Licensing & Design
Licensing & Design
“Sometimes the work you never planned becomes the work you're meant to create and past works take on new shapes.”
Gerard Marinaccio
Original Works
PRIVATE SALES · COMMISSIONS · EDITIONS
FOR DESISN HOUSES AND HOSPITATLIY
Original Works Re-Imagined
Gerard works with acrylic and oil on canvas, birch and found surfaces; format follows feeling.
After years of staring at originals and imagining them in new shapes, Alyssa left FinTech after Gerard's accident to go all in on family and bring those visions to life.
MOTIF SYSTEM · FIGURES OF PROTECTION
More than art. A vocabulary .
Three figures from Gerard's paintings, drawn for a new era where humanity is the hot commodity and luxury is defined through spirit. One grips a surface, one fills a surface, one applies to a surface, so a licensee gets a system instead of a logo.
Each figure has no face, no detail and no gesture. The posture does the work, and the customer fills in the identity. A defined share of proceeds protects children and supports fair trade in the supply chains the licence runs through.
HANG · CARRY · CHERISH
The pull that reminds you to hang on.
Hang figureDrawn as a line, it cuts as a clip, so the motif grips the product rather than sitting on it. Hang arrives as hardware rather than decoration: no printing, stitching or surface preparation required.
- Format
- Line-mark · cast component
- Scale
- Reads from 20 mm up
- Colour
- Polished gold, matte black, satin
- Finish
- Lost-wax cast · plate · enamel
- Files
- AI · EPS · SVG · STL
- Status
- Open · all categories
Fine jewellery
Hardware
Add exampleTabletop: a cast clip on a cup rim, made as a gifting object.
Why now: bag charm volume grew 12× on JOOR in H1 2025. Hang was designed for that category rather than adapted into it.
The weight carried in the curve of the back.
Carry figureA kneeling body, head bowed. Drawn without a face, it reads as posture before it reads as a person, and works as an outline or as a solid fill.
- Format
- Line-mark or solid fill · vector
- Scale
- Reads from 15 mm up
- Colour
- Blanc on noir, reverses to noir on light
- Finish
- Screen · DTF · emboss · engrave
- Files
- AI · EPS · SVG · PNG
- Status
- Open · all categories
DTF
Embroidery
EmbroideryTabletop: a matte black bookend or statue.
A guardian angel in a single continuous line.
Cherish figureIt reads as a small embroidered chest mark or a blind-embossed emblem, holds its form from twelve millimetres up, and never needs more than one colour.
- Format
- Single-colour line-mark · vector
- Scale
- Reads from 12 mm up
- Colour
- Noir, extensible across palettes
- Finish
- Embroidery · DTF · emboss · foil · cast
- Files
- AI · EPS · SVG · PNG
- Status
- Open · all categories
Deboss
Embroidery
Embroidery
Spray
CastOne file, no redraw.
Deboss, embroidery, cast metal, print, spray and gold foil, all from the same artwork.
THE CAMPAIGN
The wearer completes the sentence. Each figure asks a different question, and the answer belongs to the customer rather than the house.
Protected by my
What you hold onto
Hang
Carry
What you carry
Cherish
What protects you
The product
A capsule carrying all three figures: surface mark, cast fitting, solid silhouette.
The prompt
Each piece ships with its sentence unfinished. The customer names their own protection.
The proceeds
A defined share of net wholesale to a named child-protection partner, audited and published annually.
A campaign line the customer writes is one a competitor cannot copy.
The case for meaning
Why houses are licensing it now
40%+
of luxury brands have seen brand searches fall. The industry's own mandate for 2026 is to rebuild meaning.
Bain & Company / Altagamma, 2025–26
9.7%
premium consumers will pay for ethically and sustainably produced goods.
PwC, 2024
73%
say they would trust a brand more if it authentically reflected today's culture.
Edelman Trust Barometer, 2025
1.66M
visitors to Heavenly Bodies, the most-visited exhibition in the Met's history.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
Cause-Led Campaigns
The studio requests all partners lead with transparency and define a campaign partner that protect our children or childhood-focused artistic initiatives.
OPERATIONAL PARTNER
GoodWeave International
Certification against child and forced labour in supply chains
Acts on the supply chain. Unannounced inspections against an accredited standard, and the only partner that can audit the licensee itself.
CAMPAIGN PARTNER - RECOMMENDATION
A credential that survives scrutiny. Founded by Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi.
Proven at scale. Over 28 million products label-certified and close to 260,000 inspections to date.
Native to the categories. Textiles, jewellery and home goods: the same supply chains the licence runs through.
PACT
Protect All Children from Trafficking · formerly ECPAT-USA
Built for corporate partnership. An established private-sector engagement program; they have worked with industry before.
Financially unimpeachable. 99% for finance and accountability at Charity Navigator, plus a Gold Seal of Transparency.
Reach that matches the licence. 122 member organizations across 104 countries.
Weight beyond the cheque. Legislative advocacy and policy work, including US law on sex tourism.
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