by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 6, 2015
Every great journey starts with a question. The ask is the foundation of listening: you ask, you learn, you speak, you hear, you lean in, you’ll sense and see more wholly. Because you’re closer. The big question always comes as the off hand remark, that if you’re...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Jul 30, 2015
SIGNAGE, MESSAGING, SCALE AND BEAUTY. I’m not saying that we’ve not designed massive signage. We have, we’ve created signing that can be seen for miles. Yes, Vegas. And other places. But what I admire are more elegantly restrained solutions. What one might think are...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 28, 2015
Design explorations, teaching and creativity We know what we know by virtue of where we have been, and what we recall of that pathway. As designers and creatives, everything comes from journey. It’s where we’ve been and where we’re going. There are symbols that are...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 8, 2015
Spelunking Brands There is a patterning that one can see in caves, the geolocational strata, stones, layers, sediments, ice, water, rivers and concretions — as an explorer of caves, it’s kind of like mountaineering inside mountains — interior alpinism, as in the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 17, 2015
The Nature of Interlinking, Knotmaking, Braiding and the Entwinement of Storytelling. As a journeyer in brand, and the fire making of its fluency in community, I find myself in the study of the under-layments of how it works. As noted long back, it’s a storytelling...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 10, 2015
The Context of Message, Framing of Context and Visualization I look for signs that aren’t signs — in a conventional sense — they tell another deeper story, but sigils that signal a message that stand for the nature of a place. Cairns, ovoo, iwakura no mononoke,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | May 13, 2015
Love Brands: Relationships, Commitments and Storytelling. I did this installation, out on a cliff, away from everything, looking out — the deep blue sea. And the sun. And I was “looking through L O V E,” thinking about that ancient question: “who do you...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 30, 2015
Wabi Sabi and Beauty There is a perspective that things that have lived for a long time are worthy of respect and admiration. Old is more beautiful. You can’t fake old. Wabi Sabi. That Japanese principle of beauty in age comes to a reflection of two principles —...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 23, 2015
The Beauty of Being Lost and Finding Found The signs that point to nowhere. Earlier, I was in Paris — I was working in an area that I was relatively familiar with — off Musée du Louvre, not far from the Seine. I’d been there, staying there, working many times,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 16, 2015
The twists and turns of meaning — drawn knowledge. In teaching workshops on the alphabet, and especially finding your own place in the quintessential expression of the YOU, in alphabetic form — the flow of your presence. What I believe is that each person has traits...
