by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places, Storytelling | Aug 12, 2014
THE VOLCANIC IMPETUS. ONCE IN MY LIFE, I’D TRIED TO BUILD A PLAN TO RUN [HIKE AND SUMMIT] THE VOLCANIC CIRCUIT ON JAVA, THE GREAT ISLAND OF INDONESIA — TO HIKE THE SPINE OF ONE OF THE GREATEST VOLCANIC ARRAYS IN THE WORLD, THE SO-CALLED “RING OF FIRE.” I hiked a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places, Storytelling | Aug 7, 2014
And In Your Search, What Have You Seen? I was thinking about people that I’ve talked to — to learn more about their history. Not what they’re doing, what their job is, but rather — where have they been, and what have they seen? Scene, seen? [Image above: T R A I L E R...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 28, 2014
Designing Magic: The Draft of the Letter as the Quest for Mystery Everyone knows that occult really means hidden. But in that, one might surmise that the Cult of the Occult would be nothing more than the quest for the hidden. I probably live there, in more ways than...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 24, 2014
The Fire of Brand: Is there a story, in a story, in a dream, in another telling? Years ago I was talking to a innovations forum, a large confederated brand team at Procter & Gamble about the layering of brand, in story — this was downtown Cincinnati, Building One...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Places, Storytelling | Jul 15, 2014
The Journey of Storytelling in the Context of Space, Made Narrative Place. In the past, we’ve written about the idea of cinematic production design — and individual designers and directors — their interplay, and how interpretations of context are made. Interestingly,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent, Storytelling | Jun 17, 2014
Anytime? In the work of brand, are you ever off, or always on? I was walking this remote road, and I found this sign in the middle of anywhere, no where — “ANYTIME.” When I find signs like this, I’m prone to ponder their meaning — as if...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 12, 2014
Looking at the dark side of brand, their strategies, and their stories. In the work of finding the heart and soul space of a team of entrepreneurs, their creation, a brand and the story of their telling — community and relationships — sometimes a darker...
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 | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Apr 29, 2014
The journey of the answer. Anytime you have an answer, there was a question before. And any question is a quest — it’s a journey, from one place of comprehension, the grip of knowing, to the pathway to a step of insight. And in that in sight, you see in. I...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 22, 2014
When you draw a letter, what happens? A drawing is a drawing out; draw a letter, the string of story unspools and it’s something more. A letter is a map, an anciently originated succession of markings, a thought cartography, a seared, scarred, scratched, penned,...
