by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Trends | Jun 21, 2009
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Warmth, affection, connection, community: physical social networks and emerging branding trends. It’s been suggested that the phenomenon of teenagers hugging has something to do with Michelle Obama. She hugs everyone....
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jun 14, 2009
(Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams) Jessica B. Lifland | USA TODAY Who stays, who goes? I can’t push too hard on the proposition that I have anything truly ground breaking, in the context of twitterology, the new science of micro-blogging....
by Tim Girvin | General | Jun 13, 2009
Images credit The geography of the mind, mapped in place In a way, any drawing that we create, is a kind of signature. Designing is demarcation. And the origin of the alphabet, stretching back 3,500 to 4,000 years ago, to the proto-sinaitic beginnings is, in fact, a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Jun 8, 2009
What brands face, in Facebook? Many, if their culture is robust enough… In the metaphor of communing, there are layers — circles — of connections that we have with each other and our friends. A drop, ripples. Stories are told — they are shared,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0 | Jun 7, 2009
Thoughts on bing, the new search engine for Microsoft Just days ago, the kick off. According to the overview from Microsoft, “the idea behind ‘Manifesto’ is to elicit an emotional response about a concept that is decidedly not emotional.” And...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, General | Jun 6, 2009
Photograph Peter Haley ©2009 The creation of sound, in place, made Decades ago, I was both a student, then instructor at Fort Worden. There were some amazing encounters — George Tsutakawa, Karen Guzak, Mary Ann Peters, Barbara Schwartz, Elaine DeKooning, Sam...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jun 2, 2009
Why does Tim Girvin love crows and ravens? Some people have equated the raven as being something inextricably linked to me — my personal brand. That is, when people see something on the raven, or the crow, they presume that I know about it, or should. And they...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jun 1, 2009
Fire, the long river and the mist in the motion in learning Some time back, I was speaking (and working with) with a writer — Kurt Dahl, a IT manager and strategist then for Nordstrom, about the idea of the future of the book. He didn’t really believe in...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General | May 29, 2009
Ricardo L. Castro, 2005. Courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery A passage — the journey built — the life’s journal in design I met Arthur here, at Robson Square, decades ago, in a building of his design, while I was speaking on design, to a group of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | May 26, 2009
Jorge Colombo | cover illustration, the New Yorker, June 2009 Starting at the beginning, the mouse, the magic, the drawn and the digital. Of course, really, it all starts here, in drawing — the touch of the fingers, with insight, interpretation and meditation....
