Unless you’ve been living under a slime green rock for the past six months, you’ll probably be familiar with the album campaign-turned-cultural phenomenon that is Brat. Released in June, Charli XCX’s sixth studio album not only defined the visual culture of the summer (a welcome antidote to 2023’s Barbiecore) but also captured the zeitgeist of a chronically online generation plagued by existential crises. As the artist put it herself, a brat is “that girl who is a little messy and likes to party, and maybe does dumb things sometimes, who feels herself but then also maybe has a breakdown”.

Obsessively memed, emulated and intellectualised in LinkedIn threads and op eds, Brat summer has also transcended virality and crossed over into mainstream culture, with everyone from plant-based meat brand Field Roast to Vice President Kamala Harris embracing its sentiment. For Charli, it’s led to no less than seven Grammy nominations, including one for its neon-green artwork by design studio Special Offer, while ‘brat’ has officially taken its place in the history books as Collins dictionary’s word of the year.

“I’ve always felt like there’s something very special and unique about what Charli’s doing, and when I heard the album I was thrilled that it went as hard as it did,” says one of the artist’s regular collaborators, Jonny Kingsbury. A self-taught lighting and production designer, he currently works as part of Cour Design, a Nashville-based collective of designers and creative producers specialising in live entertainment for the likes of Caroline Polacheck and Tate Mcrae.