The Collective - Glimpse Glimpse

In our early days, Glimpse worked as an open collective for people who want to use their skills for good.

We met in the top room of pubs and wrote our own creative briefs with no client, no brand guidelines and no budget.

This was the source of some of our best ideas including CATS, Choose Love and the People’s Podium.

We moved away from the volunteer element over the years, but these early ‘hacks’ still feel like the soul of Glimpse.

At the core of our work was a belief in the power of imagination to help us see past the existing reality.

So rather than trying to fix a problem, all of our briefs start with the phrase ‘imagine a world where…’ and take it from there.

Here’s an example brief on consumerism, from our very first hack day.

Glimpse always stood for the potential of creativity for good.

We knew that most creative people want to make a positive difference in the world, but don’t know where to start.

Our collective model proved hard to fund and difficult to manage, but we believe there is so much potential for distributed, purposeful creativity.

We hope that Glimpse inspired others to find their calling, and will continue to do so.

Glimpse was a global collective that was supported by a core team of producers, strategists and facilitators.