A GIRVIN Gift for You: December Week 3
Are you looking to shake up your traditions and try something a little more footloose? Try a new twist on a familiar favorite this season: chocolate chip cookies with bacon! This is Senior Designer Kevin’s favorite recipe—it was a big hit at the office holiday party,...
A GIRVIN Gift for You: December Week 2
Enjoy this free downloadable Blackletter exemplar! Start by printing out the download, then we suggest using some tracing paper and a calligraphy pen (recommended 3.8 - 4.5 mm) to get started. Download 11x17
A GIRVIN Gift for You: December Week 1
Enjoy this free mistletoe pattern to use as your own winter-themed background on your computer, iPhone, or iPad—or even use it to create your own wrapping paper! DESKTOP: 1024×768 \\\ 1280×1024 \\\ 1680×1050 MOBILE: iPhone \\\ iPad Pro
THE DESIGNER’S GRIMOIRE
THE INTERIOR PATTERNED DESIGN LANGUAGE OF TALISMANIKA™ GIRVIN’S SYMBOLIC DESIGN SEQUENCING FOR INTERIORS, FURNITURE AND GRAPHICAL LANGUAGE IN PLACEMAKING. Any designer knows that a simple plane, an empty piece of paper, a coverless book, an empty package or the...
WATCH FULLNESS | JOURNEY, PROCESSION + THE STRATEGY OF BRANDS
YOU MAKE YOUR WAY—IT’S YOUR MAPPING, YOU MARK THE WAY FORWARDS— A PATHWAY THAT YOU TAKE, AND YOU ACTIVATE YOUR FIRST STRIDE FORWARD. To get somewhere, it’s up to you to take the first step. That, of course, speaks to your life— the journey you’re on, what you’re...
DESIGNING TERRIFYING ARCHITECTURE WITHIN MAGICAL CONSTRUCTS
MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR THIR13EN GHOSTS. BRAND DESIGN AND PLACEMAKING. THE USE OF SIGILLIC GRAPHICS AS A PLACEMAKING DESIGN THEOREM. What about graphical contexts in making place[s]? I think about it as a pattern language, a place storytelling—especially...
DEEP SMOKE | THE DARK WHISPER OF THE PERFUME GODS
Gunung Merapi, Java IN THE MYSTERY OF THE MIST OF FRAGRANCE Living where I live—here in the Pacific Northwest—I’m constantly ambling in the rain and mist; and I note that scent of place is invariably mist-borne. The ocean calls out many stories, carries many...
THE DEEP AND FERTILE SEA | WAVE CREATIVITY
INSPIRATIONS FOR CREATIVE ACTION, MESSAGING AND DESIGN | THE DEEP STORYTELLING OF THE SEA When I was a child, growing up in Spokane, there would be the occasional parental inquiry—“it’s time for the Opera—a vacation, and where would you like to go?” I had an answer,...
GIRVIN’s Custom Font Design for Architecture
2001: A Space Odyssey IN 1968, I WAS FIRST STRUCK BY THE NOTION OF INTEGRATED DESIGN. I WAS 15. When I think about powerful moments of design discovery, it was likely Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey that taught me about the idea of thematic consistency,...
BULLSEYE
And the implications to brand, strategy and the target Image: Disney Marvel Studios In my history, working around brand space, there are inherently central points of business structure, key practices that boost the brand’s proposition—channel core offerings. The...