by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Retail, Storytelling | Jan 28, 2008
I’d met Trish May, the foundress of Athena, several years ago — perhaps closer to a half decade now, considering our history in partnering on her business launch. She was a Microsoft executive with some serious international business strategy and marketing...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Jan 24, 2008
There is a mythic dimension in the character of storytelling; it’s an ancient tradition — it reaches to deep archetypes and cyclical patterns that show themselves repeating ways in which messages can be understood and shared — and how they can be...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Designers, Storytelling | Dec 31, 2007
1. How did you get your start? My start? Raw curiosity for one. That’s where it all started, that drove, and drives everything that I am made of. I am one that is easily enchanted by content. I can be ignited in a moment, if the right spark is there. A love of...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Luxury, Storytelling | Dec 17, 2007
I’d read the news about Claude Chirac in the past, studying her — in the political management of her father, Jacques Chirac. While she’s been defined as chilly, the fist of steel in an Herm glove, I believe that her character has more to do with her...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2007
What about lines? I’ve been thinking about them. And they’re everywhere. Obviously. But what I’m curious about is the patterning of the line — and what lies in the heart of the line. How’s it made? What gesture within? And the designed...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2007
This is about identity, visualizing and animation — and retail. And something I’d tried to do, but couldn’t. And someone (WOW | Tokyo) that did. My story. Their story. —- Last year, I’d worked on this idea of projecting this giant...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Oct 15, 2007
Seeds of Compassion | The Kirlin Foundation It’s interesting to note, sometimes, how entrepreneurs look at the premise of their enterprise as being, fundamentally, operational and transactional. There are literally thousands of businesses that operate otherwise,...
by Tim Girvin | Designers, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 22, 2007
What did influence me? Practice for one, looking for another. I look, I find. I research, I uncover. I dig, I excavate. When I was in college, I did this one section, this one grouping of studies of the history of the letterform. What is that, anyway? Palaeography....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places, Storytelling | Sep 9, 2007
When you look, you find. In working on a brand development project in eastern Washington, I was walking their vineyard to get, literally, the lay of the land. And, I’m looking for what lies beneath, what lies inside the brand story. And in any brand development,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | Sep 3, 2007
I realized that the branding visualizations that Sprint’s been doing with conductor-like expressions of people moving things, ideas, teams, etc., with light, was strangely reminiscent of something in my mind — not sure what, but it’s there....
