Innovation. Imagination. Envision.

What does it mean?

in short, it’s the journey I take from conceptualizing design to delivering it visually. i like to think it’s the true embodiment of manifestation. before you roll your eyes at me, let’s make one thing clear before I start. manifestation works. really, it does.

but just like everything else in life, it has its boundaries, which I think is where people begin to get lost in the idea of what manifestation actually is, and what it means to each individual. I felt like I had something to say about this, and maybe it might help you answer the most common question associated with the topic: why isn’t this working?

I have had a decent amount of experience manifesting. I was the girl on the bus who didn’t talk to anyone and sat in her seat alone, earbuds in, iPod 4 on shuffle, imagining the life that I associated with the song that just so happened to play. waiting by Alice bowman was one of my favorites to visualize an old film video camera capturing me in a field of flowers with a lover, who adorned me with compliments and taped the essence my beauty. two black Cadillacs by carrie underwood had me feeling like the baddest bitch on the planet: a leather jacket with a sledgehammer, shades and red lip stick while I power-walked into the funeral and stood side-by-side with carrie, as if I were the accomplice. even as long as you love me by Justin Bieber sent chills down my spine as i’d picture myself running throw the streets of New York at one a.m., trying to escape the drug dealers who are after my stoner boyfriend for owing them money… yeah. it sounds cringe as hell, and you might be thinking “Tosy, what the fuck, that’s not manifesting, why are you telling me all this?”

well, technically, you’re right. it’s not manifesting. but it is visualization. I often visualized distinct escapes in my mind, often because I didn’t like my reality very much. dreaming that I was being filmed by a lover in a field of flowers made me feel elated and let me escape from the reality that I was on a bus, with no friends to talk to, in a body that I felt uncomfortable in, and living a life that felt out of my control. my fantasies were my drug, and even though my intentions for these visualizations were not necessarily good, I had a lot of practice with visualizing what I wanted. which made manifesting just as easy, because when I got in bed at night, I would close my eyes and transport into visualizations of my future—which is manifesting!

Tosy Laine’s design tag: innovation, imagination, and envision seeks to use the wonderful world of the subconscious, enigmas, hallucinations, and dreams to visualize and conceptualize ideas into reality. As a certified dreamer, I know the core of design begins in the mind: the ultimate tool of creation.