by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places, Retail | Oct 2, 2025
Customer Processions and Place Experientiality* You’re a journeyer, a wanderer, the wayfarer and walking sensation-searcher, right? When I go anywhere, I like to touch everything. As I come—and go—I’m looking for feelings. Of course, that’s a human condition, but...
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Sep 18, 2025
Since 1972, I’ve created a long string of design environments—from my on-campus college office in 1973, while at The Evergreen State College—with my first business license—the cabin that I lived and worked in on Eld Inlet—named Tim Girvin+Alphabet, off Murray Court...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Aug 22, 2025
Are you a touchy-feely person? From a GIRVIN book of mūdra, symbolic hand-poses— the universal language of gesture. I’m very much about touch. And feeling. The realm of the GIRVIN brand work is about hand-craft, making brands by hand, grasping digital interpretations...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Retail | Aug 5, 2025
The Nuance of the Hand-Wrought Being a handworker—a person that, over the last half century, has utilized my hands as a consistent pathway to the articulation of ideas, I tend to look for, and create in, the spirit of those things. You—being a creative person—know...
by Tim Girvin | Places | Jun 11, 2025
Designing a hand drawn stamp for the United States Post Office Everyone knows that I’m moving; I’ve been in—and out—of the Northwest Industrial Buildings at the foot of Queen Anne Hill, crossed in the nexus of Denny and Western, for 30 years. I was actually here, as...
by GirvinIT | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | May 2, 2025
A Journey in Design Explorations. When I first went to Japan to present my work as a designer, I was advised that I should be bringing gifts, and that I should offer the greeting–introducing myself, as well as the offer. This went like this, Hajimemashite, Tim...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places, Storytelling | Feb 10, 2025
Portfolios, collectible design processions and creating metaphorical gallery experiences. It’s an interesting contemplation to think about brand work, design, and value. Surely there is a lot of conversation about design as a value-inducement to brand propositions....
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Dec 5, 2024
Of course, as a brand person, a place-maker—as you are—we’re thinking: “if you’re not here, and not over there, then where are you? Do you know where you are? Or are you nowhere?” I’ve been talking A LOT about placemaking—and planning spaces, making places—since I’m...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 25, 2024
Spherical Design Holism for Hospitality | A Manual for Brand Placemaking Integration for Experiential Strategies and Tactics The Deployment of *Experientiality Earlier in my career, I worked on a string of projects for Disney, working with the Disney Imagineers and...
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places | Sep 27, 2024
As you walk a journey—there are symbols in the path of your stride. As a person that has history in building places, thinking design in destinations, I tend to think about everything as a migration of symbolic content. Surely, simply, contemplate walking in a door—you...
