by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Retail | Mar 30, 2010
Image © Warner Brothers Cinematic brand alignments, at the end of the world. I’ve worn Oakley glasses for a long time. In fact, at the last adventure, I lost my last pair — which have probably been around the world at least twice. To the end of considering...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Mar 10, 2010
The Character of the Alphabet and the Maze of Knowing, the Real and Uncertain. What’s real, anyway? And — to the question of “any way, which?” what is the right “reading”? There’s a mystery in the alphabet — one, ages...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Motion Pictures | Jan 24, 2010
Sky Captain, Hugh Ferriss, Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes and the implications of design in entertainment Over time, I’ve had the chance to link with, and work for, extraordinary talent. It’s a blessing. And it’s a gift of the work — as a...
by Tim Girvin | General, Motion Pictures | Jan 15, 2010
The sense of time in brand: chronology, palaeography and theatrical accuracy. There are a grouping of writers that explore the concepts of typographic design and motion pictures. I’m one. While the notion of typographic precision, in design, is some what of a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Dec 19, 2009
Early counsel: the strategy on brand identity, for one of the best motion picture brand developers in the world. A number of years, back, I had the opportunity to work with James Cameron and his marketing team on the conception of the Abyss. That being, in particular,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Nov 20, 2009
Exploring design, art and imagination: motion picture branding, Tim Burton, and the legacy of Girvin identity and cinematic brand design. Tim Burton, MoMa, what a nice idea. As a designer for Tim Burton, I will offer that I never had the chance to meet him, work with...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Nov 16, 2009
What’s the connection to the notion of world-ending sagas? Why? I’d venture that there’s a fascination with the idea of the end of the world — people are attracted to it — and the question might be: why? Why would the world end —...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Oct 19, 2009
Customized type face design, font development and motion picture design Over the course of the last 3 decades, Girvin has designed literally hundreds of identity design strategies with hand-drawn typefaces for motion picture main titling design, one sheets, posters,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 31, 2009
Examining brand design, storytelling and identity in literature and motion pictures Frank McCourt lived a life that few have journeyed. And he passed that life, last month, on the 19th. He’s best known for his authorship of “Angela’s Ashes” a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 30, 2009
Exploring the fashionability of the preternatural (brand) Lina Leandersson | “Let the Right One In” Magnet Releasing I’ve made some observations in the past, about the patterning of doom — the idea that in the midst, or in the emergence of...
