We are gathered around a small conference table in the shared art space known as 300 Summer Street in Boston. The uncorrupted concrete floor stretches out over a studio space enclosed by three concrete walls and a glass partition. Besides the four present and dedicated members of Glimpse, the other tenants include a PR firm and a realtor. The trappings of these trades are spread across any available surface. These are the humble beginnings of a new journal that promises to bridge science, art and society through the unique perspective of vision.

Megan Hurst, the founder and editor of Glimpse, believes that “innovation and advancement of thought come from cross-pollination —the application of patterns of thinking and insights from one field to another.” Using this premise, she harnesses her broad interests and skills to create a journal centered on the idea that what we observe and learn through our sense of sight is beautifully complex. She and her small staff of talented (and volunteer) writers, artists and scientists draw on the lessons of how different individuals and societies view and interpret symbols, colors and shapes. Add to this the burgeoning insights of neuroscience, psychology and astronomy and the makings of a multidisciplinary journal spring to life.

Each issue is divided into segments that compliment the varied interests of founder and contributors alike. Time, personal experience, the arts, and social and physical sciences all have their place. Seeming disparate disciplines are tied together by a theme for each issue such as written language or political symbols. Future planned issues will explore the many facets of cosmos and color.

But what was the motivation to invest so much personal time and treasure into a new publication at a moment when publishers are perishing left and right? Says Ms. Hurst: “I wanted to read something like Glimpse…and I couldn’t find it. I could find nuggets of it, but scattered here and there – never in one publication.” The goal of any multidisciplinary journal is to gather these bits and pieces and organize them in a way that drives innovation and thought. Glimpse Journal is already accomplishing this feat.

And what about going forward into the future? At first it would seem that this journal could eventually run short on topics to cover. But think about that for a moment. What in our lives cannot be related to our sense of sight? Ms. Hurst, in what I am coming to understand as characteristic passion, argues that this journal will continue to “serve a different knowledge development function than traditionally specialized publications.” There will always be thoughtful, talented individuals that want to find a new perspective on the things that drive them. Perhaps many of them, like Ms. Hurst, will want to read something like Glimpse.