by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 20, 2018
WHAT I LEARNED FROM STAN LEE. AND OTHER UPSTART BRANDING LESSONS FROM STEVE JOBS AND THE WACHOWSKI SIBLINGS. Isn’t it so that, in any journey forward, you go back, to find the points where your heart first opened? And in any journey to know, you must go— out there,...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 12, 2018
THE DESIGN OF THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW. Isn’t it so that there’s a pattern? As a person that’s been writing strategy and designing for just short of a half century, I get around. See things. I see into things as a designer and a professional; and I see things as a...
by GIRVIN | Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 29, 2018
IN THE SCHOLARLY WALK-BACK IN DESIGN TIME, COULDN’T YOU LOOK INTO THE SCRIPTED CALLIGRAPHY OF A TIME OF CENTURIES BEFORE? YOU SHALL STUDY THAT WHICH EXHALED LIFE INTO THE WRITTEN NOTATIONS OF MARY STUART’S ASTONISHING LIFE. You could go back. To go forward, look back,...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 1, 2018
THE STRATEGY OF DESIGNING MOTION PICTURE BRANDING. THERE’S A PATTERN LANGUAGE, WHICH IS SENSUALLY INTERMINGLED. IT IS DESIGN, PLACE-MAKING, CHARACTERIZATIONS, CINEMATIC STYLE, SOUND DESIGN, MUSIC. ALL ARE PART OF THE TELLING. To that telling: how is it that the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Places, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2018
EXPLORING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND ENTERTAINMENT — HOW IS A STORY DESIGNED? Do you even know about this show? — [Image above from Netflix] You’re probably too young to even recall it, but when I was younger, “Danger, Danger, Will Robinson,” was one of my favorites lines....
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Apr 11, 2018
APPROACHES OF BRANDED STORYTELLING IN THE CONTEXT OF IDENTITY. Paramount Studios Most people know we have a long history in the study of design and identity for films it’s been a legacy of decades of work and participating in hundreds of projects. It started out,...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Oct 4, 2017
BLADERUNNER 2049 VISUALIZING *EXPERIENTIALITY: LOOKING FOR IRREGULARITY AND DISSOLUTION. In the world of humanity, the pattering of humankind, people jumbling, engaging in the places that people congregate, there is invariably messiness and chaos. In fractionalizing...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 27, 2017
BUILDING DESIGNED BRAND STORYTELLING IN THEATRICAL MARKETING | JOURNALING STRATEGIES AS DESIGN THINKING. I used to teach workshops called “Find Your Raven.” These were journal workshops built for people to explore writing, page composition, collaging life experience...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 16, 2017
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S NARRATIVE WEAVING IN DUNKIRK I saw Dunkirk the other night, and it was interesting to study — to watch and walk the design and the holism of its building: the place that it makes in mind, heart and sensation. The building of the design of the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Mar 31, 2017
CREATING AN ALPHABETIC CODE THAT BRIDGES THE DIGITAL WORLD OF THE MATRIX Most know about our history on The Matrix, it began with a call, 19 years ago. The agent from Warner Brothers offered that Joel Silver wanted me in his offices, the following morning, to talk to...
