The phrase “licensed poster art” appears throughout the Stick No Bills website. So does “authorised,” “official” and “remastered.” These are not marketing words. They describe a specific process and a legal commitment that sits at the core of what we do.
Here is what they mean.
Licensed and Authorised
A licensed poster artwork is one that has been reproduced with the formal permission of the rights holder. That rights holder might be a brand, an estate, a museum or a private archive. In every case, Stick No Bills holds a contractual licence that grants us the right to reproduce, remaster and sell the artwork.
This matters because the vast majority of vintage poster reproductions sold online are unlicensed. They are printed without the permission of the copyright holder, often from low-resolution scans, with no attribution or quality control. The original artists, their estates and the institutions that preserve their work receive nothing.
At Stick No Bills we work directly with archives and estates to secure proper licences. We pay royalties. We attribute every work to its original artist. And we ensure that a portion of proceeds supports relevant humanitarian or environmental causes.
Our Archive Partners
Over fifteen years, Stick No Bills has built licensing relationships with some of the most significant creative archives in travel history.
Pan Am World Airways LLC granted Stick No Bills the only licence to create a poster art collection from the Pan Am archive. This collection includes original vintage poster artworks from the airline’s golden age as well as newly commissioned works such as “Pan Am, Tracing the Transatlantic,” created for the commemorative Pan Am voyage in partnership with Criterion Travel.
The British Airways Heritage Centre holds the archive of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, the forerunner to British Airways. Stick No Bills has been entrusted with a first-of-its-kind licence to remaster vintage artworks from this collection, including the 1/1 Master Editions of “Rancher” and “Viscount,” both unveiled at the Iconic Images Gallery in Piccadilly, London.
Braniff International Airways has also entrusted Stick No Bills with their remarkable creative legacy.
The Panagra Collection represents the first time these South American destination marketing posters have been remastered and revived for a contemporary audience.
The MAK Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna serves as custodian of the estate of Joseph Binder, one of the most important poster artists of the twentieth century. Binder’s 1939 New York World’s Fair poster remains one of the most recognised Art Deco images ever created. The Joseph Binder Collection was launched in 2026 under official licence from the MAK and the Binder estate.
We have also revived under license posters from renowned Barcelona fashion brand Santa Eulalia as well as the travel posters of Danish expedition artist Otto Nielsen, most famous for his works for SAS, Scandinavian Airlines.
Additional licensed collections include works from Lufthansa, Air Ceylon and Middle East Airlines.
Remastered and Revived
Licensing is the legal foundation. Remastering is the craft.
Many of the original artworks in our archive collections exist only as aging prints and fragile originals. Our professional remastering process involves painstaking, high-resolution digital scanning, careful colour correction and augmented-scale reproduction that reveals details invisible in the original format.
The finished Limited Edition prints are produced on Hahnemühle museum-quality, acid-free archival paper using sustainable, contemporary inks. The result is a 21st-century version of the original, with fresh and lasting colours that can now last for generations. Limited Editions are hand-numbered and, in the case of Rare and singular 1/1 Master Editions, embossed with 24-karat gold lettering by a master craftsperson.
Why This Matters
In an era of AI-generated imagery and mass-produced reproductions, the provenance and authenticity of a poster artwork carries real value. A licensed Stick No Bills print comes with a clear chain of attribution: the original artist, the archive or estate that holds the work, the licence that authorises reproduction, and the craftspeople who produced the print.
This is what distinguishes authorised poster art from the thousands of unlicensed reproductions available online. Every Stick No Bills poster artwork has a story, a licence and a purpose.
