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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 24, 2013
Go You To The Shadow World? It’s never about what you see in clarity alone, but what lies behind the Light. Certainty is never assured in anything. As a designer, when I’m working on a project, or a photo shoot, a story, a piece of writing, I watch for the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 5, 2013
The Beauty of the Mindless Walking a construction site, I was studying the siting notes and install corrections. What I note, in watching the drawings, writings and notations of others is that in that sense of mindlessness. The doodle, the swirl, the twist, the check... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Jul 16, 2013
In the Journey, who is your companion? Who is your guardian, your guide, your icon, your shepherding guide? Me? Raven and crow, telling. We’ve noted in an earlier blog study, that we’ve been involved in the Lone Ranger, as designers, in the past —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 6, 2013
AND THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL, IN THE SPATTERING OF INSPIRATION. When I was in college, I taught workshops to help my payment of the tuition, along with support from my family. I used variously colored butcher paper to do that — pulled, ripped out and sheared on a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Interior Design, Places | Mar 18, 2013
Making a Statement of Identity in the Procession of Experience. Sometimes, as a designer, one cuts to the chase and puts the story right there, out in front. Big. So too the dynamism of Scott Brownrigg’s designed installation of monster identity in the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 22, 2013
The notes of time, presented as a script to presence Are you here, awake, reading the runes on the wall, cast before you? When you look at the walls, what language, what telling, what stories are told to you? I was thinking about the end of the world, as we know it,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling, Trends | Jan 16, 2013
The Letter form and the Design of Talismans Over the past several months, I’ve been talking to a younger person about the idea of the place of magic in a sub-current of popular culture [Supernatural;] in a manner, the interest in magic is an ever-popular... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Dec 28, 2012
Fire & Water Isn’t it so that the making of spirit — the ethanol-effused outcomes of herbal, vegetal, fruit-based titration and filtration — the quintessential search for the soul of boosted and intense flavoring — is one of perpetual... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands | Dec 26, 2012
When I was in Bhutan, high in the misted Himalayan mountains, I’d spied a remote monastery and spoke to my guide, Tsewang Nidup about “getting up there.” We did get up there, like nearly every other lonely vista we aspired to summit —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Dec 14, 2012
Doing goodness. Surely, some do. Sometimes the celebration of goodness would seem the higher calling, in the flurry of the unrelenting challenges we face. Video, here. From our friends at PSFK: In the words of Fernando Semenzato, SVP of Content for FOX International... Read More
