by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Storytelling | Feb 6, 2023
L I S T E N T O T H E L I N K S I was talking to a client about music [brand experientiality]—the magnetic nature of the melodic narrative and, intimately, the human attribute of the swing of musical cadence, the ebullience of its expression in the context of human...
by GirvinIT | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Human brands | Dec 16, 2022
Here’s to a season’s celebration of uplift, joy and thanksgiving. Happy Holidays from the GIRVIN team! Download your own 8.5″x11″ PDF of the artwork....
by Kevin Henderson | Artists, Cool People, Designers | Dec 13, 2022
Are you looking to shake up your traditions and try something a little more footloose? Try a new twist on a familiar favorite this season: chocolate chip cookies with bacon! This is Senior Designer Kevin’s favorite recipe—it was a big hit at the office holiday party,...
by GirvinIT | Artists, Cool People | Dec 7, 2022
Enjoy this free downloadable Blackletter exemplar! Start by printing out the download, then we suggest using some tracing paper and a calligraphy pen (recommended 3.8 – 4.5 mm) to get started. Download 11×17...
by GirvinIT | Cool People, Designers, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Aug 18, 2022
IN THE HISTORY OF A PRACTICE THAT HAS OPERATED CONTINUOUSLY FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS—SINCE OUR FOUNDING IN 1976—THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A LOT OF DIFFERENT STUDIOS, RIGHT? YES, MANY. AND MANY MOVES. That comes out to the following sequence, setting workplaces @ The Evergreen...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Jun 22, 2022
THE STRIKE OF THE TWIN LIGHTNING BOLTS THE EVIDENCE OF LEGACY | TOM CRUISE AND TOP GUN Titling Design Trailer In my history as a designer of theatrical branding, I’d already been on the run for about 10 years [since Apocalypse Now] of working on motion picture and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Apr 27, 2022
Obviously, the question of beauty doesn’t propound solely a complicated design— instead, it could be profoundly simple—so delicately balanced and restrained that it catalyzes disciplined elegance. But when one calculates the etymology—in reverse—of beautiful graphics,...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Cool People, Interior Design, Scent | Mar 10, 2022
Designing for perfume—the detailing of scent-related *experientiality: D I P T Y P Q U E. When I see things, invariably I smell them. When I touch things, I hear them. It’s a trait of curiosity—it’s one thing to see things, it’s another to touch them, still another to...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Interior Design, Luxury, Places, Retail | Feb 7, 2022
HERITAGE BRAND DESIGN AND SYSTEMIC PATTERNING More than four and a half decades ago, 1976, I pitched the idea of integrative branding to the Creative Director at Nordstrom, Dan Holland, and I presented again—this same thematic strategy, later to Claudia Milne, then...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Places, Storytelling | Jan 28, 2022
WORKING IMAGINATION | THE IMAGINEERS AT DISNEYLAND In my history as a design leader, we worked around various propositions of entertainment at Disney—not only working on films, but Disneyland itself, in a string of calls from the Imagineering teams at Disney,...