by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | May 19, 2016
The Beauty of Ruination — the Quest for Damage The fascination with ruins. The beauty of that which was. When one hears that phrase, “brand new” it usually implies that which is bright and shiny — freshly made, just out of the mould. I tend not to have much interest...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Apr 28, 2016
The Walking Senseway to Spectacle and Sensation I was walking the road. And thought of the sound on my feet, scrabbling the gravel, sliding on some hot asphalt, smoother wet concrete, some metals, the swish of grass — then hard wood — the flooring — and another part...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Apr 21, 2016
The Quest for Soulful Places As a designer, I find that the work on converting spaces to more meaningful places, which more often than not has to do with the very journey of what soul is supposed to be. Soul is a ancient seed sound — a voicing — for sea, and the point...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Apr 5, 2016
SYMBOLIC EMBLEMS FOR INTERIORS: DESIGNING TALISMANS FOR A PLACE The Journey of Design, Place-making and Creative Environments: Archetypal Signage and Magical Badges As any designer knows, to brand and experience design, there is a link between storytelling and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Mar 31, 2016
You just never know. Meditations on exploration and the beauty of being lost, and finding again. As much as you think — “it will go this way” — it just might not. And that way that it does go, it seems, just might be the way that it is meant to be. There are paths,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Mar 17, 2016
PRINCIPLES OF ABOVENESS THE STATE OF WOWNESS* IN THE NATURE OF SEEING, THERE ARE DIRECTIONS – THE VECTORING OF PLACE AND SITE, SIGHT SEEN AND UNSEEN. BUT IT DOES COME DOWN TO THE LOOKING – AND THE LISTENING IN THE LOOK. AS ONE STUDIES ANYTHING, THERE IS THE REACH BACK...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Jan 21, 2016
The Poetry of Transition It is curious that only two seasons speak to action: the Spring. And the Fall. Winter doesn’t describe much, unless we are to infer…inter-ruption. Etymologically, winter is derived from the Old English: water. Summer is merely, in...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jan 19, 2016
PLACEMAKING AND JOURNEYS ………………….. WORKING + BEING IN A CERTAIN PLACE — A JOURNEY OF FINDING. There’s one thing, to the idea of working in other places in the world — learning to be there: work there, explore there, BE OUT THERE; but invariably that means that you are...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Dec 23, 2015
Rangelands, New Mexico — a long and blank expanse. Then there’s a sign. But it’s presuming something: you know where you’re going. I was transversing high desert rangelands, crossing the state, in a journey to a Monastery out in the desert. On the way there, I saw a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Places, Storytelling | Oct 13, 2015
THE WAYFINDER’S ART. THE DESIGN OF SIGNS. Where to? The art of being lost and finding your way. I WAS LOST, NOW I AM FOUND. What of the emotionality of that experience — I’m lost? I’m found. I’m finding my way? To pleas of positioning and geographic self...
