Work with Us - In collaborating, customising or licensing our artworks.
We can write the DOs and DON'Ts, or you can work with us to meet your needs and ways around it and make it happen.
In the new speed of today's sharing and the evolution of AI, we embraced the new changes and loosened the way we license.
We are keeping it simple.
The use of our digitally downloadable formats and our works in general.
As a general copyright and intellectual rule, a product purchased from our shop is only for personal use other than we clearly specify and approve other uses, written specifically on the website or communicated by email clearly to the customer's requirements (ex- the need for licensing for reselling or remaking).
It can take an email! To let us know and receive our approval.
For some uses, a license may be needed.
However, in today's joy of sharing environment, we do not want to miss the fun, so we are offering a flexible approach to showing and using our works by our customers and fans. It may only be necessary to mention or promote our names and works.
Get in touch.
We are always open-minded to unexpected pop-up collaborations that make the world go around.
Licensing our retailed products.
As you see in our shop, the retailed products are for resealing or remaking.
If you come across a product you like, you can obtain the authority to resell or remake it in various ways.
Our finished retailed products may have our own designed concept, including an original artwork or a mix of more original works or their variations. The design concept may have identifiable characteristics that make it licensable for resale or remake.
For that reason, you may need a license for the retailed product. The artwork will only be included in the product license in the shape or form used in that specific design.
Licensing our first original creations.
The original artworks used in our products' different forms, shapes, and variations are our original creations, excluding those that may not be ours as part of work collaborations.
When the retail products in our shops inspire you to use one of our original artworks, and you are interested only in licensing the original artwork for your own ideas, we have our GALLERY showcasing the first originals and many of their original variations, from which you can license them.
Please go to https://www.afterhourshop.com/
Their collections and names match the in-shop description to help you find your work.
We are open-minded in sharing our works; check with us on how you use them.
As the original artworks and the product design used in our retailed products purchased from our shop comes closest to the original conception, please keep in mind that other than the personal use of our products-e.g., NOT for commercial, public expositions, showrooms, galleries, interior design projects, or material use in creating your own work, etc. - may require a formal license from us beforehand, for the original artwork, or for the product design, to protect and cover your project by any unexpected issue that can appear later.
We will write a license tailored to your project.
We are happy to see our works leave the studio and make others' lives more colourful. And if they do, it makes ours, too.
Let us know THE COLLECTION you buy from and the NAME OF THE PRODUCT (ex: Print first drawings - ali fashion, 70's crush, alien girls, etc.)
We will send you all the licensing information.
Commissioning.
As we create and make our products in our studio, we can easily adapt to client specifications. Drop an email.
In one particular case-
Chaps, Sods and Fellowettes characters have a unique string that runs through each of them and gives them the quirky, surreal originality and mind-wandering look, but at the same time, the way they are created makes them hard to be commissioned. It is the unintentional process through which they are born, as Tony Costin, the creator, tries to figure out the process himself:
" There is no intention or theme behind any work I do. These are purely intuitive and spontaneous, line by line, and what comes up at the end is out of my will and not even part of my intention to draw. Most of them are creating while I am putting on hold on the phone. A simple, spontaneous pen stroke or a scribble on a piece of paper, in the spare, lose mind-drifting moment, is all enough to pull me involuntarily through the character-building process by adding line after line."
However, we have the will to try it if you have a desired idea or a specific theme.
But before that, you have the choice of any of existed characters. We will let you know if it is free of any ownership or licensing and if and how it was ever used in any other way by us or anybody else.
What we can do is personalise - remix - any existing work (character, illustration, poster, logo, pen on paper, digital, painting on canvas, etc.) if you want to use any of our existing characters in any way in your project.
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Contact us, and your message will go directly to the creators.
You can either choose to write to us directly from your email box or by completing the contact form below at client@lateoffice.com