by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 18, 2015
The Journey of Mystery — Finding Soul, Designing Creativity, Building Solutions. Finding What Can’t be Known I revisit this earlier journal entry. Part of my history, as some know, is a viral curiosity that takes me to some unlikely places. Looking for answers,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 6, 2015
Every great journey starts with a question. The ask is the foundation of listening: you ask, you learn, you speak, you hear, you lean in, you’ll sense and see more wholly. Because you’re closer. The big question always comes as the off hand remark, that if you’re...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 26, 2015
The Art of Spacing In. In the frenzy of our present experience, we all struggle with the ever-unrelenting issue of connectivity. We need to be connected to everything, all the time. There is a phrase in the context of social and hybrid community management known as...
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, Storytelling | Aug 28, 2014
The work, the craft, the art, the energy. In a manner, much of my journey has been about where I’ve been and what I’ve seen. And what is unforgettable in my experiences with designers, craftspeople, makers and wonderers [and wanderers]. The above image from a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 28, 2014
Designing Magic: The Draft of the Letter as the Quest for Mystery Everyone knows that occult really means hidden. But in that, one might surmise that the Cult of the Occult would be nothing more than the quest for the hidden. I probably live there, in more ways than...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 19, 2014
Look Deep. The Art of Seeing In. I was looking at some stones that I’d drawn on, and I realized that “seeing” was a frequent reference — I draw on a stone and leave it out as a re-minder. Looking out for these — or any marked stone — white-granite-veined X or O...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent, Storytelling | Jun 17, 2014
Anytime? In the work of brand, are you ever off, or always on? I was walking this remote road, and I found this sign in the middle of anywhere, no where — “ANYTIME.” When I find signs like this, I’m prone to ponder their meaning — as if...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Places, Storytelling | May 6, 2014
There are bad signs, and then there are worse signs. In the journey of a designer of signing and related environmental graphics — the core point of the design strategy is storytelling — the story might be: this is the place; go here, do not go here, you...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | May 1, 2014
THE FOLIAGE OF THE ALPHABET AS THE DEEPER HEART OF WISDOM Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonations of a few metaphors. – Jorge Luis Borges, “Pascal’s Sphere,” 1951 I’ve drawn a word a day on leaves, thinking: each word, as a work...
