IMAGINE is a digital magazine celebrating the art and culture of the human imagination.

Launched on the first-annual Imagination Day on October 9, 2021, in honor of John Lennon’s 81st birthday and the 50th anniversary of his song, Imagine, IMAGINE brings together many of the world’s most imaginative people to speak on the power and importance of the creative imagination.

As a manifesto and Declaration of Imagination, IMAGINE is a call to imagine and re-imagine the role that imagination can play in creating a better world and enhancing the quality of our lives.

What is imagination to you? What does it mean to imagine? Why is imagination important? How are you applying imagination in your life and work? How does imagination help us become better people and live better lives? IMAGINE collects and presents inspiring answers to these questions and more from today’s global thought leaders.

Submissions have poured in from visionaries across many fields, ranging from scholars of the imagination, creativity, and the arts, to philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, mythologists, and astrophysicists, to cultural policy experts, science authors, and science fiction writers, to creative artists, social entrepreneurs, museum designers, Disney executives, and Grammy®-winning musicians.

Contributors come from all cultures, nationalities, and countries, such as America, Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, India, Malaysia, Australia, Argentina, Russia, and beyond.

Altogether, this group represents some of the most influential and biggest names in the world of creativity and imagination. The total scope and impact are astounding and a testament that in today’s world we need imagination more than ever.

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Karim Rashid

Imagination Shapes the Future

My inspiration is to beautify the world and shape the future. I believe that design is extremely consequential to our daily lives and can positively change the behaviors of humans. Products and furniture must deal with our emotional ground thereby increasing the popular imagination and experience. Originality is becoming more had more difficult since the digital age is affording so much imagery that it’s harder and harder to find a personal individual authentic expression. I suggest finding ideas based on human behavior, better to read a book and imagine than to look at images. We are all original with unique fingerprints and DNA. So, if we are original then we are all capable of contributing originality to this world.

Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation with over 4000 designs in production, over 400 awards, and operating in over 35 countries. Described by Time magazine as the “most famous industrial designer in all the Americas”, his designs span luxury goods, furniture, lighting, surface design, brand identity and packaging and include democratic objects like the ubiquitous Garbo waste can and Oh! Chair for Umbra and interiors like the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia, and Nhow hotel, Berlin.

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