Mike Meginnis's debut novel, Fat Man and Little Boy, joined Lydia Millet's 2005 Oh Pure and Radiant Heart as a creative reimagining of the U.S.'s use of the atomic bomb.
Or both, it has to be said: The Economist's chief executive Andrew Rashbass told a conference in April 2012 that Flipboard was "not a creative reimagining in some way – it's a head-on competitor", while suggesting that his own website team's decision to partner with it was "giving the opportunity to extract value to somebody else in an area that should be our own – so Flipboard is problematic".
While it might not be the complete reworking of the concept of the laptop, HP's design team has come up with a creative reimagining that delivers.
Adult Swim has leaned hard into the synthesis of art, music, technology and creative reimagining of 20th-century popular culture to build a loyal audience of highly-engaged young adults.
The "invisible" systems we depend on for our daily lives (in education, politics, economics, and public health) are designed every bit as much as the products we buy and the environments we inhabit and they are just as susceptible to creative reimagining.
From Kermit the Frog as Agent Dale Cooper -- which actually makes complete sense -- to Miss Piggy as dead homecoming queen Laura Palmer and Fozzie the Bear as the crazy Log Lady, the creative reimagining of Disney's wholesome puppets is borderline creepy.
Through analysis and creative reimagining of Sun Ra's personal writings, as well as in-depth looks at various texts the musician referenced in his work, Youngquist illustrates how Sun Ra formed his personal philosophy of Afrofuturism, which entails an optimistic, Afrocentric envisioning of a technologically superior future.
But, if psychoanalysis is a creative mode of reimagining, so, as the Church discovered, is religion, with its idea of salvation — history headed somewhere — as an antidote to the absurd cycle of mere mortality.
But the more ambitious and more successful mash-ups often involve either a creative and occasionally unrecognizable reimagining of one half of that equation (as Dangermouse did with the Beatles side of The Grey Album) or, perhaps even more ambitiously, of entire musical ideas from both sources, as Braun does here.
The focus of Project Re:Brief — as in rethinking a creative brief — was to reimagine for contemporary consumers four classic commercials and campaigns from the "Mad Men" era, for Alka-Seltzer, Avis, Coca-Cola and Volvo.
The conventional collection of inert artifacts can be vividly reimagined as a creative space of exchange.
