by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Luxury, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | May 26, 2016
Care, Craft and Centrality in the Value of Place in Authentic Making Earlier, working in, and writing about, luxury, I’d talked about truth — the deadly virus of pompous positioning of luxury goods. “Yes, fancy surely, but we actually had it made in China on the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Motion Pictures | May 17, 2016
Designing Alphabets, Messaging and Meaning. The alphabetic coding of “The Matrix.” The metaphors of threading content, digital rain, flow and the loom of meaning in context I was talking to a team of students from my college days, reteaching, again some of the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Storytelling, Trends | Dec 24, 2014
The Principle of the Search: More Beauty [Photo: Dawn A. Clark, AIA Leed AP] In our life journey, as creatives — people that create — we listen, absorb, gather, interpret and make meaning. We work to import and deliver content in a manner that is compelling to a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jun 6, 2012
There’s a distinction between the sensation of raw space, and the making of place – – a place to be, that can be, held. The nature of holding is about warmth, holding — being held. Etymologically, it might be offered that “relating”...