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References named in the Agency editorials, grouped by category and linked to their source editions.
- Agency BrasilAgency Brasil is a global community of creatives and a bilingual research hub on creativity, marketing, and technology. Founded by Thiago Patriota, Agency operates as an editorial platform publishing long-form essays, interviews with creative professionals, and thematic series in Portuguese and English.
- AppleApple is the American technology company behind the Macintosh and the iPhone, and one of the best-known brands in the world. In the Agency editorial it is the example of how far a designer's ideas can go: the author tells the reader that their ideas could give birth to the next Apple.
- SentientSentient (Sentient LTDA) is the Brazilian creative and communications company founded by Thiago Patriota, the author of the Agency editorial. It works across design, branding, digital products and publishing, and in the editorial it is the name his client work goes by.
- Silicon Valley BankSilicon Valley Bank (SVB) was an American bank based in California that served technology startups and their investors. Its failure in March 2023 is the hook of the introduction that the Portuguese version of Issue.0 received with the translation: the author notes that it happened exactly seven days after this story, which uses a tsunami to frame a new solution, was published.