by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Trends | Dec 19, 2012
The immediate illustration of place and being. Finding the moment, in momentum Image above, an instant | Jakarta, Indonesia | Girvin I contemplate the instantaneous — and the drawing out of the drawn, the painted or scratched statement of the moment, closely...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Human brands | Dec 17, 2012
Richard Meier and Massimo Vignelli [above] video | Nowness When I was working in NYC, decades back, I’d linked to Richard Meier on the subject of typography and signing. The selected font of study, designed by another classical alphabet scholar and typographic...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Dec 14, 2012
Doing goodness. Surely, some do. Sometimes the celebration of goodness would seem the higher calling, in the flurry of the unrelenting challenges we face. Video, here. From our friends at PSFK: In the words of Fernando Semenzato, SVP of Content for FOX International...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Dec 12, 2012
12.12.12. The end of the world, as we thought about what we know about it. Meditations on Apocalypse I contemplate the nature of the end of things, 12.12, 12. 21, whatever — and what is that, to the notation of the end. Apocalypse, etymologically [like Calypso]...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Interior Design | Dec 12, 2012
Innovations in retail place-making strategies When I first heard about the idea of a new shipping container shop for Starbucks, I’d presumed that it might be the new modeling for the Evolution Fresh shop that was masterminded by Arthur Rubinfeld. But it’s...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 10, 2012
Branding innovation labs and their creations Over the course of the last several years, Girvin’s teams have been working in Richland, Washington with PNNL on evolving messaging and positioning strategies for one of the largest research and innovation...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Retail, Scent | Dec 7, 2012
Diptyque | Paris Perfumed Environments: The Design of the Fragranced Retail Experience To every product, there is a story, to every story, there is a telling — and in every telling, there is a person that offers that tale. In this sequence of blogs, the notations have...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling, Trends | Dec 5, 2012
story | message | visualizations [and the taste of things to come] Is the story, in experience design strategy — a segmented telling — each, to their own. What is the taste of the experiencer? I was working in NYC, and I was talking with a friend [client]...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 3, 2012
The crafted design of layered stories, the mischief [and surprise] of what is unseen, and hidden — and the obvious ploy to plotted attention: the art of intentional concealment, personal secrets [held and shared], storytelling explication and the unfolding of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Trends | Nov 30, 2012
The imagination of Vice Media The dream, documentation and commentary of what lives and breathes the other, darker side of the tracks. “National Geographic on crack,” is how one describes the Vice Media Network. Somebody sent me a note — daily...
