by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places | Sep 17, 2012
Patterning brand & brand patterning – – developing typologies, morphologies of brand experiences | Graffiti Café, Varna, Bulgaria The nature of experiences, pattern language, visualizing layers of patterned context in place, message and ideology....
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places | Sep 11, 2012
Brand, story, patterning in placemaking design strategies in hospitality and destinations IF THERE’S A STORY TO BE TOLD, COULD THAT STORY BE A PAINTING? THE GRAPHICAL PAINTING OF EMOTION, PATTERNING IN PLACE — designing the destiny of destinations. What is...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Retail | Sep 7, 2012
These days, the idea of an anniversary is the search for legacy — and there are many that are searching for legacies, threads, reaching back to the soul of earlier years, when another degree of artfulness, more robust storytelling, a new flavoring of history...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Sep 6, 2012
Amazon retail, a theory [Girvin]– bricks and mortar? Brand, retail, retelling, retooling, rethinking. Retail and community, brand storytelling as a reflective sharing — the story of place, of culture, of wonder, embracement and connectivity. There is a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Aug 31, 2012
Sometimes, simple is best. Messaging, stories told in the language of your community, and tuning the nature of clarity. There is a bridge between the patterning of one’s personal character, “your brand attributes” — how you, as a person,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail, Storytelling | Aug 29, 2012
SHELF EPIPHANY, RETAIL DESIGN, BRAND STORYTELLING AND SHINING ––––––––––––– I was talking to a client about the concept of the shine. Walking the street, I spied this installation — a shine brush in a window. And it urged a meditation on the allegory of shining....
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Interior Design, Places | Aug 27, 2012
Graphical thinking in the Visioning of Spatial Ideas and Place-making In the beginning for me, it was Peter Saville, London, that changed my point of view about the power of a graphical treatment to fully render ideas. Hear Peter, here. WIELDING AND SPEAKING A BROAD...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Aug 20, 2012
Rethinking rethinking — and the cycle of innovation — finding wowness. What is life but a string of refreshments — a discovering: a way of seeing, momentarily — a challenge, a cast-out idea, a gesture to newness, wowness as the surprised state...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts | Aug 16, 2012
The Rubin Museum | NYC | Geometric patterning of a Bodhisattva print GIRVIN | the digital assembly of 108 paintings of divinity — the mala, the spiritual thread of prayer. Below is a photograph of the 16×20″ poster of nearly all the paintings of the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Human brands | Aug 14, 2012
The last days of the Olympics | London 2012 The gift of the games, “the Soul of the Olympics.” When you think about it, hasn’t the Olympics, London 2012 been about the unbridled power, the spirit of the people who came: phenomenal? From small story...
