by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jun 20, 2007
LIGHTS OUT LONDON! – June 21st (article link) Tomorrow, that is. Worth considering, the idea of a silent and lightless reflection. Personally, I’m one of those people that savors working by candlelight, or virtually no light — so the concept of an...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0 | Jun 8, 2007
What about personality, to brand, to trend, to direction? Every time I connect with a brand, there’s a person involved. Funny, isn’t that? I believe sometimes, that we forget about that. We think about the business proposition; there’s a personality,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Human brands | Jun 6, 2007
There are brands; and there are brands behind brands. The rippling of connections between brands and supporting brand relationships vibrate inwards and outwardly. When there’s a story connected to a brand; it’s part of the legacy, there are connections...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Trends | May 30, 2007
There’s one thing to a pen, drawing, there’s another to a pen, writing. And being a longer term practioner who plays in both spaces — the drawing and the writing, it will be interesting to see, yet again, if this concept takes hold. Yes, me —...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | May 28, 2007
Randall Stross… Greetings! Nice, your work: Sunday | NYTimes | Bright ideas! | Digital Domain 5.27.07 (Randall Stross) I found your observations on Apple Store, as carefully and clinically precise in their analyses as they could hope to be, I suppose, to be...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Places | May 17, 2007
Yesterday, I went to the open house of the architectural design group NBBJ. The point of the practice, rather uniquely — I might offer, is about collaboration and the celebration of ideas. Many practices are of course about doing the fundamental work of defining...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General | May 11, 2007
There’s an inherently classical discipline to the luminous experiments and exploration that James Carpenter’s work seems to embody. He’s an architect — of light, and the incipient interplay of space. It’s all about the nature of light,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | May 7, 2007
Working with a master. Sometime, ranging a year or more back, I’d worked with Paul Bertolli. And a friend — Stephen Darland. Stephen was the one that introduced me; and he and Paul needed help in defining, creating a brand that evolved around the concept...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Apr 20, 2007
I still love to draw these: Finials — the finishing stroke on a letterform. Here’s one: f Even yesterday. One, long, calligraphic finial — standing there, alone: b —- finial (FIN-ee-ehl, FI-nee-) noun 1. An ornamental object on top of an...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Apr 16, 2007
I believe in this, to the action of staying creative: The real presumption is that you are creative in the first place. Sometimes people who run creative enterprises are, in fact, great at running organizations, but less so to the challenges of creative activations....
