The humanity of color | Pantone’s new human color numbering system & Angelica Dass:
Working in Vegas, over the course of four days, we all studied people. Our team was Cathy Mack, Girvin's San Francisco-based Director of Strategic Marketing, and Gabrielle Girvin [my daughter], Girvin's Seattle [and firm wide] Social Media Implementor and Participant...
Contemplations on the spin — us, our path, the ISS
Contemplations on the spin -- the whorl of us: our path, the ISS [a night journey]. And a question posed: Where have we been? Where are we going? And what will we do when we get there? Sometimes you need to get way out there to understand about where you've come from,...
Frank’s RedHot Vodka Cocktail
T H E S T O R Y O F C H R I S P F E I F E R -- A M A N A N D A D R E A M AND FRANK'S REDHOT! What if you had a dream -- the perfect new beverage composite -- a packaged innovation? How would you make it so? Happily coalescing an amazing...
Girvin Signage = Word Photography | One sign, another mark: just words, gathered
Just where, really -- are you going? And, if you're going, are you growing? And why, might be? Shooting words leads to the meditation on their meaning. Sure, you're thinking that you know what they mean, but what lies beneath that word -- could there be a hidden...
Stephen Kenn > expansions > Manly men | designing for them — stories about them
Stephen Kenn > Manly men brands | designing for them -- building brand + personal stories about them Embracing the masculine spirit, design, thinking, story and truth in offering. Thinking about a man, and designing for men -- it's a challenging meditation, given...
smoke + art | the wavy line
The captivation of smoke. Smoke signals, fire, designed motion. [parfumare -- "to smoke through."] The layering of smoke, art, incense, color and the tinting of dust -- the tracery of par fum. The smoky signals of journey. I was contemplating dust, the drifting mote...
Guy Laramee bookwork in transformation
The book, that is the leaf of time, space that becomes place and a world. Guy Laramee bookwork in transformation -- presented by Foster White Gallery, Seattle A friend of mine pointed out a show, of an artist -- with a broad vocabulary of explorations, Guy Laramee --...
Building a Wave, Incubation
Building a wave, rippling out innovation and incubation strategies In the past, [1943 / Burbank] there was a team that built a remote, offsite-working, brainstorming and product innovation model called the skunkworks. Supposedly, the origination of the skunkworks...
What I have learned in one day
What I have learned in one day is t h a t : ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– E V E R Y D A Y i s a J O U R N E Y [SMALL OR LARGE] ––– That: however long, difficult or winding these stairs might be -- their point is to take you to another point of view, another...
100 years | The Eagle Scout
The Legacy of the Eagle Scout Award This year, the badge and legacy of the Eagle Scout reaches back a century. In the Girvin family, this is a potent tradition. All of the Girvin brothers are Eagles. And the tradition of scouting runs passionately deep in our...