by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 26, 2013
Drawing People [in] with Flowers, the Flow of Story in the Craft of Rendering Ideas In my beginnings, I drew flowers — and sold them as art pieces and gifts; then, at Christmas, I did groupings of flowers, silkscreened and signed in limited editions of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 22, 2013
The Search for Beauty — the Beauty of You, The Brand of You, and Others. In the quest for the truth of brands, the soul and heart of their storytelling — invariably, appropriately, there are humans involved. People make brands — mostly for other...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2013
While I was walking in the woods, the ancient layers told me their stories. [Image above by Justin Kern, altered by Dawn Clark, AIA, LEED AP] When I was young, in NY, my parents took me to the New York City Museum of Natural History [AMNS.] This was a whim reaching to...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 10, 2013
Exploring the heart and soul of brand, story and personality There’s a journey in getting to the heart of brand, and in a manner, it will be about finding the light that lies at the end of that voyage, or in the center of that conclave. I’m always looking...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling, Trends | Apr 8, 2013
Seeking the Wisdom of The Sage, the Leader of the Brand In any journey, you’ll go further if you go to the heart, the center, the fire of the leadership chamber — it is about the path to knowledge. When you work on, or inside, a brand, when you take a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Apr 5, 2013
Exploring brand culture, in a circumspect study I was talking to a client about getting into a place — “when you’re in, what do you see, what do you sense?” Being one that works in retail and restaurants, as an experience designer, I tend to...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 3, 2013
And the implications to brand, strategy and the target It’s been noted that, with the avid consumption and viewership of everything Jennifer Lawrence, the “Hunger Games” and Jeremy Renner’s rendering of “The Avengers” Hawkeye as a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Mar 29, 2013
Menu design as a core element of legend-making in crafting food & beverage experiences A friend sent these along to me, and I’m not sure where they came from, what collection. Apologetic for not defining their provenance. But it reminded me of another...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 27, 2013
The Scribing of Design Thinking The word scribe to script, as a verb, is a “scratching, a scribble, a marking.” Describe comes to mind, for in that scratching, definition and articulation of idea becomes manifest. It comes right back to the very nature of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 25, 2013
The Tiers of Brand Experience [Image above by Dawn A. Clark] In writing messages, related to brand and brand storytelling, like any legend-telling, the process of experience will be more than one strike and stroke on the tablet of messaging. It will be layers. There...
