WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY? DESIGNING JOURNEYS AND EXPLORATIONS
WANDERING, YOU GET OUT THERE — IN A STRAIGHT OR MEANDERING LINE — THERE ARE PLACES TO DISCOVER, MEMORIES TO BE MADE, FRIENDS TO FIND. AND YOU’RE FOLLOWING WHAT BEACON, MAP MADE, LINE TRACED? YOUR PLOTTED LINE, YOUR INSTINCT, THE SUN, A DREAM? DESTINY? Of course, as we...
THE RIPPLING | WAVES OF INNOVATION
THE RISING CURL OF A WAVE STARTS AS A QUIETING PEBBLE DROP — THEN IT WHISPERS, RIPPLES OUT — ONWARDS. MURMURING, THERE IS A TREMOR — AND NOW IT’S A WAVE. TREND ON — TSUNAMI UPLIFT. Waves curl as a spectacular metaphor — just in their very movement, analogous to...
I LOVE YOU
CONCEPTIONS AND EXPLORATIONS OF INTIMACY: BRAND LOVE-MAKING? What’s the path for engagement? How does a brand move from enchantment, to engagement, to the interlacing of embracement? What is the way that people hold on to the storytelling of a brand in a manner that...
AI WEIWEI, JACQUES HERZOG AND PIERRE DE MEURON @ THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY | NYC
THE JOURNEY OF LOSS, FINDING, FORGETFULNESS AND THE EYE OF SURVEILLANCE. My Mother taught me about watchfulness and listening. Of studying situations, examining human movements, physical linguistics, moments and interactions, ticks and tells, notes and reveals — as an...
Future Forward | Brand Strategies and Intentional Ignition
FUTURE FORWARD | BRAND STRATEGIES AND INTENTIONAL IGNITION TIME TO LIGHT THAT FIRE. Brief creativity? Can creativity be defined in a brief? Probably not. What is a creative brief — and is there a point to being brief? In a cycle of a half-decade, more often than not,...
The Bastard Letter | The Calligraphy of The Game of Thrones
THE BASTARD LETTER | LITTERA BASTARDA, JON SNOW & THE CALLIGRAPHY OF THE GAME OF THRONES GIRVIN CALLIGRAPHY CLASSES WALK OUR TEAMS BACK IN TIME — THE CRAFT AND HISTORY OF THE LETTER, A JOURNEY IN PALAEOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL HISTORY. What was drawn then, what was...
BRANDCROWDS: THE JOURNEY TO MEMORY | METAPHORS, MINDS & MEANING.
The Quest for Meaningful Relationships and Memorable Commitments, Magnetic Brands. Strategies of change, impermanence and content: collaborative design and GIRVIN evolutions. I was talking to someone about history — my history — now four decades of continuous practice...
*EXPERIENTIALITY: HOLISTIC EXPERIENCE DESIGN AND SENSATIONALISM FOR BRANDED PLACEMAKING
Thinking processes for experience design strategy and deployment During the 1990-early 2000s, I spent time working with the Disney Imagineers and Park Strategists at Disneyland — designing experiences, brands and their integrated strategies in Orlando and Anaheim. As...
THE BRAND SENTINEL
LOOK OUT, THERE — YOU’RE SENSING THE HORIZON LINE — SEE IN: THE ART OF SURVEILLANCE. THERE IS A LOOKOUT, THERE — THE ROLES OF SENTIENCE, THE SENTINEL AND THE SCOUT. AND IN THE BRAND — WHAT MIGHT YOU BE WATCHING FOR? SENTINEL FOR THE BRANDFIRE Looking out in the...
Designing Spiritual Spaces
SPIRITSP[L]ACE WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN THAT IS THE MOST PROFOUNDLY POWERFUL, SPIRITUALLY RIVEN, MAGNETICALLY CAPTIVATING PLACE? WHAT’S UNFORGETTABLE? Some know about my experiences, early on, bringing artist / designer James Turrell to Seattle, as a COCA board member,...