by Tim Girvin | Cool People | Sep 5, 2008
A sense of experience in design, vision, luxury: touchpoint management “Architecture has been…presumably practical, economic executions of so many square feet of floor with lots of machinery… very little for the whole human being – places where one...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 4, 2008
IN THE 70’s. Or — HOW I WENT BACK TO THE ROOTS OF MY BEGINNINGS The 70s. That’s when I started working as a designer. And a lot of the early work is about supporting other agencies. Ad agencies. When I began — when I first started working...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People | Sep 2, 2008
Brand, story, environments — what story told? I’ve not met Zaha Hadid, but I’ve had an early connection with her, decades back — and followed her work closely since that time. My first connection with her was working with Jim Olson and his team...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Sep 1, 2008
Several years ago I got a call from Paramount Studios to work on a project for JJ Abrams. I’d never heard of him, embarrassingly enough. Nancy Goliger, EVP of Advertising, told me to check out his TV shows, “Lost” and “Alias”. I watched...
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Aug 18, 2008
Any brand is human. A brand fire is started by a person. It comes from a human spirit and mind: it’s made for humans. Human brand. Interestingly enough, this simple equation is sometimes forgotten. People focus on transactions, engineering commerce — and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 7, 2008
8*8*8*8 — weaving numbers & ideas, energy & good fortune, art & architecture. Reflections on the design of Herzog & DeMeuron and the Asian Basket collection at Girvin | Seattle. I’ve made some notes in the past on the concept of the...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People | Aug 4, 2008
Examining the identity, specificity in design, architectures of light — and the creation of place-making: holding and containment in space. This blog is a journey. I find myself exploring architecture a great deal. Pretty much, all the time. What I’m...
by Tim Girvin | General, Scent | Jul 24, 2008
Examining the line between design, fragrance and the mystery of making. There’s a mystery between the concept of design, creativity and the magic of concocting and sequencing outcomes, whether in the visualization of clothing, style, or in the mystery of...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Jul 23, 2008
I went to see what Christian Chabot, CEO of Tableau Software, has been thinking about. Someone in the blogosphere alluded to Tableau becoming the new Apple. What’s that? But rather, I believe that it is the attitude of Apple — that’s new. It’s...
by Tim Girvin | Designers | Jul 23, 2008
Notes on making typography by hand, for perfectly tailored applications — a Girvin legacy. For decades, Girvin has been making typefaces by hand, completely customized to our client project applications. It’s a story that is surely understood internally...
