, the one we liked the most. We turned the tray into a catalog of the twelve small things it is going to hold – a skeleton key, a feather and so on, each under its own label, with the bee from the lens closing the inventory. Whatever lands in it at the end of the day joins the collection.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

A black-and-white stamp plate cataloging twelve small kept objects for a catchall tray in the Worth Keeping leather collection.

A golden-tan leather catchall tray blind-debossed with the twelve-object pocket catalog for the Worth Keeping 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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