Sustenance, biomimicry and design

I had written to Eartha Kitt about her love of nests — and my fascination of nests and their building — hornets and wasps in particular. https://tim.girvin.com/?p=328 Interestingly, she wrote back. And my Mother had offered another note about the concept...

Scent

Scent is the most powerful of the five senses. How can companies use scent to attract customers? How can it be used as a marketing tool? It’s important to think of scent as a kind of layering of experience. For example, scent alone won’t instantly...

Understanding international presentations

Examples of what your international meetings involve: Global encounters that I’ve been involved in usually relate to complex presentations involving design — and different kinds of design: identity, packaging, brand strategy, retail design and...

Notes to a student

I believe that the story is the way that people connect with each other. I tell you a story about me, you learn something — there’s a possible magnetic link between us; we’ve made some opening range of a connection. And from there…what, where...

TypeCon 2007

When someone gets something — understands a message, how is it gathered, how is it understood? The lay of the alphabet, the geometries therein, speak to the message of the mind, laid bare, in the character of the black on the white, the message — missive...

What is the question?

You. The question? What mystery found, what box unopened — what, unanswerable issues — what comes forth, now found, newly discovered? What are you looking for, what is there to be ? What is that? I’ve been thinking about this a lot this weekend. What...