by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Feb 3, 2012
There’s a story about beautiful garbage, based on the idea of one person’s — a team — visioning of a litter free place. That being — an alley. In Seattle, the founder team came up with the notion of “dumpster free” alleys, by... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 14, 2011
While you’re looking out, traveling the distant vista — a long road, the living running — the journey shall continue. And who said it would be easy? Craft, in the making of anything, building the outbound relationships to people, in the truth of it,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design | Jun 20, 2011
Sensations in Experience (Design) In working through a series of materials for a new retail concept, it was interesting to see the preponderance of materials that lusted after the slickest vocabulary of finish. Easy to clean. But, to the nature of soul in (brand)... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 21, 2010
Notes on signing, wayfinding, alphabets and recognition. When you are lost, where do you go, what do you do? You can, metaphorically, look for a sign. That might help. Or you can look at a map. They are the same thing. A sign is a map. A map is, in fact, a grouping of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 14, 2010
And me. A week back someone said, “why are you always writing about Steve Jobs, I mean, really — what’s the connection?” Calligraphy The connection goes back to Stanford. And the Stanford Conference on Design. Back then, I would go to these... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Jan 25, 2010
Art on streetscape | holding construction and the impending quietude in the wait for financing Still, most people are waiting for financing; that is, the banks, while mostly funded back in government bailouts, repaid in context, other major projects are sitting and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People | Sep 9, 2009
Marketing apocalypse, branding oblivion I’ve been studying some thematic elements in Russian society — a sense of myth, Slavic legend and a kind of genetic leaning in the personality of Eastern European storytelling — and, of course, how that relates... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Nov 16, 2008
Exploring the patterning of national crises and the outcomes in humanity — the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Barack Obama’s positioning for renewal. 1936 WPA poster I’m hoping for that — change, as adroitly put in Barack Obama’s... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Dec 6, 2023
Your name is your apex point of recognition—it’s the first thing that your audience sees and hears—it’s the hello: “my name is, here’s what I do. And here’s what I can do for you.” We know naming. GIRVIN has a quarter century of active naming experience, with a... Read More
