World Illustrated - My World app for iPhone and iPad

Our aim is to be Your Window to the World. We combine the best features of Wikipedia, Pinterest, Instagram with merchandising & licensing capabilities. In “My World”, you can See, Share and Shop.

We lead with professionally sourced and curated imagery which offers a broader, more interesting and dynamic perspective of the world - whatever your interests. We have a growing pool of hundreds of millions of professional images, videos, and articles which you can use for inspiration, enjoyment, merchandising and licensing.

In your “My World” account you can

• Use our social media tools to create your own “My World” where you can interact with friends and family

• Follow our professional, curated content to suit your specific interest or hobby

• Publish your own content for everyone to view and buy
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• License professional and user generated content for either business or private use

• Buy merchandise printed with your favourite images from the site or the app

world illustrated is for you and by you.

Why we created world illustrated and “My World”

In today’s world, we are overwhelmed by on-line media and apps, yet we’re addicted.
Frustratingly, we often cannot find high quality content that satisfies our interests or needs or gives us inspiration, perhaps for a project. Nor do we have the integrated tools which could help make our online experience better. It can be time consuming and disappointing.
So, what to do about it?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could browse professional content on your favourite subject for free?

Have it delivered to your social media account where you can chat and share with friends and family.

Where you can buy prints, videos or audio files.

Click relevant shopping links.

Where you can even offer your own content for sale if you think that you have the creative talent, armed with our smartphones, many of us now fancy ourselves as quite the photographer.

We thought that the solution was staring us in the face.

We own a photo agency with tens of millions of wonderful and often unseen images. We supply the media, who due to budget constraints or editorial policy, only show a few of them to you. Now we are opening our archives and organizing these millions of images, videos, sound files and articles expensively produced by leading, international agencies, museums, and cultural institutions, by topic and delivering them to you in a multi-functional social media network.

That is what world illustrated and “My World” is. Your Window to the World where you can See, Share and Shop.

How we organize our content

We curate the professional content into hundreds of sub-channels and thousands of content threads which tell a detailed story of a specific topic.

For example, if you’re interested in architecture, you can explore the architecture sub-channels which can be found in the Design channel. Each of these sub-channels is dedicated to a particular style of architecture, and then you can explore the threads relating to that sub-channel which show detailed examples of that style. The same logic applies to all channels. Sport, football, Man United. Music, Rock music, The Rolling Stones.

In your “My World” account you can choose the content that you want to have delivered in to your feed.

Also we have the method for filtering objectionable content, a mechanism for users to block abusive users and admin can take action anytime for these contents or users.

There are delete option for users that they can delete their own account and it is a soft delete of their account. If any user needs to permanently delete their account they can soft delete their account and then can ask admin to permanently delete their account.

See, Share and Shop.

world illustrated is Your Window to the World.