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by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Places, Trends | Nov 19, 2012
Doing good, as a contributor to community, in design — could be “helping me, helping you.” How would you improve life in NYC? How can you help? Anywhere? As a pro bono designer? There’s nothing [as it seems to me, these days] as challenging as... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands, Interior Design, Luxury, Retail | May 31, 2007
NY Magazine Article, “Tom Ford After Sex” —- While I didn’t get an appointment, for a tour and fitting…I did have the chance to check out the retail design of Tom Ford’s new story. Store, I mean. The skin of the store is quiet,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 7, 2009
Designing the brand as an excursion into the extraordinary: imagination and digital place-making in adventure. Girvin has thrived — and designed — for decades in the extraordinary, the enchanted, imagined environment as a place of design marvelment; since... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Oct 26, 2023
How to build brand storytelling for terrifying design narratives Clive Barker It was roughly 40 years ago that I read Clive Barker’s “Books of Blood,” which struck me as a remarkably distinctive turn on the horrifying—as expertly fear-inducing storytelling. Stephen... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Places | Dec 21, 2012
How to plan and design a menu? Key is close collaboration — and knowing the diner, the experience strategy, the character of illumination, stylistic consciousness, and the budgeting of items in relation to the financial strategy of the brand. A menu, like the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Interior Design | Aug 7, 2019
Experientiality. A quick scan of the dictionary shows nothing, just words that are “around” this spelling—experience and experientially. I thought when I first used it that I’d made it up. But there is more to it—from two sides: one]—from the Latin, experiri—which is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 22, 2016
There is a legend, and there was once a mere story, about the Old American West — one that has transfixed the world. Who’s not compelled to admire some part of that storytelling? Or know some rawhide narrative, that has been shared — campfire round, out on the Range,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Feb 22, 2023
In our own history, we have been honored to cross from core motion picture identity to its applicable resonance in production design. Working on the Lots at Paramount, Warner Brothers and Universal, and meeting with the production crews for various film properties and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Storytelling | Jul 19, 2017
WANDERING, YOU GET OUT THERE — IN A STRAIGHT OR MEANDERING LINE — THERE ARE PLACES TO DISCOVER, MEMORIES TO BE MADE, FRIENDS TO FIND. AND YOU’RE FOLLOWING WHAT BEACON, MAP MADE, LINE TRACED? YOUR PLOTTED LINE, YOUR INSTINCT, THE SUN, A DREAM? DESTINY? Of course, as we... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Uncategorized | May 5, 2008
Paramount | Marvel imagery files ©2008 Notes on the history of the Iron Man brand, the evolution of identity and how it comes to be. There’s a certain conception of brand design in motion pictures. And the point is that cinema represents inherently stories that... Read More