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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Aug 30, 2010
SEEKING INSPIRATIONS | CREATIVE MENTORS: HAROLD BALAZS: THE DEFINITIONS OF DESIGN SPIRIT: A CHILDHOOD, RECALLED GROWING UP CREATIVE | WHO’S THE TEACHER THAT PLANTS THE SEED? Creative [V I B E] is juice, it’s jazz, it’s fire; unquenchable —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Trends | May 26, 2009
Marketing sex, retail and the recession There’s been a dire downturn, underlining the bleakly obvious. And it’s been down for everyone — everything — everywhere. All markets — and each of us — everyone’s been affected,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Apr 27, 2009
Sure, I care what you have to say. I’ve been thinking about storms. Mostly because I thrive on storms. When a storm comes, I savor it. I relish the word, the nature of it – the overwhelming presence of the concept of the storm — and, of course, the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Jul 21, 2011
The context of designing places that are human, places that are not. In the principles of fast casual food / beverage design, a mid-priced, faster service experience proposition, the notion of the holistic character of guest presence has to do with a layering of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures | Jul 10, 2023
Creative input from motion picture leadership Out—looking in. In—looking out. Exploring questions, questing for answers. In the history of our efforts in motion picture design, advertising brand design packages for films, it’s not infrequent that there is a direct... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Oct 20, 2022
INSPIRATIONS FOR CREATIVE ACTION, MESSAGING AND DESIGN | THE DEEP STORYTELLING OF THE SEA When I was a child, growing up in Spokane, there would be the occasional parental inquiry—“it’s time for the Opera—a vacation, and where would you like to go?” I had an answer,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places | Jun 10, 2022
M A K E Y O U R W A Y S BRAND SPACE—THE STRATEGY OF MAKING—STORYTELLING, PLACE-MAKING, THE PERSONAL JOURNEY OF THE WORK—WHAT YOU MAKE AND THE WAY YOU MAKE IT. Isn’t it so that our journey—as creatives, designers, wordsmiths, strategists—is a stride towards finding?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places | Jun 23, 2021
Working in Asia, as well as other parts of the planet, particularly in emerging economies, the notion of tinier living environments is well implemented—needfully so. Big living environments are—everywhere—far more costly and mostly less efficient than smaller... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 13, 2018
THE DESIGN VOCABULARY: VISUALIZATION, MESSAGING AND THE PATTERNING OF IDEAS, MARKS AND MEANING. I had a chance to present, at the behest of the esteemed Mark Anderson a string of ideas at the Strategic News Service presentation of FiRe at the Stein Ericksen Lodge in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Mar 20, 2018
WHAT ABOUT THE IDEA THAT COMES AS A SPARK, A LIGHTNING BOLT, A BLINDING BURST OF LIGHT AND SUDDEN INSIGHT? Now I see m o r e. There is a global mythic legacy of the thunderbolt; you might recall that there is some familiarity for you— a lightning strike moment, that... Read More
