The Raven, a telling
Look, listen, study -- the poetry of the birds I am watching the birds, and listening to their calls. More so, I'm watching how they watch. Normally, that's something that I do with people -- watching how they look at things. How do people see? Driving across the...
The touch of the hand, crafting The Lord of the Rings logo drafts
Design studies for the LOTR and Peter Jackson The process of film identity and brand development is intensely competitive, there are a series of talents, team and agencies whose sole enterprises are focused 100% of the time on theatrical advertising -- for an outsider...
Macklemore | Layers of the story
There's a story in the story, there's a poem in the poem, there is a place within the place. [image: girvin | Seattle, 2012] In the realm of any study, the student realizes that there are layers to comprehension -- one understands the bare facts, these become other...
Drafting messages for goodness
A calligraphy for a Lama's retreat in the Himalayas In recent months, Girvin | Seattle had a blessing of place with a long-reclusive Lama Jigmela a practioner of prolonged retreats in absolute silence and deep meditation in a cave-like grotto in the Himalayas,...
THE ART OF THE HANGER
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE SIMPLEST PRODUCT DESIGN AND ITS VARIATIONS TO UTILITY. In the spirit of exploring the hand made, old-tech and the utility of the obvious solution -- from clothespins to pencils, I was talking to two people on two different bents. Girvin...
I was so dirty
The waft of scent and memory -- deep fragrances from the earth, the forest, dark smoke and fire I was so dirty, with scent: the power of perfume, dirt, darkness and memory Lying on my bed, in a darkened bedroom, painted a deep, raven-dark purple, I was looking at an...
Micro retail Tiny shops,Big coolness
The Touch of the Hand, the Human Presence, Retail Experience Design When I work on a restaurant, I always ask about the chef: "is he, or she, planning on being there, being present, consistently?" That, alone is a compelling proposition to managing the spirit of a...
People, Place and The Mighty Power | Japanese photographer:Daido Moriyama
There is a place, in a place, in a story in a story, a person in a person. And you could photograph that, the layering of these contents. Watch this, for more: http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/12/11?ecid=ema1993&CID I was thinking about the deeper, nascent power of...
THE SCENT OF COLOUR
When you see something, does a scent come to mind? Sensing synaesthesia -- the sensation of perfumed visualization. For a long time, we've been fascinated by the idea of hearing color, tasting sound, touching scent -- the notion, rather the condition, the syndrome of...
The writing on the wall
The notes of time, presented as a script to presence Are you here, awake, reading the runes on the wall, cast before you? When you look at the walls, what language, what telling, what stories are told to you? I was thinking about the end of the world, as we know it,...