by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | May 15, 2014
Cinematic innovations Launched at Seattle’s Cinerama Reaching back, we worked for Doug Trumbull on Brainstorm. Like any theatrical advertising effort, you’ve got to know the story, and the tenets of its production design and technical strategy, to create...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 11, 2014
The Mothering of The Mother In my journey, I’ve studied the creative molding process as a man driven and bidden by the magicspell of making. In college, the 70s, I read Erich Neumann’s monumental undertaking “The Great Mother” which was...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Scent | Apr 17, 2014
THE LAYERING OF EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF THE TRANS-SENSATIONAL EXPERIENCE: LAYERING STORY, TASTE, TOUCH, SCENT AND THE HEARING OF THE WHOLE BEING. WORKING in Oregon, I met with a taste innovation strategist — a woman who, along with my team, as well as...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Apr 15, 2014
Brandspirit and the building of spiritual and mystical brands What is the shadow brand, and what is the brand of light? For a long time, it’s been said — “you can’t use that word ‘spiritual’ around business people, it will scare...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Apr 10, 2014
Designing the Alphabet of the Film, “The Matrix.” The metaphors of threading, rain, flow and the loom of meaning in context Working with Warner Brothers, Joel Silver and the Wachowski siblings on “The Matrix” was a highlight in a string of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places | Mar 4, 2014
Conceiving Story in the Procession of Imagination: the Labyrinthine Mind of Orhan Pamuk The journey in is the journey out, a spiral of movement and emotion — “I turn in, follow, I turn out:” that journey continues. I was in Istanbul for a retail...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Feb 17, 2014
2011, photograph by ©Steve Henke The Agent, An Axiom of Ayurvedic Principles, the Founder of Aveda, Intelligent Nutrients, Moves On. Remarkable people have a weaver-like mingling of a tapestried storytelling that frames out the threading of their lives — they...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers | Feb 6, 2014
I want to trust you, but should I? Do you trust me? Do I trust myself, my instincts — what’s true? Pondering trust and inspiration, I was thinking about Rei Kawakubo, foundress of Comme des Garçons, a hands-on woman entrepreneur, designer and innovator...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers | Jan 30, 2014
The Stroke of The Hand, Like Touch, Says It Real. Best From The heart. Touch me. Touch you. Hello & Good bye from me. When it’s time to say goodbye, it is, truly — “parting is such sweet sorrow.” And, the expression of sorrow isn’t...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Trends | Dec 10, 2013
The Complications of Content I was talking to a friend about cabling, chargers and hardware. Often, when I’m traveling, I’m roving. Moving from place to place. Others, happily desk bound, working in situ, they’re sending me texts: “please call...
