Our icon is a medieval sun, redrawn from the Flammarion engraving, an anonymous wood engraving first published in 1888. That original work portrayed a traveller reaching the ends of the earth, and poking his head through to new realms of imagined futures.
The sun conveys the core of what we do. Night and day. Earthly and cosmic. We create worlds, and worlds revolve around the sun.
THE WORLD OF presents an ongoing series of sensory interviews with creatives in the agency’s orbit, alongside various of its own inspirations.
To celebrate the launch of THE WORLD OF (formally known as Kat&Co) and mark a new era for the studio––which has been crafting disruptive, highly...
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The Tehran-born, New York-based scent designer Anahita Mekanik conducts her interview with THE WORLD OF from inside a department store. Mekanik,...
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In the mid 2000s, music duo The Bumblebeez—comprising siblings Christopher Colonna and Pia Colonna (AKA Queen ViLa)—catapulted themselves onto...
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The artist and creative director Hattie Molloy—who lives and works in Melbourne—erects strange, kaleidoscopic tableaus from plants, freezing them...
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“For my whole adult life,” says Jen Monroe, “taste has felt like an enormous force that dictates so much about the way the creative world works:...
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Before Jenna Lee’s mother became an educator, she worked at a Japanese paper store—“so I grew up knowing about paper, how it works and how to...
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“I have this desire,” says the 3D artist Quinn Carmichael, “to merge my practice with the physical world and explore sensory experiences.” In his...
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Sean Brady is a makeup artist who conjures surreal apparitions and fearless, experimental studies in colour. Under his hand, eyes and brows morph...
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When Amy Seo and Shahar Cohen founded Second Edition with Bill Clifton—a director of Robert Plumb Collective—they’d just wrapped their Masters of...
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“If the dancer dances—which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance or remembering in his body...
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The zoomorphic sculptures of artist Troy Emery trade in absence, abundance and distortion. Take Grampians big cat (2022), a candy-pink creature...
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