by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 10, 2008
Designing The Pearl | Lincoln Square | Bellevue, WA Working with an extremely tight and confined team — I, along with others at Girvin | Seattle, as well as architect Dawn Clark, AIA LEED AP, and Robert Norwood, interior designer, began an extraordinary...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Oct 13, 2008
cold steel |raw materials in architecture I savor materials that are used in the rawest of fashion(ing). Places, building interiors, external details, fastenings and material applications. Large scale applications of raw industrial materials oftentimes reflect a kind...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Sep 28, 2008
Patterning in pattern: the woven, the thread, the cairn, the stone, the array: The psychic language of design, pattern, place and presence. A friend of mine, Susi Johnston, from Bali, introduced me to this group. Doon Susi — she’s a gallery owner there,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Sep 22, 2008
The BMW | Oracle Trimaran for the America’s Cup I’ve been a fan of BMW design for a long time. But I had a recent encounter that was breathtaking. I’ll get to that. The car of my beginnings was a 1972 2002. And what I savored about that car was...
by Tim Girvin | General | Sep 19, 2008
Exploring art in place: context, construct, concept — the brand marketing of Jeff Koons at Versailles. There’s been a far amount of energy being wrapped around the concept of Jeff Koon’s installation at Versailles. Of course, the idea is that the...
by Tim Girvin | General, Scent | Jul 24, 2008
Examining the line between design, fragrance and the mystery of making. There’s a mystery between the concept of design, creativity and the magic of concocting and sequencing outcomes, whether in the visualization of clothing, style, or in the mystery of...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Jul 23, 2008
I went to see what Christian Chabot, CEO of Tableau Software, has been thinking about. Someone in the blogosphere alluded to Tableau becoming the new Apple. What’s that? But rather, I believe that it is the attitude of Apple — that’s new. It’s...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General, Scent | Jul 19, 2008
Exploring brandstory, legacy and fragrance in a venerable enterprise of 700 years. I have been exploring Santa Maria Novella for about 10 years now. And largely the opening of my exposure has been Jon Bresler — and his group in NYC, Lafco. The opening...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Trends | Jun 27, 2008
Exploring the branding of hyper-caffeinated power drinks; what image is presented — what story found? Montages by R.Bird In the last 15 years, I’ve had plenty of experience exploring drinking in Asia. From Tokyo to Seoul, from Bangkok to Jakarta,...
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General | Jun 2, 2008
Exploring brand, story and legacy — what is the story and who cares about it? Who cares? I do! And millions of others. And most of the designers of significance: http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/au-revoir-yves-1560220/ Decades ago, working in my...
