by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Jun 25, 2013
Designing storytelling, in brand experience and place-journey-making. Earlier in my career, I was studying the concept of signage design in the setting of Imperial Roman culture. From the 500 — 1500 years, BCE, to roughly 400 ACE the idea of cutting important...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 18, 2013
Research, Storytelling, Brand — Science, Strategy and Artfulness In working on a string of projects, to brand, research and background, audience review, positioning strategy. And, in some instances, the idea is a kind of an engineered review —...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 13, 2013
THE DELICACY OF SOUND, VOICING THE STORY, AN UNKNOWN TELLING — PURE SOUND. The most powerful point of sensuality, will be about love, and the intimacy of connection — the closer you are to feeling, the more intimate the power of that sharing. I was...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 4, 2013
The Stroke of the Idea, in Sound, Found. When I was in Seoul, looking at, and working on Korean retail design, I stopped and watched a street calligrapher, who was writing phrases on newspaper. In the midst of the noise and flurry of the streetscape, I stood and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | May 28, 2013
The Spirits in An Environment I was walking in a place and I realized, for a moment, that I was alone. But there was something there, studying the sensation of environment. It had to do with the holism of the sensations — light, warmth, breeze, the former...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 13, 2013
The Whorl of Making and Imagination Sometimes when I’m thinking about a challenge, working my way throughout a complex puzzle — I draw my self into it, and out of it. Above, my little finger on an iPhone. Below, the dinner table and a team meeting,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | May 10, 2013
Studying the Eye, In sight and the Touch of Seeing The Rhythm of Insight, Seeing-In — 1000 Eyes — the brushstrokes of Storytelling, the Rippling of Imagination I was looking into the eyes of a dragonfly that I’d arranged on a mapping, a cartographic...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 6, 2013
AND THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL, IN THE SPATTERING OF INSPIRATION. When I was in college, I taught workshops to help my payment of the tuition, along with support from my family. I used variously colored butcher paper to do that — pulled, ripped out and sheared on a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | May 1, 2013
The Storytelling of Place, in the Minds of the Experiencer I just told this story recently. I was working with a colleague, in Florida — our client, her boss, was Michael Eisner. He had a dream about a Disney place that would be a kind of learning experience...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 29, 2013
Hand-ground pigment, split timbers, scent and the explosive splatter of haboku. When I draw, my senses are open, the touch of the paper, the splintering of the wood, the sound — the gasp, the clasp, the rasp of the stroke of the brush on the stock. We worked on...
