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Emotional signage: hospitality graphics with feeling
Examining the shopfronts, façades and skins of South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida. Signing design: strategies of visualization as an emotional storytelling. The evocations of deco. Take me someplace that feels right. There are levels to signing. On the one front, signs...
THE METAPHOR OF THE LIGHTHOUSE
Exploring symbolic design strategies in the making of place: experiencing deeper meaning in architecture The granary, the watchtower, the guiding light -- metaphors of transition for 2010>2011 Over 40 years of working as a designer, I've been thinking about the idea...
Love, story, brand and the cartography of strategy — drawing it out.
Exploring brand metaphors and soul: charting strategic pathways and innovation I was thinking about search -- reaching in(to people) -- listening to them, learning from them, and gathering their impressions and ideas. Search for it, listen to them, what does that look...
Camay | Brand, story, legend: vanishment
Passage, relevance and the scent of time. Brand re-invention, dissolution and reclamation. The pink bar of soap: 84 years of Camay. Photograph by Dan Neville. What happens when a brand disappears? Girvin brand backgrounder Working as brand strategists for Procter &...
See Your Impact | Finding the Soul of Charity
What is the nature of compelling giving? What are the tools to build a brand story that has soul, connectedness and impact to emerging audiences? Dig in. Go deep. Reach far. Finding time, reaching to the giving community in building humanitarian brand and charities...
The Wandering of Fragrance
The study of scent, recollection and experience An obsession with scent: the fragrance of place It's pretty clear, to anyone that works in the fragrance place of marketing, brand strategy, utilization of tactical "fume" in enhancing experience, that the evolution and...
The Symbolism of the X
What lies beneath: the nature of the x, the cross road, the crossing guard, the mark of the x and the magic of the nexus. Girvin imagery | screen or site shot from handheld The symbolic allegory of the x mark. When I was in Bali, I was surprised by the villager's...
Nicole Miller + Blackbird | Ballard (Seattle)
Exploring the concept of clustered retail -- microshop villages Brand, story, the hunt and connection -- a nexus of inspiration and ideation In my circulation in Seattle and NYC -- two places where Girvin offices are -- I find the wandering way to be one of the best...
Search visualizations: search and recognition
Search and Data visualizations: hunt, gather, search and recognition. WikiLeaks and the storm of misuse of content -- and how they look. The visualization of search, the quest for answers and gathered content -- are you happy now? WBPaley.com The Map of Science (see...
Logo recognition | Mind the gap
There's a point to referencing the concept of the one week old logo -- one might be, "really, who cares?" There is a challenge in web culture that prevails -- cynicism. If there's a point of pot-shot taking, why not make it cynical -- it's so hard to be brutally...