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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 13, 2013
The Whorl of Making and Imagination Sometimes when I’m thinking about a challenge, working my way throughout a complex puzzle — I draw my self into it, and out of it. Above, my little finger on an iPhone. Below, the dinner table and a team meeting,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 7, 2012
(Girvin | Barcelona) THE FINITE, THE INFINITE — AND WHO CARES WHERE YOU’RE GOING? HOW FAR MIGHT YOUR STORY GO? FAR — TO THE CALL OF THE RIPPLE. I remember when I was in grade school, and I couldn’t quite figure out the spelling of infinity... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Storytelling | Aug 8, 2011
WHAT LANGUAGE: YOUR MESSAGE? WHAT CALL: YOUR PLEA? WHAT TONE: YOUR HOPE? HOW LOUD: YOUR REACH? Sometimes I’m asking for help. But I’m not asking for help in the right way. One calls out, but the call falls on deafness. The point might be that the call is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Places, Storytelling | Jul 29, 2011
I got a note from some friends at the Oxford English Dictionary. It was about this word, “abracadabra” — and perhaps you’ve got the same one, since you might have friends there too. Earlier in my life, studying the history of the word, the real... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 27, 2009
GIRVIN: the early discovery of calligraphy and typographic design: stories, differentiation, craft and beauty. I had an early experience, a blessing, as a designer, working in NYC for the grand luminaries of design. Late 70s. What that meant was courage, perhaps more... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 11, 2009
The Collection of Books, the Library as a Place of Sensual Imagining. I’ve been writing about the concept of the book in a multiplicity of layers. I see the book as being a deeper metaphor than merely the concept of a series of paper flanges that leaf, loosely,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General, Storytelling | Feb 23, 2009
How does the framing of sight, and outcome of interpreted visualziations, drive design? And in looking — seeing — do you increasingly tune your sensing of visual content — and the display of it? While it’s surely impossible to define,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 28, 2014
There is a sign, and beneath that sign is another sign. Brands and palimpsest, the layers of content. When I was working in Paris, I marveled at the old shopfronts and the signing on signing — a new sign, on an old sign. You’ve seen them in your town. An old sign... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 4, 2013
The Stroke of the Idea, in Sound, Found. When I was in Seoul, looking at, and working on Korean retail design, I stopped and watched a street calligrapher, who was writing phrases on newspaper. In the midst of the noise and flurry of the streetscape, I stood and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Trends | Mar 15, 2012
Sometimes the best path Is the slow and watchful. Sometimes in the planning of strategy, for your life, brands and other enterprises, striking out the mapping of the path — moving forward: slow down and study the surroundings as you move forward. Pay close... Read More
