by Tim Girvin | Brands, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Nov 14, 2008
Exploring brand storytelling for restaurant experiences, notations and process. I’d met Antonio Corsano on a recommendation, or a referral, from Paul Bertolli. I’ve talked about this marvelous person in the past. The work with Paul, of course, was building...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 10, 2008
Designing The Pearl | Lincoln Square | Bellevue, WA Working with an extremely tight and confined team — I, along with others at Girvin | Seattle, as well as architect Dawn Clark, AIA LEED AP, and Robert Norwood, interior designer, began an extraordinary...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 2, 2008
Martha Holmes | Jackson Pollock Time©1949 Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers: exploring concepts of the visual language of creativity, music, madness — and the warmth of humanity in redemption. “Madness is the salt that keeps good sense from rotting.”...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Storytelling | Nov 2, 2008
This is the first in a series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. You’ve got to find what you love. Steve Jobs There’s passion here for me. Because I can personally relate to...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 20, 2008
I’ve been looking for truth. I’m looking for truth in my self — what do I do, in practicing what I tell, preach, to others. And telling the truth in the reign of the firm — what we do, what we offer, and how we go about doing it, in finding the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Sep 22, 2008
The BMW | Oracle Trimaran for the America’s Cup I’ve been a fan of BMW design for a long time. But I had a recent encounter that was breathtaking. I’ll get to that. The car of my beginnings was a 1972 2002. And what I savored about that car was...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail, Storytelling | Sep 19, 2008
Tom Barbitta is a friend of mine. A friend, as a client — a friend as an fellow explorer of story. A brand explorer. He believes in the power of story as a link to building relationships with people. Brand, in story, is solely about that — linking people...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Places, Storytelling | Sep 18, 2008
Exploring the illusory: branding ghosts and the veil of what is beyond… I’d been fascinated by the concept of the ghost – and the ghostly – for decades, since I was a kid. The magical, the mystical, the mysterious. Actually, my first big book purchase,...
by Tim Girvin | Storytelling | Sep 10, 2008
True Stories: a quest for narrative in the psyche of hybrid experience. During the 90s, I came to a string of crises in my life – while I was at the epitome of success, the biggest design firm for more than a decade, lots of money, big projects, I was profoundly...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Designers, Scent, Storytelling | May 14, 2008
Brand experience is always about gathering content and pointing — even in synaesthetic context — to all of them. The notion of synaesthesia is about sensations crossing modality, from one sense to another. This concept of merging sentience speaks to...
