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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Retail | Apr 5, 2012
DIWO @ FAB! Digital Dimension shop, Tokyo, Japan — from Fablab/Japan Hiroya Tanaka & Chiaki Hayashi | Fabcafé / FabLab [co]founders and Fab[lab]Visionaries/p> A CRAFTWORKS Café — collaborative, exploratory, experimental, “hack cultural.”... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Feb 3, 2012
There’s a story about beautiful garbage, based on the idea of one person’s — a team — visioning of a litter free place. That being — an alley. In Seattle, the founder team came up with the notion of “dumpster free” alleys, by... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 24, 2012
the creative hunger, the force of passionate making raven, verb i"m thinking about the hunger that is beneath the hunger. I’m talking less about food and more about the notion of the food beneath food — that is, what drives the hunger itself?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 14, 2011
While you’re looking out, traveling the distant vista — a long road, the living running — the journey shall continue. And who said it would be easy? Craft, in the making of anything, building the outbound relationships to people, in the truth of it,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Nov 30, 2011
ROUGH TRADE #3 The Perfume of Refuse, Decomposition and Excrement (The third of three essays on unusual scent strategies) In the beginnings of Das Parfum, authored by Patrick Süskind, there is a grouping of expressions that I’d first read in the original German.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Nov 28, 2011
GALLERY VI | THE STATE OF WOWNESS* SOMETIMES, IT’S LESS ABOUT THE MERE “GO THIS WAY” [OR DON’T] AND MORE TO GO ANOTHER WAY, SCENE, SEEN, BEAUTY, TOUCHED. ARTFULLY, THIS PATH. AS A LONG RUNNING DESIGNER OF SHOPFRONTS, SIGNING SYSTEMS, LOOKING AT... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Nov 27, 2011
THE LAYERING OF TEXT | ALPHABET RHYTHMS | GALLERY V THE STATE OF WOWNESS* AS A PERPETUAL STUDENT OF THE ALPHABET, I’M PRONE TO EXAMINE THE MYSTERIES THAT LIE IN ITS STROKING — ONE STROKE, THE FIRST, IS A LINE. ONE LINE, BEGINS THE MARKING OF THE WHO, THE... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Nov 25, 2011
THE STATE OF WOWNESS* IF I’M THINKING ABOUT THE WAY, THE WALKING ROUTE — IT’S LIKE A LONG STRIDE TO THE SOMETHING THAT LIES AT THE END. THERE’S A RHYTHM, A SEQUENCING OF PILLARS THAT MARK THE TIME. STEP BY STEP. LOOKING UP, IT’S STEEP,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 11, 2011
ONE | ONE –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– THE ONE ON THE ONE. THE TEN AND THE ONE ALONE. ONE. ONE. ONE. ALL ONE. THE RHYTHM OF THE ONES, AND ALONENESS. Doing the one, the one to one, one million Billion = Ones Oneness | 1ness | the 1 + 1 ––– Sometimes I feel... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Nov 12, 2011
The Script of Screen | Macintosh logos, the Finger Stroke and the iDesign Environments iPad, iPhone, Air or Paper: drawing words like music Calligraphy, Steve Jobs and the Macintosh When I was working with Steve Jobs, the first job was drawing for, and with, the... Read More