New characters built from your artwork. Matched fleets for a national rollout. Rebuilds when the last supplier got it wrong.
Repairs, including on suits we did not make. Reorders from your archived pattern. Character design. Delivery to any city.
A mascot workshop in Karachi. We have been building brand characters by hand since 1994, mostly for companies that cannot afford to get it wrong. Every stage happens under one roof, in one family’s hands. That is why a date we give you holds.
Commitment
Production
- Capacity
- 200+ units a year
- Build time
- 2-3 weeks
- Delivery
- Nationwide
Terms
- Payment
- 50% advance, 50% on delivery
- Patterns
- Kept permanently, so a reorder costs less
Nobody remembers what you saved on the quote. They remember the date that had to move, the meeting where you explained it, and the fortnight you did not have.
Ours go in front of the toughest brand teams in the country and they come back signed off. After 32 years, that is the part we sell.
Nothing about the finished suit should surprise you.
Design and approval
We work from your artwork and your guideline, or we draw the character with you. Either way you sign off a build-ready design before a single panel is cut: proportions, colours, materials, how it is put together.
A character that works on screen often fails on a body.
Proportions nobody can pad out. A face that loses its sightline. Detail that disappears at ten metres. We design against all three from the first sketch.
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JZ is Javed Zahid, the man who brought mascot-making to this country. Before there was a trade here, there was one workshop. It was his.
The family
One family, one roof, and 32 years of building by hand.
1994 Year
of Foundation
The first mascot workshop in Pakistan. Everything else in this trade came after it.
Founded by Javed Zahid, who worked the whole thing out himself because there was nobody in the country to learn it from.
32
Years at the bench
200+
Units a year we can take
2
Generations of one family
2-3
Weeks to build
The house rules
- 01
Nothing leaves without being worn
Vision, airflow, range of movement, endurance. A suit somebody cannot last a full activation in is not finished, whatever it looks like sitting on a table.
- 02
Nothing is subcontracted
Every stage happens under this roof, in the same family’s hands. It is the only reason we can hold a date we have given you.
- 03
The design is signed off before anything is cut
Proportions, colours, materials, construction. Nothing about the finished suit should be a surprise to anyone.
- 04
Materials are chosen for the life of the suit
Not for the price of the quote. A cheap choice never shows on delivery day. It shows three months later, in front of your audience.
- 05
Every pattern is kept for good
Your character is drafted once. The replacement, the spare, or the same suit in another city is cut from that original pattern. Faster, cheaper, identical.
- 06
A fleet is matched, not approximated
Same pattern, same materials, same hands. The mascot in Lahore has to photograph like the mascot in Karachi.
- 07
We repair what we did not build
Re-furring, foam replacement, seam repair, ventilation retrofits. Most mascots are retired years early for damage that was always fixable.
- 08
We say no to dates we cannot hold
You get a real answer on feasibility before you commit, which is worth a great deal more than an optimistic yes.
The country’s largest brands have been through this workshop.
Clients have included
Through activation agencies, brand offices and event houses, across 32 years of production in Karachi.
Send the character, the date and how many units. If the date cannot be done, you will hear that on the first reply, before you build a plan around us.
- Workshop
- R-248, Near Mustafa Mosque, Shadman Town 14-A
- City
- Karachi, Pakistan
- hello@jzarts.co