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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 29, 2013
Hand-ground pigment, split timbers, scent and the explosive splatter of haboku. When I draw, my senses are open, the touch of the paper, the splintering of the wood, the sound — the gasp, the clasp, the rasp of the stroke of the brush on the stock. We worked on... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 26, 2013
Drawing People [in] with Flowers, the Flow of Story in the Craft of Rendering Ideas In my beginnings, I drew flowers — and sold them as art pieces and gifts; then, at Christmas, I did groupings of flowers, silkscreened and signed in limited editions of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Human brands | Apr 24, 2013
How are Designers, Creative Minds, Changed by Babies? Having met Tom Ford, albeit in a short quasi-interview and completely unscheduled encounter at a WWD | BEAUTY + FASHION CEO SUMMIT; I’ll admit that I was afraid [of him.] When I was working for YSL, I was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2013
While I was walking in the woods, the ancient layers told me their stories. [Image above by Justin Kern, altered by Dawn Clark, AIA, LEED AP] When I was young, in NY, my parents took me to the New York City Museum of Natural History [AMNS.] This was a whim reaching to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Apr 1, 2013
The Book as Sensate Storyteller It’s been said that the book is the most perfectly designed object for “reading.” That is according to earlier conversations with book and type design legend, Bill Hill, typographic theorist and book / tablet reading... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 15, 2013
The symbolism of the window Thinking design / portals of storytelling / brand / story / insight. In the window to experience, you see in: in=sight. In the window to the object: circumspect — you walk around, surveil from the circumference. In the window to the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 8, 2013
The writing of the eternal return: the perpetual script of spinning time When you contemplate the road forward, there’s a chance to look back, the path that brought you to where you are. [image above, from http://mattgirvin.org/] It’s difficult work, when... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Scent | Jan 31, 2013
The waft of scent and memory — deep fragrances from the earth, the forest, dark smoke and fire I was so dirty, with scent: the power of perfume, dirt, darkness and memory Lying on my bed, in a darkened bedroom, painted a deep, raven-dark purple, I was looking at... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Places, Scent | Jan 24, 2013
When you see something, does a scent come to mind? Sensing synaesthesia — the sensation of perfumed visualization. For a long time, we’ve been fascinated by the idea of hearing color, tasting sound, touching scent — the notion, rather the condition,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 11, 2013
REAL SERIOUS — AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Someone said, “this is real serious” and I contemplated that, the meaning. Looking at words, I wonder, what does that really mean? Seriously. What it comes back to, etymologically, is... Read More
