Worldbuilding
Sarah Drinkwater and
Worldbuilding
Yatú: Head of Fiction is Norm. Head of Reality is me.
(USB club job titles the co-founders have themselves)
“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.”
-Brian Eno.
If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
To me, BRAT has been the ultimate demonstration of cultural world-building, Energy marketing, designing a product and a campaign with its most extreme consumer and fan in mind, and the most acute demonstration of how irl Authenticator moments drive url interaction and amplification.
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