EXPLORE BEARING™
BEARING™ IS AN INDEPENDENT LABEL
BY S® AFTERHOURS STUDIO
S®Afterhours started in Maidstone, Kent, England, in 2008 and Nouvelle Aquitaine, France, in 2015 with start-up ideas, concepts, experiments, and designs. The shop has experimental works, art, capsule designs, one-off pieces, and new start-up labels.
Behind the studio are the founder, Tony Costin, a designer, artist, and maker with a passion for design, business, manufacturing, branding and Intellectual Property, along with his partner and wife, Judi Castille, a tax and management accountant sharing the same love for business bringing her old passion for traditional, whimsical illustration and writing and most recently AI-assisted experimentation. They are directly involved in the whole process, from conceptualising to producing and finishing products.
PURSUE PERSONAL™ /BEARING™ Hand-crafted notebooks.
Bearing™ is a concept atelier and studio with entirely in-house design, making, and printing of its brand notebooks and fully conceptualizing and tailoring service for its customers. Tony Costin, the founder of the Bearing™ concept, is the hands-on designer and maker behind the recognisable mark. The atelier focuses on 'honest manufacturing' with only hand-operated, manual small machines used, managing closely transparent information, low waste, cost and price that are genuinely reflected in Bearing™ notebooks.
EXPLORE THE ATELIER
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BEARING™ Tailoring. In-house service for our customers.
Become our Bearing™ Tailored Client.
If you are already our customer or want to become one, you can take advantage of our in-house Bearing™ Tailored Service.
Our tailored feature maintains the core principles of our atelier in designing and crafting Bearing™ Notebooks, which we retain in our custom works.
Here are some examples:
The page's lines, squares, or dots can be resized, and other prints can be applied; we can discuss notebook sizes of various dimensions or incorporate your own personal paper supplied into your series.
We can include personalised Page Inserts in a notebook, which are specific informational or illustrated pages inserted at the beginning, middle or end, distinct from the writing pages. We can also incorporate messages, dedications, or other personal written touches. You can request a specific number of pages in the notebook and decide on the illustrations and designs on the covers.
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We welcome additional personalised and custom ideas for exploration.
We aim to offer efficient, cost-effective tailoring services in exchange for customer satisfaction.
Baring™ Tailoring is an in-house service available to our existing customers, relying on direct discussions with our creators.
Email us at client@lateoffice.com your custom preferences, and we will begin the conversation.
We can tailor your notebook to your specifications and provide the continuity of supply of repeated orders on-demand as long as you need.
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CONCEPTUALISED, HANDMADE and PRINTED IN FRANCE- In Creuse 23, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in our Afterhourshop Atelier. Only hand-operated, manual small machines are used.
Our fundamental values.
Bearing™ Notebooks are conceptualised with design in mind for simplicity and functionality in the honest manufacturing of an object, in sourcing the materials, avoiding wasted cuts, not using promotional parts only to be thrown at the purchase, not using unhygienic glued labels attached or plastic coated applications on our materials.
They are conceptualised and made here, in our shop in Creuse, in the centre of France.Only hand-operated, manual small machines are used, and only bare-to-minimum needed costs, operations and techniques are in-house designed and implemented, with all in mind to make Bearing™ notebooks uncomplicated and affordable. We are constantly seeking ways to eliminate time-wasting operations, reduce extra costs, and eliminate other inefficient methods that unjustly raise the price of a notebook.
We proudly inform and advise our customers on ways to save money and get more value from their purchases through our email notifications and transparent marketing.
