by Tim Girvin | Designers, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Mar 1, 2009
The line between the story, the visualization, the brand. Story — told. Story — visualized. There’s a thread that runs between the original telling, and the next telling in story — and the next, and the next, and the next. One person tells a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Motion Pictures, Retail, Storytelling | Jan 16, 2009
Exploring the ideation of identity in theatrical advertising What is it about dogs? How is it, after thousands of years, we have this undeniable link with dogs? We immediately attach personality to them. We see something in dogs? And we see, perhaps, something of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Dec 26, 2008
Motion picture design, identity and historical context: visual propaganda. I first met Mr. Cruise, working with him, and the Paramount Studio marketing leadership team — with Jerry Bruckheimer — for Top Gun. Then, after that, Days of Thunder, working more...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 2, 2008
Martha Holmes | Jackson Pollock Time©1949 Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers: exploring concepts of the visual language of creativity, music, madness — and the warmth of humanity in redemption. “Madness is the salt that keeps good sense from rotting.”...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Places, Storytelling | Sep 18, 2008
Exploring the illusory: branding ghosts and the veil of what is beyond… I’d been fascinated by the concept of the ghost – and the ghostly – for decades, since I was a kid. The magical, the mystical, the mysterious. Actually, my first big book purchase,...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Sep 1, 2008
Several years ago I got a call from Paramount Studios to work on a project for JJ Abrams. I’d never heard of him, embarrassingly enough. Nancy Goliger, EVP of Advertising, told me to check out his TV shows, “Lost” and “Alias”. I watched...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Trends | Jul 21, 2008
Exploring brand in the context of experience design and impression: movie picture brand strategy. I’ve liked Christian Bale’s impression of Bruce Wayne since the beginning; but I’m anticipating that Christopher Nolan drives a great deal of the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures | May 13, 2008
Exploring brand in context — from the comical imagination to the full screen. Storyboarding: There’s been a lot of discussion about the movement in legacy from comical development to full screen adaptation. There are some symbolic moves in that grouping of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Motion Pictures | Dec 12, 2007
As a developer of campaign theming, in direct marketing development, ranging from department stores to retail products, theatrical marketing to entertainment design, the soul of the direct marketing story can lie in the very heart of the conceptual visualization...
by Tim Girvin | Designers, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 22, 2007
What did influence me? Practice for one, looking for another. I look, I find. I research, I uncover. I dig, I excavate. When I was in college, I did this one section, this one grouping of studies of the history of the letterform. What is that, anyway? Palaeography....
