by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Places, Trends | May 9, 2008
My friend Dawn Clark, AIA LEED®AP, Principal at NBBJ | Design — sent along this story; digging in, I’ve found more. I’ve written a lot about patterning. Actually, I’m captivated by it. Patterning as a kind of subtle substrate brand messaging,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling, Trends | May 4, 2008
Microsoft Surface© interface Some ideas about issues of interface, and the storytelling around the making of a film project, utilizing the nascent Microsoft surface© technology. the sharing, image-shifting capacity of the surface© technology. Films (motion picture and...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Apr 24, 2008
Last Wednesday I attended the Seattle chapter of the Executive Women’s International forum http://ewiseattle.org/ at the Columbia Tower (with a spectacular view from the 75th floor). The guest speaker was Ted Simmons, advertising guru and previous CEO of Arnold...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Apr 14, 2008
Some notes on the spiritual branding of the principles of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama — and what that means for business, brand development and human capital in culture. Firms of Endearment. I’ve spent the last couple of days walking around the edge of...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Apr 7, 2008
Exploring the principles of art, craft, making and the philosophical vision: Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/murakami/ What about Takashi Murakami? “the difference inherent in Japanese and Western artistic practices, and the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, General, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Apr 2, 2008
Exploring the concept of an emerging dark luster in design, it might be more so about the exhausting confusion and difficulties of the present market — and the swirling chaos of the near future. What’s happening now? Is the end nigh? Or night, near? What...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling, Trends | Mar 30, 2008
Buzzing, twittering, twitching: Exploring community development in online new media launches. When I was at TED | Aspen, last month, I found myself in a world of people — my age and younger, late 30s, 40s, 50s — who were communicating with each other in...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Trends | Mar 23, 2008
Rem Koolhaas A new vision in Dubai is an amalgam of the plain with the bold — OMA & Rem Koolhaas “Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas revealed his concept of “the generic city,” a sprawling metropolis of repetitive buildings centered on an airport and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Trends | Mar 21, 2008
For a number of years, I’ve been exploring the idea of patterning in design. Patterning in brand, patterning in architecture, patterned treatments in art. That ranges from the idea of using layering — and pattern — as a kind of subdued code in...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Scent, Trends | Mar 15, 2008
Everything smells. Every thing — scents. There are layers to scent in experience. It’s all about what you remember, what you hold — what scene, seen? What there was, in experience, that lent you to some level of exposure. That recalls — that...
