MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Imagine Studio, the creative and strategic services organization within The Imagine Group, today announced an expansion of its talent and integrated capabilities. The expanded team strengthens Imagine Studio’s ability to guide brands from strategy and creative development through environmental design, production, and nationwide execution. Clients across convenience retail, quick-service restaurants, grocery, retail, consumer packaged goods, and entertainment can access these services through one connected team.
“Brands today are searching for partners who can connect insight, creativity, and execution without the friction of managing multiple agencies and vendors,” said Andy House, Vice President, Studio Agency. “Our investment in specialized talent helps clients move from strategy and design through production and activation with greater speed, consistency, and impact.”
Expanded Environmental, Architectural, and Décor Expertise
A key area of growth is Imagine Studio’s environmental and architectural design expertise. The team supports store remodels, reinvestment programs, branded environments, décor packages, architectural documentation, visualization, wayfinding, custom fabrication, rollout logistics, and installation. These capabilities help convenience store and restaurant brands modernize physical environments, respond to changing customer expectations, and create more cohesive experiences.
By connecting insight-driven strategy and creative excellence with Imagine’s production and activation platform, Imagine Studio helps brands manage complex customer journeys and scale programs from concept to execution. This integrated approach reduces handoffs while improving speed and consistency across locations.
Imagine Studio’s growth includes expanded expertise in entertainment marketing, motion design, graphic design, experiential activation, and large-scale campaign development.
“As our organization continues to operate as a connected creative enterprise, clients benefit from deeper collaboration across brand strategy, experience design, engineering, production, and marketing,” said Don McKenzie, CEO of The Imagine Group. “This integration creates a broader creative ecosystem equipped to support branded environments, entertainment activations, experiential events, and nationwide campaigns.”
Today, Imagine Studio brings together nearly 100 professionals across strategy, creative, environmental and architectural design, engineering, visualization, sourcing, marketing, and project execution. Working closely with Imagine’s production, technology, fabrication, and fulfillment teams, the organization provides a unified experience from ideation through activation.
About Imagine
Imagine is an industry-leading provider of visual communications solutions. As a trusted partner to the world’s most successful retailers & brands, Imagine designs, produces, and delivers beautifully crafted print and digital solutions that inspire action and get results. From concept to consumer, our end-to-end solutions include creative design, pre-media, décor, commercial print, store signage, specialty packaging, out-of-home, fulfillment & kitting. With a customer technology stack powered by Dotti, a single, flexible platform designed to manage even the most complex in-store marketing programs, and a collection of talented designers and innovators in Imagine Studio, all backed with powerhouse print and digital production capabilities, Imagine has the solution. Learn more at theimaginegroup.com.
Media Contact: Carrie Hoffert Director of Marketing, The Imagine Group choffert@theimaginegroup.com
