by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jun 3, 2014
Isn’t it so — that you find your space — and, it’s you, your story, that will define and make your own place? I walked into a painter’s workplace, a studio – in NYC. It was, to all expectations of pretense, a good studio, a study in...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Interior Design, Places | May 20, 2014
The layering of textured sensation at Comme des Garçons | Dover Street Market | NYC In one’s career, there are intersections, points at which you make a crossroads crossing — you come into the intersection going one way, and you leave that, as crossing...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | May 13, 2014
The Context of Holistic Branding, Experience Design and the Person Earlier, in NYC, I was talking to an Aikido master about sensation — and the sphere of awareness. It might be suggested that Aikido — a “way of ki,” is more about finding the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Retail, Scent | May 8, 2014
The Design of Fragrances From The Forest Sometimes, it’s a ritual. A gathering of clans, spirits, prayers and reaching to another place, the plane of the unseen. Sometimes, it’s just fire, smoke and the vapors of translation — from woods and grasses...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Places, Storytelling | May 6, 2014
There are bad signs, and then there are worse signs. In the journey of a designer of signing and related environmental graphics — the core point of the design strategy is storytelling — the story might be: this is the place; go here, do not go here, you...
by Tim Girvin | Places, Storytelling | Mar 20, 2014
Get In There. Get Dirty. Get Deep. Digging Into Experience and Brand Learning. The Strategy of Story, Name, Journey. In every moment, there is a journey. The tiny steps of an instant, make up the chronology of a stride to the cartography of a longer journey, a path...
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures, Places, Storytelling | Mar 18, 2014
STUDYING THE CREATION OF PLACE IN FILM-MAKING AND COSMICAL INFLUENCES OF ARCHITECTURAL STORYTELLING. When I was in college, I was transfixed by architecture that sought to tell a higher story. Working with the majestic cross-thinking of Professor Lloyd Reynolds, I...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Scent, Storytelling | Mar 13, 2014
A TOUCHING BOOK, CONTEMPLATING 360º IN BRAND AND EXPERIENCE A VISUAL MEDITATION EXPLORING THE JOURNEY; A LEGACY OF THE SENSATE. The human stance of holism. Every journey is a storytelling of sensuality — how you sense and experience the grand sphere of your...
by Tim Girvin | Places, Scent | Mar 6, 2014
The Craft of Making Senses In the spirit of sensate journey, being out there, I was digging around in the basement of an old building in NYC, down south, Soho way. Late 1800s — a subway nexus, just off Houston. While I was there, looking for stories, things...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places | Mar 4, 2014
Conceiving Story in the Procession of Imagination: the Labyrinthine Mind of Orhan Pamuk The journey in is the journey out, a spiral of movement and emotion — “I turn in, follow, I turn out:” that journey continues. I was in Istanbul for a retail...
